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Should Google be running scared from Apple? CNNOverheard When Tim Armstrong left Google to head AOL in early 2009, many thought he was inheriting a basket case. Revenue and traffic were dropping as dial-up subscribers defected. But AOL's shares are up 47% since its late 2009 spinoff from Time Warner, beating Nasdaq's 43% gain and trouncing Yahoo's 3.5% decline. AOL has even outperformed Mr. Armstrong's former employer, up only 17%. His secret? Deals. Despite an expensive Huffington Post deal, Mr. Armstrong's coup was selling off the family silver, a portfolio of patents, for $1.1 billion. Monday, it said how it would return the cash to shareholders. That said, AOL still has to show it can stabilize its share of U.S. display advertising, which ThinkEquity puts below 5% and falling. So investors shouldn't get carried away with the idea of fellow Google alumnus Marissa Mayer pulling off the same trick at ailing Yahoo, which now says it may reverse a decision to return more than $4 billion to shareholders. That's the gist of Google's message following Apple's $1 billion victory over Samsung in a California patent suit. The search giant is doing its best to quell fears that its Android operating system could be the next target for Apple's lawyers. And you ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Uses Its Home Page to Push Nexus 7 Tablet New York Times (blog) Google is running an ad on Google.com for the Nexus 7, its 7-inch, $199 tablet computer that competes with the Kindle Fire. It shows the tablet popping up from what looks like a slit cut through the home page and announces, “The playground is open. See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Google Reinstates Controversial Music-Streaming App Grooveshark Wall Street Journal (blog) More than a year after Google Inc. removed the controversial Grooveshark music-streaming service from its app store for Android smartphones, the app was quietly reinstated Tuesday afternoon, despite ongoing copyright infringement lawsuits against the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google-rola agrees to license 3G-related patents to Apple in Germany Ars Technica Google may be distancing itself from Motorola Mobility's previous claims that standards-essential 3G wireless patents are lethal "bullets" it can aim in the direction of its competitors. In particular, Motorola Mobility—now a Google-owned subsidiary ... See all stories on this topic » Ars Technica

'Google Earth pyramids' revisited NBCNews.com (blog) "The features in Google images are well-known since 1925, when they were surveyed by G. Caton-Thompson and E.W. Gardner," Paola Davoli, an Egyptologist at Italy's University of Salento and co-director of the Soknopaiou Nesos Project, told me in an ... See all stories on this topic » NBCNews.com (blog)

Google Wallet Will Store Boarding Passes One Day NBC Southern California (blog) In its current state, Google Wallet is a handy mobile payment system that lets you buy things with your NFC-enabled smartphone. In the future, Google would like Wallet to replace more than just your cash and credit cards. The company wants Wallet to be ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Makes Voter Registration Easy With TurboVote Partnership ABC News (blog) Today Google announced the launch of its Online Voter Guide, a portal that allows Google users to register to vote easily. In addition to its YouTube Elections Hub and its Google Politics & Elections site, this page will provide easy access to ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News (blog)

Google launches crisis map anticipating hurricane Isaac Fox News "When disaster strikes, people turn to the Internet for information," explains Google's Crisis Response project, an offshoot of the of the Google.org philanthropy arm, which aims to aid in times of need. The forecast track for Isaac has the storm aimed ... See all stories on this topic »

Google will now bug you with birthdays like Facebook does Los Angeles Times Google has begun to show birthday reminders on search results for people in users' Google+ circles. The company told The Los Angeles Times that it is beginning to roll out the new features to users over the next few days. Users will see reminders when ... See all stories on this topic »

