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Google Leaders Discuss YouTube, Yahoo Plans At Annual Talks
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:39 pm on May 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Google plans to make increased profitability at its YouTube video-sharing Web site the top priority during the rest of 2008, brought about by new advertising techniques for the service, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
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Google Expands Global iPhone Service and Mobile Applications
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:01 pm on May 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has expanded its custom user interface for Apple Computer's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices to include users in 33 countries using 16 different languages, and added better support for its news aggregation and Google Apps Web applications to the Apple devices.
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Google Reports Strong First Quarter Earnings Exceeding Forecast
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:57 pm on April 17, 2008 (utc 0)
Google today announced strong earnings led by first quarter gross revenue of $5.19 billion, exceeding forecasts with an increase of 42 percent over the same quarter in 2007, and an increase in net profit of 31 percent, results that are likely to help ease recent Wall Street concerns that Google has become more susceptible to the economic downturn.
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Business Software Maker Salesforce Expands Web Application Partnership With Google
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:07 pm on April 14, 2008 (utc 0)
San Francisco-based online business software maker Salesforce.com Inc. has expanded a partnership with Internet search giant Google, allowing its sales and marketing software to more easily integrate with Google's Web-based application suite, Salesforce announced Monday.
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Google Hires Qatalyst Group To Advise On Yahoo
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:21 pm on April 11, 2008 (utc 0)
Google and its chief executive Eric E. Schmidt have hired the Qatalyst Group and its leader Frank P. Quattrone, who was cleared of obstruction of justice charges last year, to help advise Google regarding the two-month-old Microsoft battle for control of Yahoo.
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Google Opens Its Infrastructure With Free Web Hosting Service
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:18 am on April 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has opened up its vast cloud computing infrastructure resources to developers looking to build and host their Web applications, with a preview free base version of a new service called the Google App Engine.
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Google Says It Succeeded In Bidding Up FCC Spectrum Auction
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:36 pm on April 4, 2008 (utc 0)
Google had only a cursory interest in winning the federal spectrum auction that concluded last month, and primarily hoped to drive bids high enough to trigger provisions ensuring more open access to any future service using a key group of the airwaves, Google revealed Thursday.
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Google Feature Competes Directly With Microsoft Word, Online Or Not
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:14 pm on April 1, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has added the ability to use its free word processing software Google Docs without an Internet connection, the company announced Monday, placing it in direct competition with Microsoft staple Word.
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YouTube Adds Insight Free Video Metrics Tool
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:13 pm on Mar. 27, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has added a free metrics feature to its popular video sharing service YouTube, which will allow video creators to see when and where viewers are watching their videos, the company announced Wednesday as it launched its new YouTube Insight service.
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Google Renews Pressure On Free Airwaves Plan
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:24 am on Mar. 26, 2008 (utc 0)
Google renewed pressure on regulators to approve a "white-space" plan that would allow mobile Web devices to operate at high speeds on unused portions of airwaves between television signals in late 2009 after broadcasters convert to digital delivery, filing an open letter with the Federal Communications Commission.
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Losing FCC Auction Battle to Verizon and AT&T, Google May Win War
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:15 pm on Mar. 21, 2008 (utc 0)
Verizon Communications and AT&T may have won the battle by acquiring the two most sought after portions of wireless spectrum during the Federal Communications Commission auction that ended Tuesday with $19.12 billion in total bids, however Internet search leader Google may have won the war.
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Google Adds New Developer Tools To YouTube
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:14 pm on Mar. 12, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has added several free developer tools to its popular video sharing service YouTube, which will allow greater integration of the site's videos with other Web sites and the ability to upload new videos and control YouTube accounts from any Web location.
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Google Gets E.U. Go-Ahead For DoubleClick Merger
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:57 pm on Mar. 11, 2008 (utc 0)
The Brussels-based European Commission approved Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, saying in an announcement Tuesday that the merger will not hurt competition for online ads.
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New Google Sites Service For Easy Creation and Sharing of Web Sites
Lane_R_Ellis, 1:08 am on Feb. 29, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has announced a new online service, called Google Sites, that allows consumers or teams of people to easily create, share and collaborate on media-rich Web sites, in an addition to the company's year-old collection of free online applications executive Dave Girouard likens to "literally adding an edit button to the Web."
