Tag: Google

Google really is trying to be the Star Trek computer

For years, when Google employees likened their projects to the Star Trek computer, Farhad Manjoo dismissed it as a convenient media metaphor. “Google is...

Google and Sweden in war of words over ogooglebar

There's now officially no word for "ungoogleable", meaning "impossible to find via web search" in Swedish – although there was a term until this...

Google working on rival to Apple’s iWatch

Google’s Android unit is reportedly working on a wearable smartphone that would be a rival to Apple’s much talked about – yet still unseen...

Google Politics & Elections for Pakistan launched

The worlds largest and most used search engine 'Google' has further diversified the types of products it offers. Tailor made for the Pakistani population,...

Google fined 7 million dollars for street view snooping

Google has coughed up $7 million—about an hour’s revenue for the search giant—to settle a probe into its Street View cars’ unauthorized collection of...

Google killing Google Reader

Some eight years after the service launched, Google is shutting down its Reader, Marketing Land reports. The news-reading service was “an effort to make...

Facebook, Google and Amazon join fight against cancer

The project will allow smartphone users to play to investigate vital scientific data at the same time as playing a mobile game. The first...

Google challenges Apple with high-end laptop

Google unveiled a touchscreen notebook computer Thursday, designed for high-end users, throwing down the gauntlet to Apple and its MacBooks. Google said its Chromebook...

Facebook, Google create ‘new Nobel prize’ worth 3 million dollars

FACEBOOK’S and Google’s founders set aside their rivalries to create the “Breakthrough Prize” for science that’s worth more than double the value of the...

New Google project: Touchscreen laptops

Google is at work on a new kind of Chromebook: one with touchscreen capabilities, the Wall Street Journal reports. The laptops should be out...

Google wins advertising case in Australia

Global search engine Google Inc won a landmark court case in Australia on Wednesday when the country's High Court ruled the Internet giant was...

Google sued over Apple browsing privacy

Google is facing legal action in the UK over claims it breached the privacy of people browsing the internet on Apple computers and mobile...

Google’s ultrafast Internet draws startups to KC

Inside a small bungalow on the street separating Kansas City, Kansas, from its sister city in Missouri, a small group of entrepreneurs are working...

Apple, Google chiefs face grilling on ‘no-poaching’

Apple chief Tim Cook and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are expected to face questioning in a lawsuit accusing Silicon Valley giants of secretly agreeing...

EU forces Google to change listing of search results

Google will have to change the way it presents search results or face anti-trust charges for favouring its own services, the EU's competition chief...

Feds clear Google of search bias

Google is resolving the FTC’s antitrust probe into its business practices today after 19 months, the AP reports. As part of the settlement, Google...

Google sells Motorola Home for $2.35bn

Google has agreed to sell the set-top box business of its subsidiary Motorola for $2.35bn (£1.45bn). The deal to sell Motorola Home has been agreed...