Time Warner Cable invests $25M to build 1Gbps fiber network CNET Time Warner Cable invests $25M to build 1Gbps fiber network. Time Warner Cable is following Google's lead with a 1Gbps fiber network in New York City, except Time Warner will focus on business customers and it hasn't yet announced pricing. Marguerite ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung Case Puts Apple Closer to Google Fight New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Steven P. Jobs minced no words when talking about Android, Google's mobile operating system, which he saw as too similar to the iPhone's. He told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, that Android was “a stolen product” and said, “I'm ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times Google girds for battle in wake of Apple's legal victory Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. bought ailing mobile device maker Motorola Mobility this year to stockpile patents for the war that was heating up with rival Apple Inc. But those patents may not be much help in defending challenges to its Android mobile ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times Hisense taps Google TV set-top box market with $99 Pulse CNET Like other Google set-top boxes, the Pulse will offer access to content on YouTube, Netflix, and Pandora and comes preloaded with Google TV apps like Chrome, Google Play, and Search. The Pulse will feature a double-sided remote control with a touchpad ... See all stories on this topic » Google Names Names in Oracle Case But Denies Paying Bloggers PC Magazine The new list includes "all commenters known by Google to have received payments as consultants, contractors, vendors, or employees," as well as commenters employed by organizations that receive money from Google, according to a document filed Friday ... See all stories on this topic » Tracking Isaac with Google's crisis map Los Angeles Times Tropical Storm Isaac appears to be making a beeline for New Orleans and the southern coast of Louisiana. And the National Weather service warns that by the time the storm makes landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday, it will no longer be a tropical ... See all stories on this topic » Postini Competitors Go After Google's Customers PCWorld However, Google maintains that it's going about this migration in way that will let it retain its Postini clients. "We don't want to lose these customers," said Adam Swidler, a senior manager with Google's Enterprise division. Postini is used to ... See all stories on this topic » Hottest bar in Tampa: Google's free espresso bar Washington Post (blog) The hottest bar at the Convention Center was Google's espresso bar, which is giving out free designer caffeine to anyone with a credential. The web behemoth teamed up with the RNC and will repeat the perk at the DNC convention; lines started at 9 a.m ... See all stories on this topic » Yael T. Abouhalkah | Google Fiber problems become more evident Kansas City Star With two weeks to go to register for Google Fiber service, some questions about the well-publicized initiative are crystallizing with more Kansas Citians. Yes, the digital divide that people thought was out there really exists: People in low-income ... See all stories on this topic » Google Now Feeling More Than Just Lucky eWeek Then Google introduced the Instant predictive search feature, providing cascading query answers in the results box as the user types in a search. That made search refinement even better, leaving the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to become a second thought ... See all stories on this topic » Google Translate 2.5 (for Android) PC Magazine Pros Clean, simple user interface. Fast. Stable. Voice dictation. Accepts input from text, voice, and optical character recognition (camera), depending on language. Cons Very few languages accept all three input methods. Optical character recognition ... See all stories on this topic »

