The Competition Commission of India (“CCI”), an agency equivalent to the United States Federal Trade Commission, is the latest such body to raise questions regarding the business practices of Google. Specifically, the CCI has received […]
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Facebook Is Working On A Voice Activated Digital Assistant To Take On Google And Apple
Sounding like an actor from a James Bond movie, M is set to become Facebook’s individual digital assistant, joining the likes of the dominant Google Voice, Microsoft’s Cortana and Apple’s Siri. M will exist inside […]
Researchers Just Proved That Google Could Pick The Next U.S. President
America’s next president could be decided based on a manipulated algorithm and rankings on Google’s search engine it has been revealed. Based on research conducted that shows a direct impact of search engine rankings and […]
Google Just Launched An All Out Assault On Yelp With Auto-Tagging Of Restaurant Photos
A new feature by Google will give its users a bigger role in the reviewing of restaurants and simultaneously attack Yelp’s dominance of the restaurant search segment. With restaurant eating becoming more and more convenient […]
Google’s Wi-Fi Router Is An Epic Trojan Horse Designed To Invade Your Privacy
Google launched its first Wi-Fi router, the OnHub, this week to much fanfare from the technology media and main street newspapers. The press touted the device as “saving Wi-Fi” and was praised for its “clever […]
Google Teams Up With Facebook To Control Internet Access In India
Google has joined forces with Facebook in an attempt to stop the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) from taking an anti Zero Rating stance. Zero Rating is a highly controversial practice where a […]
Google Just Placed A Huge Bet On The Future Of Manufacturing
Google aggressively entered the world of manufacturing on Thursday after it invested millions in Carbon3D, a 3d manufacturing startup. The new funding aims to lift 3D manufacturing out of the prototype business it has been […]
User Data Lost After Google Datacenter Gets Struck By Lightning Four Times
Google, the world’s most popular search engine, is unable to recover a huge amount of data after lightning struck one of its key data centers in Belgium, four times. The unlikely strike means that some […]
Video Shows Google Is Working On Game Changing Human Inspired Robots
Atlas, “an agile, anthropomorphic robot” designed by Boston Dynamics was recently taken out of the lab and tested in the real world. The video is nothing short of amazing. One part fascinating, one part scary, […]
Google’s Project Sunroof Tells You If Your Home Is Right For Solar Panels
Google, the world’s most popular search engine, now lets you evaluate your house to establish if it makes sense to put up a solar panel installation. Project Sunroof, created in the spare time of the […]
It’s Official: Apple Is Going To Make A Self Driving Car
While we’ve covered Apple’s flirtation with automobiles before, late Friday conclusive evidence emerged that the smartphone giant is building an autonomous vehicle. Documents leaked to British newspaper The Guardian show more proof the company has […]
Google’s New Parent Company Already Facing Multiple Trademark Issues
In announcing the newly created parent company that will encompass Google’s cash cow search business and several other Google holdings, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin may have stepped into a trademark infringement situation. […]
Google Announces Major Reorganization Amid Slowing Growth
Google’s recent announcement of Sundar Pichai being named the new CEO of the company took consumers by surprise. Following the announcement came the news that figureheads, and former CEO and President, Larry Page and Sergey […]
Google Search Results Found To Control Election Outcomes
Your latest online search into the 2016 Presidential Race may be affecting your judgement in a big way. Robert Epstein, of the American Institute for Behavioral Research, has discovered that there is a significant effect […]
Struggling Apple Pay Now Has Fewer Subscribers Than When It Launched
Apple’s recent creation of Apple Pay, which allows consumers to purchase items from merchants using their iPhone 6, has not been the big success the company had hoped for. In fact the numbers are awful: […]
Google Is Now Officially A Car Company
In transition from its role as a tester of autonomous vehicles, Google’s subsidiary company Google Auto has announced that it will be building 100 prototype self-driving cars. In the past Google Auto has retrofitted Audi, […]
Google’s Internet Balloons Will Finally Be Going Live In Sri Lanka This Fall
Sri Lanka will become the first country in the world to have full broadband coverage provided by floating telecom towers following an agreement between the country’s Government and Google. The coverage will be provided by […]
Amazon’s Cloud Facing Wave Of Competition From Alibaba And Google
The Alibaba Group, China’s e-commerce giant, has US rival Amazon in its sights and its not just about online retail. The chinese juggernaut is increasing its investment in overseas data centers over the next 18 […]
Top Colleges Now Offering Video Game Scholarships
Bucking the notion that video games use up time that would better be spent outdoors, the nation’s first varsity eSports squad at Robert Morris University (RMU) in Illinois is providing scholarships for students to play […]
Google Expanding Into Local Services Business With HomeJoy Acquisition
Google is getting into the local services game after it announced it will be releasing technology to match local professionals to customers for services in all aspects of home maintenance. Customers will have access to […]
Google Posts Largest One Day Gain In U.S. Stock Market History
Following the release of its quarterly earnings report on Friday, Google posted a 16% jump in its stock, which translates to $65.1 billion for the company. This barely beat the previous record of $65 billion […]
Six Years And Millions Of Miles Later, Google’s Self Driving Cars Finally Involved In Injury Causing Accident
After six years of testing and millions of miles travelled, one of Google Inc.’s self-driving prototype cars was finally involved in its first accidents with injury on Thursday in Mountain View, California. Google, better known […]
Investigation Reveals Government Agencies Subsidizing Google’s Private Jets
A recent investigation of federal documents suggests that the Department of Defense and NASA have been selling millions of dollars worth of below market price jet fuel to a company owned by the Google founders. […]
Google Resorts To Cost Cutting in Effort to Grow Profits
Google is making an effort to get its profit growth back on the upswing, marking a turn from high growth business to mature cash cow. The mega company is trying to grow its profits by […]
Study Finds Female Job Seekers Less Likely To See Ads For High Paying Jobs On Google
New research has found that Female Google users in search of a job are far less likely to be shown advertisements for highly paid jobs than men. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon constructed an automated test […]
Google Launches Uber Rival RideWith
Google’s complicated relationship with taxi-hailing app Uber got even more complex over the weekend as it emerged the Mountain View based search giant will launch a pilot project of its carpooling app RideWith, which allows […]
First Blackberry To Run Android Leaks, Likely Headed To AT&T
While it has been known for some time that once-powerful smartphone maker Blackberry is going to be making Android powered smartphones, late yesterday the plans appeared to crystallize as known leaker @evleaks published a screenshot […]
Google Found To Pose A Significant Threat To The Open Internet
An influential recent study of internet openness found that Google favors its own results in the search engine, limiting users’ reach and reducing the quality of their searches overall. Tim Wu, who created the phrase, […]
New York Payphones to Become Wi-Fi Hotspots
New Yorkers may soon have access to $200 million worth of free Wi-Fi hotspots, thanks to a Google supported startup called Sidewalk Labs. The company hopes to improve city life through technology and said it […]
Google Launches Ad Supported Streaming Service To Enter Crowded Online Radio Market
While Apple Music has been aggressively, perhaps illegally, trying to kill the concept of ad supported radio with its own streaming music service, Google has secretly been working on a streaming music service of its […]