Google Co-Founder Invests in Space Tourism
According to various reports, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company. Furthermore, Brin has expressed interest in going into orbit himself...
Coincidence or Not? Google App Engine Blocks PayPal
The Google App Engine, the search giant’s new platform for building and hosting 3rd party web apps, is blocking applications from integrating with PayPal for...
Bad SEO Techniques That Will Hurt Your Google Rankings
What good is a site if no one can find it? That’s one of the basic premises behind search engine optimization, or as it is...
Google Under Fire Over Privacy Policy
Earlier this week, consumer groups requested that Google make its privacy policy more visible, making the argument that under California law the company is required...
Yahoo Turned Down Microsoft $40 Share Buyout in 2007
There was apparently much more to the Microsoft-Yahoo merger story than many of us knew. Today the Wall Street Journal reports that a judge unsealed...
Google Says Android Will Be 100% Open Source
While there were some reports floating around that parts of Android might not be as open source as original thought, Google has come out and...
MBA Students Are Dying to Get in at Google
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...
Google Says Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube Threatens Freedom
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...
Google Shares Orkut Information With Indian Government
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...
Facebook CEO Wants Google Sit Down to Discuss Friend Connect
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...
Icahn Wants to Take Over Yahoo
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...
Google Now #1 Web Destination, Beats Yahoo
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...
Google Rolls Out Web Security for Mobile Enterprise
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...
Google Founders Would Love to Expand Partnership With Yahoo
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...
Google Comes Out On Top After Yahoo Microsoft Saga
Microsoft’s failed attempt at taking over Yahoo might be one of the best things that could have happened for one of both companies’ rival –...
Google Joins Venture for Mobile WiMAX Next-Gen Wireless Internet Access
Google has teamed up with a number of partners investing in a new venture to develop and deliver high-speed WiMAX internet access for mobile devices. ...
Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Pulls Bid
After Microsoft pulled their $47.5 billion takeover bid on Monday, shares of Yahoo plummeted more than 16 percent in late morning bidding, nearly wiping out...
Microsoft Reveals its Strategies for Yahoo
On Thursday during a meeting with staff, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that the company has three options available to them with regards to Yahoo,...
Microsoft Raising Bid on Yahoo Takeover
After the deadline passed last weekend for Yahoo to accept Microsoft’s takeover bid, many were left wondering what Microsoft would do next. This week, Microsoft...
Private Detective Sues Google for “Unwanted” Ads
Another day, another lawsuit. David Almeida, a private detective, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that hundreds of thousands of companies that have signed...
Deadline Passes with No Deal Struck: Will Microsoft Continue to Fight for Yahoo?
Three months ago Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., and today they are no closer to acquiring the company than they...
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles to Brazillian Authorities
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted...
EU Report Encourages Search Engines to Erase Personal Data After Six Months
Last week, a European Union privacy panel issued a report urging search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN to delete data taken from...
Google Wants to Index Genetic Information, Invests in Second DNA Start-Up
In 2007, Google made headlines when they invested $4.4 million in 23andMe, a genetic screening start-up company began by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google...
Google Likes Working With Yahoo
Two major search engine companies that also offer a variety of competing services: can they be friendly and work side-by-side? In the case of Yahoo...
Google Applies Copyright-ID Technology to Fight Child Porn Online
Google has been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s program for just about a year to help the agency revolutionize the...
Google About to Make TV Ads Public
While its certainly not any new news that Google has been testing out television ads, what is new is that they are about ready to...
Google Experimenting with Technology to Index HTML Forms
Googlers Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy, members of the Crawling and Indexing team, recently indicated that Google has been testing out some HTML forms to...
Soon You’ll Be Able to Play “Where’s Waldo” in Google Earth
Melanie Cole, a Canadian artirst, has launched a new project called “Where on Earth is Waldo?”, putting a new twist on an age-old game. Instead...
Legg Mason to Help Yahoo Fight Microsoft Takeover
If Microsoft lowers the value of its offer to buy Yahoo, Legg Mason has indicated that they will back Yahoo’s efforts to ward off a take over and...