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Rich Karlgaard: Apple's Lawsuit Sent a Message to Google Wall Street Journal By RICH KARLGAARD. Last week Apple made headlines twice. On Monday it broke the world record for shareholder value. Apple's $623.5 billion market cap beat Microsoft's record from tech's notorious bubble era. (Microsoft needed a price-to-earnings ratio ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal Verizon and Sprint kill the Google Nexus experience, stick with GSM model ZDNet Google revealed Jelly Bean in June and then back in early July the update started rolling out to GSM/HSPA+ devices. Thus, AT&T and T-Mobile customers are able to experience Jelly Bean on their Galaxy Nexus, just as intended for the Nexus line. See all stories on this topic » Google Patents Smart Glove Design Tom's Hardware Guide On August 21, Google was granted a patent called "Seeing with your hand." It describes a glove packed with electronics including cameras on the fingertips, a compass, gyroscopes, accelerometers and other motion detectors embedded in the fingers. See all stories on this topic » Google online maps embark on Arctic adventure Business Recorder (blog) Google set out August 22 to take users of its free online mapping service on an Arctic adventure with help from an Inuit community in the Canadian tundra. Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined the effort as the Internet titan's Street View team arrived ... See all stories on this topic » Nokia to Microsoft Seen Benefiting From Potential Samsung Ban Businessweek (005930) products face a possible ban and phonemakers come under pressure to consider alternatives to Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android software. A federal jury awarded Apple Inc. (AAPL) more than $1 billion on Aug. 24, saying Samsung infringed on six of ... See all stories on this topic » Google your feelings The Droid Guy Have you ever noticed the button on Google saying I am feeling lucky and you think to yourself, this might just be a way to advertise, well you are wrong here. This button is no ordinary button that Google has introduced infact it might just be the ... See all stories on this topic » The Droid Guy Facebook Stock, Valued on a Multiple of Revenue vs. Google, Would Plunge ... Forbes To make this argument, Hough compares Facebook to Google (GOOG) a few different ways. One view: Google trades at 3.6 times its projected revenues for 2014. Analysts expect Facebook to have $8.2 billion in sales that year, so assuming Facebook has ... See all stories on this topic » NASA Powers Satellite with Google Nexus One Phones NBC Southern California (blog) NASA has a thing for shooting things into space. Comes with the territory of being NASA. And the latest thing they're shooting into the great beyond is a satellite the size of a coffee mug. A satellite like that probably has an extremely high-tech ... See all stories on this topic » Google achieves 100 per cent mapping target for Nigeria, others The Guardian Nigeria The 100 per cent mapping achievement was disclosed by Google officials at the Regional Conference for super mappers across Africa, which kicked off in Lagos at the weekend, stressing that 100 per cent of Africa was now available on Google Map Maker. See all stories on this topic » Google Plays Catch-up in Retail Sector; Special Report by Leading Financial e ... Equities.com In a recent Investment Contrarians article, editor Sasha Cekerevac notes that Google sets itself apart from other technology stocks through innovation as a key investment strategy. However, Cekerevac reports that Google's recent expansion to include ... See all stories on this topic » Apple-Samsung Jury Foreman Says Google E-Mail Persuasive Businessweek Jurors who awarded Apple Inc. more than $1 billion in its intellectual-property battle with Samsung Electronics Co. relied on e-mails describing Google (GOOG) Inc.'s influence to arrive at their decision. Velvin Hogan, foreman of the nine-member panel ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Street View 'Punch Buggy' Game Is Part of Volkswagen Promo eWeek It's "Punch Buggy," but without the pain. As part of a new marketing campaign, Google Street View is being used to bring the classic Volkswagen Beetle "Punch Buggy" game to online customers around the globe by displaying Street View images taken in ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Beats The Gender Gap By Cheating And Actually Studying The Data Forbes As we all know, because we're reminded about it often enough in rather shrill voices, the gender gap is one of the more pernicious unfairnesses in our society. This idea that women only earn 77 cents to a $1 for men, don't get the same promotions, are ... See all stories on this topic »

Google: Profiting From New Local Search Enhancements investmentunderground By offering a new local search feature under the name Google+Local, the company, in one swift move, will maintain its current social media members by providing quick and easy access to online reviews while courting new members that want more than what ... See all stories on this topic » investmentunderground

Google Helps Small Businesses Get Online KATC Lafayette News 97 percent of the population uses the internet to search and Google is hoping Friday's workshop will help build better small businesses. Participants in the workshop receive a unique domain name free of charge for one year as well as help from Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Chouteau Schools Gets Helping Hand From Google News On 6 Technology giant Google is helping high schoolers in Chouteau reach the cutting edge of education. The massive Internet company is donating its time and expertise to give Chouteau schools a 21st century boost. Row after row of laptop computers sit at ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Apple now sue Google? Fortune (blog) After all, Google engineers were directly involved in developing at least one of the phones (the Nexus S) found to have infringed Apple's patents, and every one of the accused devices was running Google's Android operating system -- the "stolen product ... See all stories on this topic »

