[$$] Google Gains Traction in Display-Ad Push
2010-03-11 05:53:38
Quote: VASCELLAROAND EMILY STEELGoogle Inc. is signing up marketers to use its latest display-advertising technology, pressuring rival Yahoo Inc. and advancing the search giant's effort to change the way ads are sold across the Internet. Display ads, the eye-catching banner ads that appear atop and alongside most Web sites, have been under pressure as marketers question their effectiveness. Spending on banner ads in the U.S. fell 2.3% last year to $4.77 billion, according to eMarketer. Google is champ...
Read articleTherese Poletti's Tech Tales: Google seeks cities for high-speed hookup
2010-03-11 05:53:37
Keywords: Commentary, GOOG, Google Inc
Quote: Digits: Mobile, The Next Big Thing in TechOn the 10-year anniversary of the bursting of the technology bubble, Stacey Delo hosts a discussion with MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert, WSJ's Julia Angwin and AllThingsD.com's Kara Swisher on mobile technology's dominance of the tech sector.We've already received a good number of submissions from communities across the country, and thousands of submissions from people who are excited about ultra high-speed Internet access," said a spokeswoman for Google in ...
Read article[$$] Google Reaches Books Deal With Italy
2010-03-11 05:53:37
Quote: BY CHRISTOPHER EMSDEN ROME—Google Inc. on Wednesday said it will scan ancient Italian literary texts ranging from Galileo Galilei to herbal medicine manuals as part of the Internet company's first publishing partnership with a national government. The deal involves digitizing up to one million books held in the National Libraries in Rome and Florence. Google has similar arrangements for out-of-copyright books with Oxford University, Madrid's Complutense University and the Bavarian state...
Read articleTV May Be the New Google Reader Play's Best Venue
2010-03-11 05:53:36
Keywords: Technology, Start-Ups, Internet, Enterprise, Gadgets
Quote: Google announced an experimental Web browsing feature on Wednesday that it will offer as an alternative view to explore content on the Google Reader Web site. The company is praising its simlplicity, but the advantage may be in the highly visual way it displays information.
Google Reader Playannounced on the company’s blog by Garrett Wu, a Google software engineer, offers a personalized Web site feed reader that tracks users’ favored content while eliminating a laborious setup.
M...
Read articleWhat We're Reading: What You're Reading
2010-03-11 05:53:36
Keywords: Technology, Start-Ups, Internet, Enterprise, Gadgets
Quote: (And if you don’t like what we’ve picked out, see the first item for a link to Google’s new service along these lines.)
And Now for Something Completely Different — googlereader.blogspot.com
Vindu Goel says: New Google feature shows you what the Web is reading, one page at a time.
How to Really Follow Conan O’Brien on Twitter — flavorwire.com
Jenna Wortham says: Turns out, Conan has multiple Twitter accounts, including @CocosBeard and @ConansFreckles. You...
Read articleMarket Up on Sense That Worst Is Behind Banks
2010-03-11 05:53:35
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: The Nasdaq composite index climbed 0.78 percent, or 18.27 points, to 2,358.95, helped by a 2.9 percent increase in shares of Google as the company indicated it was closer to resolving a dispute with the Chinese government.
A round of corporate deals provided another sign that businesses were gaining confidence. Late Tuesday, the drug and medical products maker Abbott Laboratories said it would buy Facet Biotech for $450 million. On Wednesday, shares of Facet Biotech surged 67 percent.
As investo...
Read articleMotorola to Put Microsoft's Bing on Phones
2010-03-11 05:53:35
Keywords: Financial, News, Stock, Market, Headlines, Investments, Quotes, Trading, TheStreet.com, TheStreet Staff ,Technology
Quote: (TheStreet) -- Motorola(MOT) has reached an agreement with Microsoft(MSFT) to deploy Bing search and mapping services on Motorola devices powered by Google's (GOOG) Android.The new offering, Motorola said in a press release, will launch on smartphones in China in the first quarter.Motorola said customers will get a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on their mobile browsers and an enhanced search widget with Bing integration."We believe that consumer choice is one of the most critical components to ensuri...
Read articleGoogle Maps Adds Directions for Cylists
2010-03-10 07:42:33
Keywords: Electronics, Gadgets, Personal Tech, New Technology, New Technology Products
Quote: questions about biking informationgooglemapsbikethere.orgmore than 51,000 signatures asking Google to add biking directions to its maps.
South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex.
Bicycling advocates are, not surprisingly, enthused.
BikeHugger.com, a blog about bike culture based in Seattle. “It will open up reliable transportation options to cyclists.” Mr. Byron said that while plenty of programs allow cyclists to upload their routes to the Web, no other service provides optimal di...
Read articleGoogle opens Web store for business applications
2010-03-10 07:42:33
Quote: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google's crusade to convert the world to "cloud computing," the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is st...
Read articleQ+A-Is there a WTO case against Chinese Internet censorship?
2010-03-10 07:42:32
Keywords: Taiwan,Asia,China,Domestic Politics,Emerging countries,United States of America,Diplomacy; International Relations,Major Breaking News,Internet software and services (industry),International Trade,Commercial services and supplies (industry group),Industri
Quote: Q+A-Is there a WTO case against Chinese Internet censorship?
