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Google Reduces IP Retention Period to 9 Months

Published on September 9, 2008 to Networking

Google announced today that it will divide the amount of time before it anonymizes users’ data in half, meaning your search data will now only be associated with your IP address for nine months... Read more

Cashing In: Google Sued For Patent Infringement

Published on August 19, 2008 to Business & Law

Mountain View (CA) - GraphOn, a software company that offers remote application access software, said it has filed a patent infringement suit against Google. Read more

St. Paul Suburb Tells Google Maps: Keep Out - We Mean It

Published on June 3, 2008 to Security

You can look at almost anything on Google. Read more

Google Retracts After Caught Stealing Ideas

Published on April 9, 2008 to Using the Internet

Monday this week Google launched its App Engine, which was very well received by developers and users alike. Unfortunately, attention turned elsewhere on Tuesday as the Google was caught with its... Read more

Google's First Off-shore Cloud Computing Cooperation

Published on January 30, 2008 to Business & Law

Google’s Taiwan Engineering Research Center on January 29 announced cooperation with Taiwan’s National Taiwan University and National Chiao Tung University to promote Google’s Cloud Computing... Read more

Google Sued Over Chinese Name

Published on December 18, 2007 to Business & Law

Beijing (China) - A Chinese technology company has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the name the search giant uses in China infringes on its copyrights. Google goes by the name "Guge"... Read more

Internet Math: Google Gets $1.10 Of Every New Ad Dollar

Published on July 21, 2008 to Business & Law

Even as Google's business growth softens, the company continues to eat everyone else's lunch. Read more

Google Will Put Display Ads Into Image Searches

Published on May 9, 2008 to Using the Internet

Google is moving ahead on its plans to integrate display advertisements into image searches, moving beyond the days of displaying only text-ads on Google.com itself and none at all in image searches. Read more

Google Announces Questions and Answers Application for Meetings

Published on September 26, 2008 to Business & Law

Google has released another one of the company’s “20% projects” out into the wild for public use, a Q&A rating tool designed for use at company meetings. Read more

Google's Visualization API Goes After Microsoft's Cash-cow

Published on March 19, 2008 to Office Software

At first sight, Google's brand new Read more

Rich Parents Prefer Google

Published on March 28, 2008 to HDTV

A new Tufts University study sees the emergence of a "digital skills divide" based on socioeconomic status. Read more

Google Co-Founder Reveals He is "Substantially Predisposed" to Parkinsons Disease

Published on September 19, 2008 to Business & Law

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, arguably the fastest growing company in the industry, yesterday started his own personal blog "Too" Read more

EU Pats Google on the Back for Rentention Policies, Sort of

Published on September 11, 2008 to Business & Law

On Tuesday Google announced that as a result of pressure from EU and U.S. regulatories, the company had decided to reduce the amount of time it tied search data to a user’s IP address to nine... Read more

Google Revenues Approach $5 Billion

Published on January 31, 2008 to Business & Law

Mountain View (CA) - Google reported $4.83 billion in revenue and $1.21 in profit for the fourth quarter of 2007. Compared to Q4 2006, sales were up about 51% from $3.21 billion and profit... Read more

Google.org Focuses On Climate Change, Poverty And Emerging Threats

Published on January 17, 2008 to Business & Law

Mountain View (CA) - Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, has announced its first five major initiatives. More than $26 million are given to organizations that are involved in... Read more