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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 »