Consumer Watchdog challenges Google-FTC privacy settlement Australian Macworld Consumer Watchdog maintains that the court shouldn't approve the settlement because it allows Google to deny any wrongdoing, an objection that is also shared by FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch, who voted against the agreement, arguing that without ... See all stories on this topic » Google, Hisense Partner for Sub-$100 Google TV Set-top Box PCWorld (blog) Google so far has partnered with Vizio, Samsung, Sony and LG, which are putting Google TV software in TVs and set-top boxes. The Hisense device's closest competitor will be Vizio's $99 Co-Star Google TV set-top box, which has already sold out on Vizio ... See all stories on this topic » Apple's $1049343540 victory: Google, don't tread on me CNET (blog) Apple has another face-off against Samsung in an appeals case that more directly ties into Google and a patent over universal search, and Apple will be the one with momentum on its side. So yes, the battle may range on for another few years. But thanks ... See all stories on this topic » Google Fiber could widen the digital divide Kansas City Star Despite an offer by the tech giant's Google Fiber operation to virtually give away some Internet service to customers, the areas most lacking in online connections also appear the most likely to be left behind in Kansas City's leap ahead on a light ... See all stories on this topic » Kansas City Star Google Outs List of People Not Paid to Comment on Oracle Suit Wired Google has reiterated that it has not paid any authors, journalists, commentators, or bloggers to report or comment on its legal battle with Oracle over the Android mobile operating system. But in response to an order from the judge presiding over the ... See all stories on this topic » Wired Apple Cleared of Infringing Two Google Patents by ITC Bloomberg Apple Inc. (AAPL) didn't infringe two patents owned by Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit for wireless technologies used throughout the electronics industry, a U.S. trade agency said today in a decision that reduces the likelihood of an import ... See all stories on this topic » Google Changes 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Button PCWorld (blog) If you visit the Google homepage and hover your mouse over the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, the text will spin to different emotions, such as "I'm Feeling Puzzled" or "I'm Feeling Trendy." Clicking on the button takes you to a Google service related to ... See all stories on this topic » Busta Rhymes, Google Play Rep Talk 'Year of the Dragon' Free Album Billboard "Make It Look Easy" is one of several tracks on "Year of the Dragon" that caught the attention of Google. Partnering with the veteran rapper in August 2011 (before he signed a label deal with Cash Money last fall), Google developed a deal that allowed ... See all stories on this topic » Billboard With Samsung spanked, could Google be next? ZDNet Today's jury award of $1.05 billion in damages to Apple after Samsung was found to have blatantly ripped off its designs will have a ripple effect through the entire Android community. I wouldn't feel too good right now if I was HTC right now -- or Google. See all stories on this topic » ZDNet Google Apps Reseller Quells The Microsoft MSP Incumbent Sacramento Bee "I'm not going to lie, I do see myself as something of an MSP killer," says a grinning Crisantos Hajibrahim, founder and CEO of VIWO, one of Google's longest running Google Apps resellers. "With the margins so thin, it's going to be almost impossible ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google Street View for Village Too Remote for Cars By IAN AUSTEN 9:00 PM ET A pitch from an Inuit man brought a tricycle fitted with Google’s camera system to the streets of Cambridge Bay, a village in Canada’s Far North, on Monday. Google recruiting data privacy 'ninjas' San Jose Mercury News After a series of recent privacy gaffes, Google (GOOG) is soliciting software experts to apply for a special team of "back-end ninjas" who are focused on spotting and resolving user privacy issues in the company's products. Google won't say if its ... See all stories on this topic » Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button gets Playful, Artistic CNET Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button gets Playful, Artistic. Google's specialists in branding and self-promotion have done it again on the search site's iconic home page. No, it's not a new "doodle;" this time it's a tweak to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button. See all stories on this topic » Google Crunches One Trillion Pieces of Data With Single Click Wired News Yes, Google treats its latest data center technologies as the most important of trade secrets. But when these creations get a little older, the company is happy to at least describe them to the rest of the world. Sometimes. “We try to be as open as ... See all stories on this topic » Google team, local residents, map remote Nunavut hamlet CTV News It wasn't a typical day in the office for members of Google's Street View team as they roamed around a small Nunavut hamlet on Thursday in an effort to build the most comprehensive and accurate map of Canada's Arctic. But the Google team wasn't alone. See all stories on this topic » Google's Valuation Remains Attractive Seeking Alpha Over the past two and a half years shareholders of Google (GOOG) have not seen the same growth on their shares as they have observed in the financial statements. The volatility over that period has been tremendous, and if you were holding on during ... See all stories on this topic » Google Fiber project spawns “hacker homes” in Kansas City San Jose Mercury News Count me among those who are extremely excited to see how the Google Fiber project develops in Kansas City. It's where I grew up, after all. And when I visited earlier this summer, there was a real sense that Google Fiber could be transformative for ... See all stories on this topic » Bitter Apple? An update on Google's iOS Voice Search saga Computerworld (blog) A representative from Google confirmed to me that the company submitted the Voice Search app to Apple about a week before the August 8 announcement -- so around August 1, give or take -- and has yet to hear anything back about the app's status or lack ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog) Google adds more social integration for Chrome iOS app CNET Google introduced Chrome apps for both Android and iOS last June at Google I/O in San Francisco. To download the apps, read CNET's full reviews of the iOS and Android versions. Topics: Apps,: iOS,: iOS software; Tags: app,: Google Plus,: Google+,: iOS, ... See all stories on this topic » Google Wallet person to person payments and more could be coming soon Android Community Earlier today Google hosted a little Google Wallet Q & A with their head product manager Robin Dua. This quick session was mainly for developers but we learned a few interesting facts about the future of Google Wallet. For one, they mentioned person to ... See all stories on this topic » Google Goggles update brings support for devices without autofocus Engadget Google Goggles update brings support for smartphones without autofocus If you thought Google's perspicacious searching application was clever before, prepare for a shock. Google Goggles version 1.9 adds support for devices without autofocusing optics, ... See all stories on this topic »

