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 […]
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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 […]
The Truth About Apps That Secretly Connect To Tracking Sites
There are two different ways to download apps. The first is the carefully curated Apple app store, which takes a notoriously tough review to have your app listed. The second is via the Google Play […]
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 […]
Why Google’s open source strategy works
This morning Matt Rosoff wrote an interesting piece, arguing that Google should stop offering an open source version of Android. This is an interesting argument and Matt is one of the more knowledgeable writers on […]
An iPhone 6 Hype Reality Check
The internet was abuzz today over star Apple analyst Gene Munster’s forecast for the iPhone 6. Munster is known to have a great read on Apple and we thought it worthwhile to point out a […]
TGIF: Google Has A Bad Day Amid A Bad Week
Search and mobile phone monopolist Google must be thankful it’s Friday. The company, already having a bad week due to the EU announcing its intent to prosecute the giant over abuse of dominant position in […]
Google Helps Homeless Take Cashless Payments
No longer will people be able to walk past homeless asking for money and pat their pants saying “sorry, no cash!”. Google has teamed up with Real Change to offer a barcode based payment system […]
Major Changes Coming To Google
This week the European Union’s competition commissioner announced it had taken the first steps toward fining Google for abusing its dominant position in search. Specifically the EU Commission believes the company has abused its dominant […]