Google ‘News Near You’ Comes to Mobile
Google began aggregating local news in its Google News service in 2008. When it first began, users typed in a city name or zip code and viola! News from their specific area was now available from a huge variety of … Continue reading →
Google opens an office in Malaysia (and hiring)
Google said Wednesday it will launch a new office in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The Malaysian office is Google’s second in Southeast Asia followed by the Singapore office. The new Google office will focus on customizing products like Google Maps, News, Google Translate for the locals to boost ad sales around the region. […]
Rumor: Chrome Chief To Stick With Google Despite Twitter Bid
As news stories go, there have been more interesting ones than an employee not switching companies. However, rumors indicated that Twitter was courting Google’s Sundar Pichai, and in order to keep him – which Google has – Google likely had to lay out a significant sum of money. To set the scene: Sundar Pichai has […]
The Things Google Did in 2010 (The Fourth Quarter)
We’re looking at the things Google has done over the course of the year. For the first quarter, read this article. Then find the second quarter here and the third quarter here. Now we’re on to the fourth quarter. Allow me to include the disclaimer from the previous posts: I have not included every single Google-related story of the year. […]
The Things Google Did in 2010 (The First Quarter)
I started off aiming to write an article about all of the things Google has done over the course of the year, and quickly realized that this would be one massive article, even if I only briefly mentioned everything. So I have decided to split the article up into quarters, so you don’t have to […]
EU Launches Search and Advertising Antitrust Investigation Against Google
News is out this morning that Google is being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators. They are looking into the possibility that Google is discriminating against competitors in it search results and ads. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports: "The European Commission will check whether Google ‘imposes exclusivity obligations on advertising partners, preventing them from placing certain types […]
Google Revamps Google News
Today Google is releasing a redesigned version of their Google News site to English-language users in the U.S. The update focuses on presenting news stories happening around the world and locally in a way that is…
Blippy User’s Credit Card Number Found in Google Again [WARNING]
We posted news yesterday that Blippy, the site for sharing your credit card transactions with friends, had inadvertently made full credit card numbers of some users visible in Google searches. Blippy responded that the situation was “a lot less bad than it looks”, since only 127 transactions and 4 credit cards were affected. (We’d argue […]