In Google's Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women New York Times The company hopes its famous algorithms can solve one of the most vexing problems facing Silicon Valley: how to recruit and retain more women. Google has generally been considered a place where women have thrived, but it wants to figure out how to ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Changing SEO Strategies Post-Google Penguin Huffington Post The Google Penguin algorithm update is the latest spam-fighting wave to crash against the shore of search and it has heralded something of a new dawn for SEO, especially in terms of offsite strategy. In 2011, Google ran an algorithm update, known as ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Adds Octane To Measure Browser Speed InformationWeek Google has long been concerned about the speed of Web applications because slow online interactions drive users away. The company talks about speed constantly and regularly introduces software such as its Page Speed browser extension, which helps ... See all stories on this topic »

Hey Google, share that Nexus love beyond Samsung CNET Samsung has been the primary beneficiary of Google's Nexus flagship device program for the past few years, having built the first phone with Android 2.3, or Gingerbread, in the Nexus S -- and the first phone with Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich ... See all stories on this topic »

Consumer Watchdog Challenges Google-FTC Privacy Settlement PCWorld The group, which blasted the settlement when it was announced two weeks ago, has now filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, which is tasked with approving or rejecting the proposed deal. See all stories on this topic »

Google Heads to Canada's Arctic to Map Remote Community Bloomberg Members of the hamlet will participate in a “map up” in which they will use Google software to identify landmarks, said Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Google lead for the project. Company staff will then tour the community on a specially-designed tricycle ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo Beats Google, Microsoft in Alumni Becoming CEOs: Report Bloomberg (blog) For a company that has struggled to keep a chief executive officer in place, Yahoo! has spawned more than its share of technology leaders from its ranks who have gone on to run other companies. More of today's leading technology CEOs previously worked ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to Merge Postini Email Security Services Into Google Apps eWeek "With this transition to Google Apps, you can receive similar email security, protection and archiving, but through the more robust Google Apps service," the post stated. "Google Apps also works with mail servers, such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus ... See all stories on this topic »

German Bill Seeks Licensing Fee from Google, Other Search Engines PCWorld "Nobody sees a real reason why this should be implemented," Kay Oberbeck, Google's North Europe communications chief, told GigaOM. "It's really harmful, not just for users who wouldn't find as much information as they find now, but such a law is also ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Patents Search Tool: The Lunatics are Running the Asylum Business 2 Community Have you ever read a news story that makes you go, “Huh?” Such was the case last week when I read a seemingly innocuous story in TechCrunch about Google adding new “prior art” query functionality to its Google Patents search tool. On the same day ... See all stories on this topic »

