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Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress.
Perhaps to forestall objections to its approach, Google said it planned to offer new ways for users to protect their privacy. Most notably, Google will be the first major company to give users the ability to see and edit the information that it has compiled about...
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Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers. The story claims that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon have quietly withdrawn from a coalition of companies and groups backing network neutrality (the coalition is not named), though Amazon's name is reportedly once again listed on the...
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Google is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions.
The group will be lead by David Drummond, Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, according to two of these people. Google has hired William Maris, a 33-year-old former entrepreneur who has worked as an investor, to help set up the venture. How the group will be structured and what sort of investments it is likely to target remain unclear.
The move would make Google the latest...
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Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions.
So far, Lively by Google works on Windows Vista or XP and Google is working on a MySpace version. The hope is that portability of the service will help distinguish it; another interesting addition is that in these virtual room users can can view videos and other content that are running on sites such as Google-owned...
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Duane 1 year 7 months ago
Yahoo and AOL are close on finalizing a deal that would combine parts of both companies. The deal would bridge Timer Warner's Internet operations with Yahoo by folding the AOL unit into Yahoo. In return, Time Warner would make a cash investment of about 20% of the combined entity, valuing AOL at about $10 billion.
The possible Yahoo-AOL tie-up is part of a threefold plan by Yahoo to present shareholders with an alternative to Microsoft's unsolicited offer. Yahoo would also propose repurchasing billions of dollars of its own shares and is...
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Kevom 1 year 8 months ago
Yahoo said on Tuesday that it supports OpenSocial; a protocol to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive.
Google launched its OpenSocial network in November to lure developers already creating popular Web applications on social networks like Facebook.
Yahoo, Google and News Corp-owned MySpace said on Tuesday they will create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications. It will be set up as a non-profit entity, with assets...
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Fangio 1 year 8 months ago
We know that Google is a big company and we also know how their offices are, the quality that Google offers to their employees is very impressive, it’s amazing how they created different environment for each sections, so, if you haven’t seen pictures about their offices, well, you are a lucky guy, because I have for you the Google office in Zurich, now you can have an idea how are the others offices that they have...
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Jerry Knoblach wants to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. His plan: Beam it down from balloons hovering at the edge of space.
This isn't just hot air. His company, Space Data Corp., already launches 10 balloons a day across the Southern U.S., providing specialized telecom services to truckers and oil companies. His balloons soar 20 miles into the stratosphere, each carrying a shoebox-size payload of electronics that acts like a mini cellphone "tower" covering thousands of square miles below.
Cheap, disposable...
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Kevom 1 year 11 months ago
Google’s free gift to Adsense publishers this year is a sleek ultra thin USB flash memory drive with 2GB of storage in a carefully designed cardboard packing.
Last year I received a digital picture frame:
http://web2.commongate....hoto_Frame
In 2005, they gave out memory sticks plus USB devices, mini mouse, flash flight and ear phones.
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Google has announced the release of a new online storage facility within the next few months. Rumours of this service - dubbed as the GDrive - began at the end of 2006, where information leaks revealed that an in-house storage system used by Google's employees to upload and share data will be offered as a new publicly available service.
Google's new GDrive will try to tighten the gap between online storage and local hard disk storage. Along with offering a simple and efficient web interface, Google's GDrive will come with a desktop...
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