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Google Trio Made Pact, Now Profits Up 51 Percent
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:03 pm on Jan. 31, 2008 (utc 0)
Before taking their Internet search engine company public, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page joined chief executive Eric Schmidt in adding an unusual pact to the firms prospectus that stated the three pledged to work there together through at least 2024, and four years into that commitment the firm today announced fourth quarter revenue of $4.83 billion, an increase of 51 percent over the same quarter in 2006.
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Google Eyeing Malaysia For World's Largest Server Farm
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:18 pm on Jan. 28, 2008 (utc 0)
Google is considering Malaysia as the location for a forthcoming Southeast Asia server farm and operations center, according to Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who spoke with Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt during the World Economic Forum taking place in Davos, Switzerland.
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Google Reveals Partnership with Advertising Giant Publicis
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:00 am on Jan. 24, 2008 (utc 0)
Google revealed an ongoing partnership with Paris-based global advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA begun over a year ago for the purpose of improving advertising using the search firm's technology, chief executives from the two companies disclosed Tuesday at an informal press meeting in Paris.
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Clearwire Inks Web Applications Deal with Google
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:07 pm on Jan. 16, 2008 (utc 0)
Clearwire has signed an agreement with Google that will give its 350,000 wireless customers access to the search leader's popular Web applications suite including GMail and Google Calendar, along with the Google Talk instant messaging service, the firms announced Tuesday in a joint statement.
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Google Launches New Features for Surging iPhone at MacWorld
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:24 am on Jan. 15, 2008 (utc 0)
Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader Google launched an improved suite of mobile Web applications for users of Apple's iPhone at the MacWorld conference Monday in San Francisco.
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Appeals Court OKs Google's AdSense, But Not AutoLink
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:06 pm on Dec. 27, 2007 (utc 0)
A federal appeals court Wednesday handed Google a mixed decision, determining that while the Internet search giant's successful AdSense contextual Web advertising system has not infringed on two patents held by Wisconsin-based Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC, two of three claims related to Google's browser toolbar AutoLink feature must go back to the Wisconsin district courts.
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Google Clears Final U.S. Hurdle in DoubleClick Purchase
Lane_R_Ellis, 5:41 pm on Dec. 21, 2007 (utc 0)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave its approval to Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader Google's $3.1 billion purchase of top online advertising company DoubleClick, saying that the deal was "unlikely to substantially lessen competition" among online advertisers, and shifting focus to the remaining European regulatory investigations the merger faces.
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Google-DoubleClick Merger Facing More Opposition
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:57 pm on Dec. 18, 2007 (utc 0)
Google is facing opposition to its $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, as the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy cited privacy concerns during a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters.
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Google Launches Wikipedia-like "Knol" Web Encyclopedia
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:49 pm on Dec. 14, 2007 (utc 0)
Mountain View, California-based search leader Google has announced a new user-generated Web encyclopedia project dubbed "Knol," that will rival the most popular online reference work Wikipedia.
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Google's DoubleClick Response to Congressman "Chilly"
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:05 pm on Dec. 13, 2007 (utc 0)
Representative Joe Barton of Texas, a senior lawmaker and member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee currently looking into Mountain View, California-based Google's $3.1 billion purchase of New York-based online advertising company DoubleClick, has called the Internet search giant's response to requests from two of his aides "chilly" and "disconcerting."
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Google's Free GPS For Mobile Users
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:18 pm on Nov. 29, 2007 (utc 0)
Google has announced a GPS-like feature in the new version of its free Google Maps for mobile application, using cell phone tower information to show where a person is and to find nearby services and attractions.
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Google's Green Gigawatt Renewable Energy Plan
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:52 pm on Nov. 28, 2007 (utc 0)
Mountain View, California-based Google has announced an initiative to produce inexpensive electricity from renewable energy sources, and plans to invest over $200 million in projects promoting wind, solar, geothermal and other potential breakthrough technologies.
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Google's $4.6+ Billion Wireless Spectrum Bid
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:34 pm on Nov. 16, 2007 (utc 0)
Winning January FCC Auction Could Allow Google Mobile Phone and Internet Services. Internet search leader Google is ready to bid at least $4.6 billion in a January Federal Communications Commission auction for a portion of wireless spectrum it could use to provide mobile phone and Internet services, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the situation.
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Google's Gaming Grab
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:00 pm on Nov. 9, 2007 (utc 0)
Search Leader Testing Video Game Ad Delivery System. Internet search and advertising leader Google said Thursday that it is working on methods to display ads in computer games, expanding on the approach used by AdScape Media, an in-game advertising firm it purchased in February for $23 million.
