Google Adword victory

Facebook, Microsoft Disclose Government Data Requests, But Google Balks

 

 Facebook Discloses Basic Data on Law-Enforcement Requests

By VINDU GOEL

The social network said it received 9,000 to 10,000 requests for data from American law enforcement authorities in the second half of 2012.

 

Google Launches 'Loon' to Deliver Internet Access With Balloons

Facebook Product Launch Coming June 20

 

 

 Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

In 2008, a ruling by a surveillance court said to be against Yahoo discouraged technology firms from fighting data requests from the government.

Google Calls US Data Request Disclosures a Step Backward for Users New York Times (blog) Even as tech companies were given permission to publish some data on national security requests for users' data, Google said the authorization did not go far enough. Facebook and Microsoft on Friday night published data that for the first time included ... See all stories on this topic »

Google gives £3m to aid crackdown on child abuse images The Guardian Google has announced that it will hand out £3m in grants to protection schemes for children after coming under pressure to act against the growing tide of child abuse images online. The net giant has acted ahead of this week's Westminster summit ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Grabs Half Of All Mobile Ad Revenue InformationWeek SMB (blog) Such success fuels Google's critics like FairSearch.org, a group backed by Microsoft, Oracle and competing industry-specific search engines. In April, the group filed a complaint with the European Commission that claims Google "uses deceptive conduct ... See all stories on this topic »

Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons San Jose Mercury News CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online. Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was ... See all stories on this topic »

Google launches Internet-beaming balloons Washington Post Google tests giant balloons to connect 50 New Zealand homes to the internet. It says the technology could bring websurfing to remote corners of the world. Associated Press. Correction: Clarification: RELATED. Story: Google to use balloons to provide ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Project Loon explores balloon-powered Internet access Reuters June 15 (Reuters) - Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said late Friday. The pilot program ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Adword victory – 'no' to Esta copycats The Guardian Following Money's campaign to expose the copycat websites that trick the unwary into paying over the odds to access government services, Google has stopped advertising them to travellers applying for the "Esta" permit to enter the US. Last week, anyone ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's ambitious Internet balloons soar above New Zealand CBS News CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Adds 1000 More Famous Global Locations to Street View Maps eWeek The images are being provided to offer more information to viewers as they plan vacations or simply explore the world from their Web browsers, according to a June 13 post by Street View Program Manager Deanna Yick on the Google Lat Long Blog. See all stories on this topic »

 

. Google Doodle: A Tribute to Maurice Sendak

A colorful, animated tribute to the beloved children's author who would have turned 85 on June 10

Google: We're No NSA Stooge

...and we'll prove It if the Feds let us