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“Google”

Jul
21
2010

Google goes green, powers data centers with wind energy

Google has entered into a 20-year contract with the NextEra Energy Resources to but power from Iowa wind farm. This is an addition to the investment into green energy by the search giant. Although Google has some on-site solar, it’s often difficult to guarantee renewable power supplies in many areas that it has facilities.
Google believes [...]

Jul
19
2010

The death of Google Phone: Nexus One

The Nexus One or “Google Phone” will no longer be sold in the United States. This mixed experience should not overshadow the success of Google in mobile .Of course, Google had been modest by launching its own phone and this has never been an “iPhone killer” for the geeks. Even if the device was [...]

Jul
17
2010

Metaweb acquired by Google

Metaweb, a company that offers the integration of information from databases to other sites, just announced its acquisition by Google. This has been confirmed on the official Google blog. This has been done to improve the performance of its search engine.  Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The director of product development, Google, Jack [...]

Jul
16
2010

More ways to personalize your Google News

Two weeks after redesigning and introduction of new Google News, Google have made some changes to reflect people feedback on it. Chris Beckmann, Product Manager has informed via its blog post that two weeks ago Google designed a new news homepage for US with a enhanced customization, discovery and sharing. This redesign was [...]

Jul
16
2010

Live audio webcast of Google’s second quarter 2010 earnings

The press release of google informs that ,a live audio webcast of Google’s second quarter 2010 earnings release call will be available at http://investor.google.com/webcast.html.
The call begins today at 1:30 PM (PT) / 4:30 PM (ET). The press release disclosing the Google 2nd quarter financial results , the financial tables, as well as other [...]

Jul
12
2010

Motorola Droid X in US on July 15, high sales expected

In the coming week we will see the release of Motorola’s Droid X on the Verizon network. The precise date of the launch is July 15th and will be a 3G phone; the price of the phone is $199 down after a $100 rebate and a two year contract. Much before its release there is [...]

Jul
9
2010

Google Street view cars are back on work

The eyes that are global eyes by Google on the road are back. The Google cars are back on the roads for the first time since it was disclosed that these car are colleting private Wi-Fi data on their data through the streets.
The change is however that this time around there will be no collection [...]

Jul
9
2010

Google’s ICP licence dust settles, leaving a positive impact on shares

Google is making its way back to mainland China. After a tiff with the Chinese government the Google had shut down its search engine in the country. The issue between the two censorship problems, this had resulted in a six month tussle that forced the site to redirect the user through Hong Kong. The company [...]

Jul
9
2010

Bank of America, Citigroup, Alcoa, Google, Baidu, Air Products & Chemicals and Airgas Stk Future Mixed Before the Bell

U.S. stock futures were in tight range Friday after a strong week as investors pause after a big three-day rally and prepare for upcoming earnings season.
Bank of America Corp. hired two Fidelity Investments executive vice presidents Rich Linton and Steve Ulian to expand its $500 billion retirement-services business. Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC, $14.86, +$0.15, [...]

Jul
6
2010

Justin Beiber has either died or should be sent to Korea according to YouTube

YouTube has been under attack of hackers that troubles users with a big number of fake pop-up messages and directs them to adult sites. The hackers are taking the newly discovered scripting flaw on the site causing a rumor of a virus on the site to spread like wild fire. The matter now has been [...]