The European Union made clear on Monday that it intends to levy fines on Google Inc. large enough to act as a deterrent to other monopolies as punishment for squeezing out rivals in the comparison […]
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Facebook Tweaks News Feed To Bury Friend Content, Increase Ads
Facebook loves fiddling with its News Feed algorithm. The company, now stocked with ex-Googler’s the search giant didn’t want, has always tried to tweak its news feed to get the engagement Google does with its […]
Google Announces Snow Job Of ‘Privacy Improvement’ In Attempt To Distract And Confuse Users
It’s important to remember that search, video and mobile phone operating systems are not the products Google makes. You’re the product. Or rather the troves of data the search giant maintains on you and sells […]
Google’s Push Into TV Accelerates, Will Now Offer HBO Now On Chromecast
Google’s I/O 2015 developer conference saw some interesting announcements from the company, which we’ve profiled here and here. Perhaps one of the most interesting announcements came from Google’s de-facto CEO, Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, […]
All The Photos You Upload To Google’s New Photos App Can Be Used By Google
Google’s new Photos app is a service that wants to “organize your memories.” But what Anil Sabharwal, head of Google Photos, didn’t tell you on Thursday is that all the photos you upload to Google’s […]
Google Launches Stealth Attack On Facebook With Free Unlimited High Res Photo Storage App
In a clever attack on privacy invading Facebook, Google announced on Thursday a new dedicated Photos app for Android, iOS and the web. It had hinted at this repeatedly over the past month but its […]
Google Is Now A Major Player In Television
At Google’s annual developer conference yesterday, Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, the most senior Google executive to actually speak with the public, revealed a stunning fact. act Google has sold 17 million Chromecast devices to customers […]
Apple Readies Big Push Into Automotive Infotainment Systems
Apple looks to be intensifying efforts to own the automotive market, with chief operating officer Jeff Williams describing vehicles as “the ultimate mobile device”. The news comes on the back of an announcement yesterday from […]
Google’s New Answer Engine Gamed To Spit Out Clearly Incorrect Answers
What happened to the dinosaurs? According to Google’s new answer engine: Dinosaur are used more than anything else to indoctrinate children and adults in the idea of millions of years of earth history. However the […]
First Mass Produced Car Using Google’s Android On Sale Today
Just under a year after Google announced it was adapting its popular mobile phone operating system Android to act as a car operating system, the first vehicle using the software has gone on sale. The […]
Reports Indicate Apple Ready To Fight Google With Its Own Search Engine
Apple is notoriously tight-lipped. Nobody ever really knows what the company is going to announce until it actually does. Apple stuck to this trend when it recently announced the launch of “Applebot”, a web crawling […]
Google Caught Helping Copyright Trolls Extort Money From Google Fiber Users
It’s no secret Google is aggressively looking to cozy up with Hollywood to help its struggling Youtube website. In the latest sign that the search monopolist is getting into bed with Big Copyright and their […]
Google – Uber War Heats Up As Uber Joins Baidu In Nokia Maps Bid
The battle between Uber and its largest investor, Google, heated up as Chinese search giant Baidu, Google’s largest Asian rival, joined Uber in bidding for Nokia’s mapping data unit, HERE. Uber kicked off the bidding […]
Google Leaves Backdoor In Hangouts For Easy Warantless Wiretapping
Google, a known NSA collaborator, has done its very best to muddy the waters about its cooperation with the unconstitutional spy programs. While on one hand allowing NSA wiretapping of its servers on the other […]
Google’s Self Driving Cars Twice As Likely To Get Into Accidents As Humans
Google’s self driving cars are getting into accidents. Lots of them, actually, according to reports. The company only released the number of accidents after The Associated Press reported that Google had notified California of three […]
Massive Bidding War For Nokia’s Mapping Data Is All About Self Driving Cars
It seems anyone with an interest in self driving cars realizes quality mapping data will be essential to their success, as a long list of rival firms line up to try and buy Nokia’s mapping […]
Facebook’s Internet.org Is A Privacy Nightmare
Facebook announced yesterday that it was opening up its Internet.org service to all sites, in response to criticism that it was playing favorites and undermining net neutrality in developing countries – effectively conditioning the population […]
Twitter And Others Banned From EU Lobbying
Twitter could soon find itself ignored by top European lawmakers. Twitter, as well as media companies BSkyB, TalkTalk, LG Electronics and Angry Birds maker Rovio missed an annual deadline to register their lobbying operations to […]
Google To Fund Movies, Youtube Channels To Stay Relevant
Netflix, Hulu, Roku, HBO Go and specialist sites like Vevo are all taking a chunk out of Youtube, the once massive online video website. Even Facebook and industry laggard Yahoo are getting a piece of […]
The Real Reason Google Is Reaching Out To News Publishers
Google is being credited with admitting mistakes in working with news organisations as it announced yesterday a new digital partnership with eight European publishers. The Digital News Initiative has been hailed as an attempt to […]
Google Launches Marketplace To Buy Patents Before Trolls Can
Google announced this morning that it has launched an experimental program to purchase patents from businesses and other patent holders who wish to sell. The company calls the new effort “Patent Purchase Promotion,” and is […]
Google Working On Second Version Of Google Glass
According to reports out of Italy, Google has bee working with eyewear maker Luxottica to come up with a new version of Glass, its glasses-meet-webcam-meet-smartphone project. The news adds further weight to suggestion the project […]
Google’s Internet-By-Balloon Scheme Is Lunacy
Google has posted a new video showing the progress it has made on Project Loon, a plan to float thousands of balloons into the upper atmosphere to provide internet connectivity for developing nations. The video […]
Self Driving Cars Estimated To Cut 90% Of City Traffic
New research shows just why Google and Uber are so interested in the idea of self driving cars. European transportation experts say congested cities could become a thing of the past, so long as people […]
Google Blames NSA For Its Sloppy Security
“Randomly watching and surveilling what’s going over the internet and invading the privacy of American citizens is not OK. Encryption is the solution.” answered Google Chairman Eric Schmidt when asked his thoughts on the state […]
Canadians Look Set To File Antitrust Litigation Against Google
Clearly Google has a major problem when friendly Canadians announce they are looking to litigate against the company. That looks set to happen as a letter obtained by the Financial Post showed Canada’s Competition Bureau […]
Uber’s War With Google Heats Up Over Maps
Nokia is selling its mapping business and there are some interesting bidders in the mix. At least four potential buyers including Facebook and a consortium of German carmakers representing BMW, Audi and Daimler, are interested […]
Google to Unveil Pay For What You Use Wireless Service
In what could mark a major turning point in mobile phone billing practices search giant Google is set to unveil a new U.S. wireless service as early as Wednesday, reports the Wall St Journal. The […]
Why Investors Should Be Worried About The Google Tesla Deal
News broke this morning that Google and Tesla reached an acquisition agreement in 2013. Larry Page and Elon Musk reportedly had a handshake deal that would have seen Musk head the electric car maker for […]
Swiss Postal Service Testing Drone Delivery
Swiss Post, Switzerland’s equivalent to the United States Postal Service, has confirmed it is testing a delivery service that uses drones. A spokesman for the national mail carrier confirmed a report in local media to […]