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Fill Up with Google and Get Directions
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:12 pm on Nov. 7, 2007 (utc 0)
Gas pumps to go online with Google Local Search and Maps. Online search leader Google today announced a partnership with Greensboro, North Carolina-based gas pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root that will make Google's mapping and driving directions available at roughly 3,500 gas stations and convenience stores across the United States beginning in early December.
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Google's Sweeping Open Handset Alliance and Android Platform
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:58 pm on Nov. 5, 2007 (utc 0)
Defiant 34 Company Plan Pits Google Against Closed Cell Phones. Internet search leader Google today announced its mobile device platform, called Android, and an ambitious multinational initiative called the Open Handset Alliance, which together represent the company's serious and long awaited entrance into the mobile device market.
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Google's OpenSocial Framework Takes On MySpace and Facebook
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:19 am on Oct. 31, 2007 (utc 0)
Google's Initiative to Program-it-Once and Share it Throughout Social Networking Spectrum. The Internet's leading search company Google is rolling out a framework that will allow over 100 million people to easily combine their online identities and profiles from social networking Web sites and seamlessly use the information at a limitless number of other Web sites, in a program to be released Thursday called Google OpenSocial.
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Google-powered Cell Phone Details Expected Soon
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:06 am on Oct. 30, 2007 (utc 0)
The world's largest Internet search company Google is preparing to announce an ambitious plan to bring the company's Web applications and services such as Google Maps, GMail and YouTube to cell phones, according to an article published today in the Wall Street Journal. Cell phone makers are expected to have Google-powered handsets available by the middle of 2008 according to the article, which cites people familiar with the situation.
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Google's TV Ad Deal with The Nielsen Company
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:28 pm on Oct. 24, 2007 (utc 0)
Leading Internet search company Google today announced a partnership with media firm The Neilsen Company which will further expand the search leader's reach beyond the Web. The strategic relationship between the two companies will allow Google to incorporate television ratings and demographic information into its Google TV Ads™ network for managing national advertising campaigns. Google seems determined to do what it can to dominate television advertising the way it has with online ads.
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EU Intensifies Focus on Google's DoubleClick Purchase
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:45 pm on Oct. 22, 2007 (utc 0)
In Brussels, Belgium today the European Commission said that is will extend until November 13, 2007 its decision on whether to give approval to Internet search leader Google's $3.1 billion bid for online advertising tracker DoubleClick, postponing a decision which had been expected from regulators by this Friday's October 26 deadline.
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Google Growth Pace Quickens
Lane_R_Ellis, 6:39 pm on Oct. 20, 2007 (utc 0)
Internet search and advertising giant Google has reported skyrocketing financial increases for the third quarter ending on September 30, 2007, further increasing the sizable lead it has had on rival competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft.In an online advertising market seeing steady gains, Google stands far clear of the nearest challenger with growth rates twice that of the category average. Compared with last year's third quarter performance Google's net income has increased by 46 percent.
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Google's New Cutting-Edge Video Copyright System for YouTube
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:57 am on Oct. 16, 2007 (utc 0)
Internet search giant Google is working to stop the proliferation of illegal online video content. The company's YouTube Web site, which it purchased last year in a stock deal worth 1.65 billion dollars, has been rife with illegally posted videos taken from commercial media companies since even before Google's purchase. On Monday Google officially released an ambitious and much-anticipated tool for combating illegally posted video content, an endeavor in the beta testing stage called YouTube Video Identification.
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Google Introduces News Blog
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:13 pm on June 22, 2007 (utc 0)
Leading Internet search engine company Google introduced a new blog yesterday called Google News Blog, aimed at providing information about the company’s Google News service in a more informal way than through the use of traditional press releases.
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Google’s New Public Policy Blog
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:10 am on June 18, 2007 (utc 0)
Today leading Internet search engine company Google launched a blog dealing with the company’s views on public policy, government and politics. The blog, complete with a stylized image of a non-descript white government building, has been used privately by the company for the past several months.
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Google Privacy Practices Rank Lowest
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:50 am on June 11, 2007 (utc 0)
Leading Internet search engine Google has received the lowest possible rating for privacy practices, according to a detailed report released Friday by Privacy International, a global organization working for the protection of privacy.
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