By Chris Buckley BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) - The United States is studying
whether it could launch a WTO challenge against Chinese
Internet restrictions that affect Google and other U.S.
companies operating in China. [ID:nN09251360] Here are some questions and answers on the possible
complaint to the World Trade Organisation and its chances of
succeeding: WHAT ARE THE CHINESE INTERNET CONTROLS THAT HAVE IRKED
GOOGLE AND THE U.S. GOV...
Read articleGoogle adds bike lane with latest mapping feature
2010-03-10 07:42:32
Quote: (AP) -- Google Inc. is adding a bike lane with its latest online mapping option.The new bicycling directions available on Google Maps starting Wednesday supplement the guidance already provided to motorists and pedestrians. The biking directions initially will be available only for the United States.Google spent the past six months tweaking its mapping service so it could recommend routes that would steer bicyclists away from big hills and heavily congested streets. The feature can be used to pi...
Read articleTech and media moguls share vision in Abu Dhabi
2010-03-10 07:42:31
Quote: His comments opened the inaugural Abu Dhabi Media Summit, a tech and content confab that has drawn the likes of Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong and Warner Bros. (TWX) CEO Barry Meyer.
Why are they here? For one, oil-rich Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, is arguably the most influential city in the high-growth Middle East economy. For another, the rulers here have been aggressively diversifying their portfolio beyond oil and gas and into areas including global...
Read articleUPDATE - U.S. looks to software to help open 3 nations
2010-03-09 02:50:26
Keywords: United States of America,Software,Data processing services,
Quote: Treasury Department followed a
request by the State Department to provide waivers under
existing sanctions, allowing companies like Google Inc (GOOG.O)
and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to export free, mass-market
software. "Today's actions will enable Iranian, Sudanese and Cuban
citizens to exercise their most basic rights," Deputy Treasury
Secretary Neil Wolin said on Monday in a statement. The waiver would allow downloads of software for Web
browsing, blogging, email, instant messaging, and chat; s...
Read articleReport: Google Testing TV Set-Top Search Device
2010-03-09 02:50:25
Keywords: Google Testing TV Set-Top Search Device, GOOG, Dish Network Corp., DISH, search engine, tv, web vide
Quote: Google (GOOG) is reportedly working with Dish Network Corp.(DISH) on the development of a new search service that willallow audiences to locate content on satellite television, as well as search for video on the Web, the Wall Street Journalreported Monday.The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said search the feature would be available on set-top boxes that containGoogle software.The search-engine giant is testing the search service on a small group of its employees and their famil...
Read articleUPDATE - Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook
2010-03-09 02:50:25
Keywords: United States of America,Italy,Western Europe,Europe,Australia,Asia,Internet software and services (industry),Crime; Law Enforcement,Legislation,Crime law and justice,Business activities,IT services and consulting,Commercial services and supplies (industr
Quote: UPDATE 1-Cyber-bullying cases put heat on Google, Facebook
* Google in Italy, Facebook in Australia see cyber-bullies * Legal issues may not be a concern for Web businesses * Social pressures may force more accountability though(Adds Google blog post, paragraph 7) Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES, March 9 (Reuters) - The Internet was built on
freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable
when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like
Google and Facebook are finding thems...
Read article[$$] Tough Road for Google's Network
2010-03-09 02:50:23
Quote: BY BEN WORTHENGoogle Inc. last month said it would provide ultrahigh-speed Internet connections for up to 500,000 people in the U.S. Now the search giant must deal with the challenging part: building the network and making sure there are services available to take advantage of it. Since its ultrahigh-speed announcement last month, Google has reached out for advice to several communities such as Cleveland that have already embarked on such projects. Among other things, Google asked about the need...
Read article[$$] Google Tests TV Search Service
2010-03-09 02:50:22
Quote: Article ExcerptGoogle Tests TV Search ServiceBY JESSICA E. VASCELLAROGoogle Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving race to combine Internet content with conventional TV. The service, which runs on TV set-top boxes containing Google software, allows users to find shows on the satellite-TV service as well as video from Web sites like Google's YouTube, according to th...
Read articleWhere Clouds Displace Forests
2010-03-09 02:50:22
Quote: YahooMicrosoftGoogle, respectively.
Like those cities, Prineville had to offer generous property tax incentives, in this case on 124 acres of land Facebook acquired for some $3 million last year. Facebook will be taxed for the next 15 years only at the current assessed value of the unimproved parcel, around $25,000 a year, with the county foregoing as much as $3 million annually on the value of any new structures on the property.
In exchange, Prineville will receive an annual $110,000 "communit...
Read articleGoogle, Dish Reportedly Test TV Search
2010-03-09 02:50:21
Keywords: Financial, News, Stock, Market, Headlines, Investments, Quotes, Trading, TheStreet.com, TheStreet Staff ,Technology
Quote: (TheStreet) -- Google(GOOG) is testing a new television programming search service with Dish Network (DISH) that runs on TV set-top boxes and contains Google software that allows users to search content from Web videos and personalize a lineup of shows, a report says.With the move, Google joins rivals MicrosoftMSFT) and AppleAAPL)Wall Street Journal reports. Just last week, TiVoTIVO)Journal notes.Journal.Viewers in the Google test can search by typing queries using a keyboard rather than a remot...
Read articleFBI director warns of growing cyber threat
2010-03-05 05:07:07
Keywords: United States of America,Washington / US Government News,Crime; Law Enforcement,Legislation,National and international security,Diplomacy; International Relations,Commercial services and supplies (industry group),Industrial machinery,Machinery,Internet so
Quote: In January, Google Inc(G......
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