Julie Kent

MBA Students Are Dying to Get in at Google

May 27th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 1 Comment

Upon graduation, the dream of many MBA students is to snag a job at Google.  Yep, that’s right - Google.  For the second year in a row, Google has become the most coveted employer of MBA grads, beating out expected favorites of investment banks and consulting firms.  A survey found that 23.65% of those students […]

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Google Says Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Threatens Freedom

May 27th, 2008 by Julie Kent | No Comments

According to Google Inc., a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit brought against YouTube by Viacom Inc. threatens to drastically alter the way hundreds of millions of people share all kinds of information on the Internet.  The claim was made in papers filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, as Google responded to Viacom’s latest […]

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Google Shares Orkut Information With Indian Government

May 19th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 8 Comments

Be careful what you do on Orkut, Google may not be willing to protect your privacy, depending on where you live. On Monday Google revealed that it complied with Indian legal processes when handing over information about an Orkut user to Indian police.
By supplying the IP address of an individual who is alleged to […]

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Facebook CEO Wants Google Sit Down to Discuss Friend Connect

May 19th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 1 Comment

Last week the popular social networking site Facebook blocked Google’s new service, Friend Connect, due to privacy concerns. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says that he’d like to sit down and talk with Google and work out some of these issues.
Google Friend Connect allows website owners to add social networking functions to their own […]

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Icahn Wants to Take Over Yahoo

May 15th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 2 Comments

Microsoft may have walked away from the table in negotiations with Yahoo for a takeover deal, but just because they’ve pulled their bid, that doesn’t mean the takeover talks have ended. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn lauched a proxy war to unseat Yahoo’s current board of directors, and unveiled an alternate board of directors for the […]

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Google Now #1 Web Destination, Beats Yahoo

May 15th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 2 Comments

For the longest time, Yahoo was the U.S.’s most-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine.  That has, however, changed.  Google is now both the country’s top-visited website as well as the most popular search engine.
Losing the title surely is a disappointment to Yahoo, who are currently trying to turn around their company […]

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Google Adds Privacy to StreetView, Blurs Faces

May 14th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 1 Comment

Google has begun rolling out new technology that will bring a layer of privacy to their controversial Street Views product that was previously unavailable. The technology automatically blurs out any human face appearing in the service’s street-level photos, which were taken by camera-mounted vehicles.
The face blurring technology will be applied to all existing Street […]

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Google to Launch New Video Ads on YouTube

May 12th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 5 Comments

During a television interview last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that Google will soon be launching a series of new products for YouTube, in an effort to make its video-sharing service profitable.  Up until now, Google hasn’t been successful in generating income from the site, and getting the site to make money is the […]

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Google Rolls Out Web Security for Mobile Enterprise

May 9th, 2008 by Julie Kent | No Comments

Google is getting serious about its push into the enterprise arena.  On Thursday the company announced the launch of a new comprehensive security offering geared towards the mobile enterprise environment - an mobile add-on to their existing Google Web Security for Enterprise product.
Google Web Security for Enterprise is an all-inclusive package designed to protect enterprise […]

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Google Founders Would Love to Expand Partnership With Yahoo

May 9th, 2008 by Julie Kent | 3 Comments

Google really wants to make sure that Microsoft won’t get their hands on rival Yahoo.  So much so that they’re willing to enter and expand an advertising partnership with Yahoo, that may prevent Microsoft from renewing any bids for the company in the future. 
By making sure that Yahoo does well, Google is ensuring that it won’t fall […]

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