Google rolls out Google Play gift cards ZDNet Last week, Android Police managed to reverse engineer an update issued by Google for the Google Play store, revealing code and resources that pointed to Google releasing gift cards. Earlier today, Google made the announcement on Google Play's ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple, Google - please spend on R&D not IP San Francisco Chronicle Throw in the $40 billion plus that Google has socked away, and the technology giants of our time are sitting atop a mountain of cash that would make even a Saudi prince blush. The problem is that neither company seems to have any idea what to do with ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Chinese Website Qihoo Pushes Google Aside Wall Street Journal Qihoo's move underscores the uphill battle Google faces to penetrate a market dominated by domestic rivals, including Baidu Inc., which holds 78.6% of the search market in the second quarter, according to industry research firm Analysys International. See all stories on this topic »

Google Finally Leads in China -- in App Ad Sales Bloomberg Google's strength in mobile ads stands in contrast to its search-engine business in China. The global leader has failed to catch homegrown favorite Baidu Inc. (BIDU) in computer-based search, and two years ago Google moved its search servers out of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Cooks up API to Streamline Enterprise License Management PCWorld (blog) The API (application programming interface), called Enterprise License Manager, is aimed at IT administrators with hundreds or thousands of end user licenses for the Drive online storage service and the Maps Coordinate application for managing field crews. See all stories on this topic »

Google's Motorola layoffs spark protests in China MarketWatch Motorola Mobility started the layoffs in China as part of its new owner Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) plan to chop 20% of the mobile-device maker's workforce globally. A company executive said that the cuts in China would affect all offices in the country. See all stories on this topic »

Internet Companies Google And Facebook Said They Are Working With Indian ... Chicago Tribune Content intended to incite violence, such as hate speech, is prohibited on Google products where we host content, including YouTube, Google+ and Blogger," Google said in a statement. It added that Google acts "quickly to remove such material flagged by ... See all stories on this topic »

Judge Says Google Still Isn't Being Forthright About Paid Bloggers DailyTech (blog) Oracle implied in filings before Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose/San Francisco) that Google might have similar paid "independent" analysts. Judge Alsup agreed, ordering both companies to ... See all stories on this topic »

Google adds Octane to its benchmark suite CNET (blog) Although speed is a major factor in browser choice, many people don't want to know why their favorite browser is fast -- they just care that it is. But the standards and tests used to determine how we measure a browser's speed can be varied, so Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to retire Postini, migrate features to Google Apps CNET The Web announced the transition today, saying that it has spent the last year building Postini's features into professional suite Google Apps for Business and Google Apps Vault, an e-mail archiving and discovery service. "With this transition to ... See all stories on this topic »

Chinese Site Drops Google as Default Search

Google faces intensifying challenges in China after Qihoo 360, a popular website and Internet browser company there, replaced the search service for its own technology.

India Targets Online Threats

Google and Facebook said they are working on requests from India to remove from their web sites "inflammatory and hateful content" that New Delhi blames for sparking a mass exodus of people from several cities.

Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system? CNET Google's public policy director says at an Aspen conference that "these patent wars are not helpful to consumers." Declan McCullagh. by Declan McCullagh. August 20, 2012 1:31 PM PDT Follow @declanm. Pablo Chavez, Google's public policy director, ... See all stories on this topic »

Google told to name paid advocates San Francisco Chronicle Google said in court filings Aug. 17 that it didn't pay people to write about the lawsuit, although nonprofit organizations, universities and trade groups receiving money from the owner of the world's largest search engine have commented on the case. See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle

Google Earth Partners to Offer View of Mars From NASA's Curiosity Rover eWeek To find the recent image that is in Google Earth, click the planet icon at the top of the screen (the one that looks like Saturn with its rings), then choose "Mars." Next, go down to the "Layers" menu at the bottom left of Google Earth. Once there ... See all stories on this topic »

San Francisco hedge-fund manager convicted of insider trading of Google, other ... San Jose Mercury News NEW YORK -- A San Francisco hedge fund founder was convicted of insider trading charges Monday by a jury that rejected his claims that he was careful never to trade based on secrets he received about public companies. Doug Whitman, whose hedge fund ... See all stories on this topic »

