Google Earth Puts UN Refugee Camps in the Spotlight
Google Earth has kicked off a new program known as “Google Earth Outreach”, which now shows close-up views of United Nations refugee camps and aid projects in order...
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Another Google Exec Jumps Ship, This Time Its the CIO
Google has lost yet another top member of its executive team. This time it is Chief Information Officer (CIO) Douglas Merrill, who will be joining...
Google & the Government: How Close Are They?
Ever since Google became the dominant leader in the search sector, there have been rumblings about alleged connections with the U.S. government and the whole...
Google Loses Another Top Exec to Facebook
In just one month, Google has lost two top executives to the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. First it was Sheryl Sandberg, a Google...
Google Android Phone to be Released By Summer?
Google first unveiled the Android mobile phone operating system in November 2007, and in recent months they’ve been showing the phone off to various media...
Yahoo HotJobs Launches New Search Algorithm
Yahoo issued a press release today announcing the launch of a new search ranking algorithm to be used with their HotJobs service. They’ve named the...
Will Apple’s Push of Safari with iTunes Cut into Mozilla’s Google Money?
When you update iTunes, Apple pushes their Safari browser to you. It’s not all that surprising that they’d want to do this, considering they now...
Microsoft & Yahoo Both Lose Ground to Google, Would Teaming Up Even Help?
Microsoft is still gunning for Yahoo in hopes that by acquiring the company they’d be able to take on and seriously compete with Google in...
Google Denied EU-Wide Trademark on Gmail Name
Google Inc. lost their recent bid to obtain European Union-wide trademark protection for the term “Gmail”, the name of their web mail service. According to...
Google: Bots Haven’t Broken Our Captchas Yet
As the amount of spam coming from Gmail accounts has been increasing in recent months, some have suggested that spammers have come up with a...
Top Google Exec Donates $3 Million to SJSU Engineering Dept.
Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales & business development, has made a generous $3 million donation to his alma mater, San Jose...
Google to Hold Web 2.0 Developer Event in May
This week, Google announced that it will be holding a developers event in May that will cover a variety of topics as related to “Web...
Google Expects to be “Very Significant” in Display Advertising
Google have all but conquered contextual-based advertising and are the clear leader in that area, however, they’ve yet to take the top spot in another...
Decreasing Click Rates on AdSense are Intentional
After a recent ComScore report indicated that the paid click rates for Google AdSense had dropped 12% year-over-year, and 7% from last December, Google felt...
Google Gives in to Pentagon Demands to Remove Images of Military Bases
After detailed, street-level photographs of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas appeared in Google’s controversial “Street View”, the Pentagon acted quickly to have the...
Yahoo Bid Costs Bill Gates the #1 Spot on Forbes’ Rich List
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person. He lost that title today, after having held onto it for an astounding 13...
Googlers Bet on Internal Company Products, Win Cool Stuff Like T-Shirts and Cash
For the past two and a half years, Google has been asking its employees to make their predictions and bets on everything from their perception...
Microsoft’s Bill Gates Slams Google Apps
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates doesn’t like Google, and never misses an opportunity to take a dig at them. In his latest jab at the Mountain...
Google VP is New Facebook COO
Sheryl Sandberg, the Vice President of Global Online Sales & at Google for six years, has deflected to Facebook where she will serve as their...
Yahoo Unveils New Tool for Mobile Content Management
Continuing their efforts in the mobile realm, Yahoo surprised us today with the launch of onePlace, a mobile application that aggregates and filters content for...
Tellme to Yahoo: Don’t Worry About Microsoft Takeover
Over the weekend, the AP ran a story about Tellme, a Silicon Valley company which makes the technology behind directory assistance and other voice-controlled services...
Future of Ask.com? Layoffs, but keeping Teoma
Last week it was rumored that there would soon be some big shake-ups over at IAC’s Ask.com, including layoffs and the possible abandonment of Teoma,...
Yahoo Faces Second Lawsuit from Chinese Dissidents
Yahoo Inc. has been sued by a group of Chinese political activists who claim that the company aided the Chinese government in tracking the online...
Yahoo: Microsoft Bid Has Been a Distraction
On Wednesday in the company’s annual report, Yahoo admitted that its executives have been distracted by Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition bid, and indicated the possibility that...
Google to Invest in Undersea Cable
Google, along with five other telcom companies, is investing $300 million into the construction of an 10,000 km undersea cable to carry data to and...
Pension Funds Sue Yahoo for Stalling Microsoft Takeover
Two U.S. pension funds have now sued Yahoo over their efforts to thwart off a Microsoft takeover, and instead entertain less profitable alternatives. The lawsuit...
Hackers Release Google Vulnerability Scanner
A group of hackers known as “Cult of the Dead Cow” recently released a Google Web auditing scanner that allows users to search a specific...
Yahoo Moves to Protect Staff in Takeover Battle with Microsoft
Microsoft has made their intentions about taking over Yahoo very clear, and are determined to succeed. Yahoo, perhaps sensing the inevitable at this point, has...
Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google for Health Records Management
The world renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System announced Wednesday that are teaming up with Google to test out a new online medical record service, which...
Google & Microsoft Sued in Paid Search Related Patent Case
Last week an Ohio company filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Google, alleging infringement on a patent related to paid search methods. The lawsuit was...