The Origins of the Investigation into Google Privacy Violations Wall Street Journal (blog) By Julia Angwin. For the past two months, a fight has been raging in the blogosphere about whether Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer can take credit for spurring the government investigation that led to Google paying a $22.5 million for privacy ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Analytics Could Be Banned In Norway TechCrunch The Norwegian Data Protection Bureau has declared that Google Analytics is not in accordance with the law. They justify themselves by referring to a 2008 European Directive that demonstrates once again the ignorance of Eurocrats — even though Norway ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Google, Oracle, Spotify, Apple: Intellectual Property Businessweek Oracle said Google maintains a network of direct and indirect “influencers” to advance its intellectual property agenda, according to an Aug. 17 filing in federal court in San Francisco. Oracle has hired one writer, Florian Mueller, author of the FOSS ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's list of paid bloggers not sufficient, judge says Reuters U.S. District Judge William Alsup gave Google until noon on Friday, Aug. 24 to provide an amended list of public commentators on the high-profile case between Google and Oracle Corp who have received payments as consultants, contractors, vendors or ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Other Fragmentation Problem PC Magazine Last week, Security Watch wrote about how zvelo researcher Joshua Rubin managed to crack the Google Wallet PIN using the exact same, six-month-old vulnerability he first reported last February, even after Google completely revamped and re-released its ... See all stories on this topic »

Why is Google's autocomplete so... The Virginian-Pilot Blogger Renee DiResta of California typed that question into Google and filled in the blank with a state's name. Google's autocomplete function, which uses algorithms to complete the question based in part on the most frequent searches using those ... See all stories on this topic »

Google and Oracle Disclose Few Paid Relationships for Trial PC Magazine An August 7 order by judge William Alsup in the Google/Oracle Android-themed patent face-off has turned up few fish. In an effort to weed out "authors, journalists, commenters, or bloggers" whose financial relationship with either company might come ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple, Google Embroiled in Patent Lawsuit over Smartphones eWeek The ubiquitous purveyor of sleek, expensive technology goods is no stranger to litigation: Apple is entering into the final phase of its lawsuit with Samsung, locked in battle over technology patents, stolen ideas and unfair competitive practices. Now ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Nexus 7 tablet gets an all-in-one toolkit TG Daily Google's indigenously designed Nexus 7 tablet is all the rage for devs - much like Mountain View's Android OS which allows the community to code a never-ending stream of hacks, mods and tweaks. Recently, an XDA dev known as "mskip" created a digital ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Google Shopping deliberately censoring searches for natural health products? Examiner.com Is Google Shopping deliberately censoring searches for natural products or is it a glitch within their system? This disturbing question arose a few weeks ago and is now beginning to hit mainstream awareness; particularly disturbing is that this ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to acquire Frommer's travel guidebooks Business Recorder (blog) Google Inc is buying the Frommer's line of travel guidebooks, the latest move to amass a trove of publishing content that could strengthen the No 1 Internet search company's push to become a major online travel broker. The sale by John Wiley & Sons Inc ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Street View Images Track Rebuilding of New Orleans After Katrina eWeek It's the first time that Google has updated the Street View images of the city since 2008, when the photographs still communicated the tragic destruction that occurred all over the area due to Katrina's Category 3 winds. Landrieu was Louisiana's ... See all stories on this topic »

US viewers watched 36.9 billion online videos in July CNET Other data from ComScore's report show that people in the U.S. watched 9.6 billion video ads in July with Google (again) ranking first as top venue and Hulu coming in second. ComScore notes that 20 percent of all videos viewed online were video ads. See all stories on this topic »

What Google's New Stance on Copyright Infringement Means to Your Business Terra.com Google currently accounts for over 66 percent of all online searches in the U.S. With this kind of market prominence, business owners should keep an eye on the slew of recent changes that Google has made to its search algorithm, especially one that may ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Play Store Gift Cards Already Available and on Display at Some Target ... Droid Life Google Play gift cards, oh what an odd story you are. It's nice to know that you can already be purchased at stores though, because seeing gift cards as highlights of the Android world multiple times a day is beyond confusing. They are gift cards, people. See all stories on this topic » Droid Life

Google upgrades Android maps as Apple battle looms NorthJersey.com Google's once-close relationship with Apple has been fraying since it began giving away its Android software in 2008 to cellphone makers looking to challenge the iPhone. SAN FRANCISCO — Google's mapping service for mobile devices is getting an ...