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Google agrees to record $22.5M fine on privacy
Boston.com
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is paying a record $22.5 million fine to settle allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of Web surfers who use Apple's Safari browser. The penalty announced Thursday by the Federal Trade ...
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Google Takes Aim at Siri with Voice Search on iOS App
PCWorld
Voice-assisted Google searches are not a new thing. The option has been available for a couple of years within the Google Search app for iOS, but it wasn't a match to Apple's voice assistant, Siri, which launched with the iPhone 4S and uses natural ...
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A Makeover Made in Google's Image
Wall Street Journal
Since taking over Yahoo three weeks ago, the former Google Inc. executive has talked with Yahoo's product leaders about how to reverse the declining usage of the company's search and email service, said people with knowledge of the matter. She has also ...
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Wall Street Journal
Google Goes Back to the Drawing Board for Nexus Q
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — In June, Google engineers took to the stage in front of thousands of cheering software developers to introduce the Nexus Q, a black ball meant to stream video and music. It was Google's first try at building its own hardware — in the ...
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Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under ...
The Atlantic
Ever since Google began designing its self-driving cars, they've wanted to build cars that go beyond the capabilities of human-piloted vehicles, cars that are much, much safer. When Sebastian Thrun announced the project in 2010, he wrote, "According to ...
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The Atlantic
Is Google Avoiding Or Evading Taxes In The UK?
Forbes
There seems to be some confusion over whether Google is dodging, avoiding or evading corporate taxation in the UK. The first answer is the most obvious: it's not evading taxes because that is illegal, by definition. Thus we would expect to see ...
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Take That, Google Earth: This 3D Map Pinpoints All Known Galaxies and Black ...
PCWorld
[Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey]When you're looking for a place on a map, it's quite easy to end up studying something else--an interesting landmark, a road or, in my case, finding out where the River Thames ends up inland by scrolling through Google ...
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Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade
The Atlantic
In an interview with Forbes's Meghan Casserly, Laszlo Bock -- Google's, Chief People Officer (in non-Google terms: head of HR) -- shares a Google benefit that is all too literally out of this world. "This might sound ridiculous," Bock tells Casserly ...
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The Atlantic
Google's interactions with federal regulators
Huffington Post
Google has had several interactions with U.S. regulators in recent years. On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission announced a record fine to settle a case over whether unauthorized changes Google made to privacy settings in Safari Web browsers ...
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Australia Orders Google to Destroy Leftover Street View Data
PC Magazine
In a letter to Iarla Flynn, the head of public policy and government affairs for Google Australia, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) called for Google to immediately destroy the data and provide the government with ...
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Ex-Google exec's new Kickstarter-esque venture starts at RISD
WPRI-TV 12 (blog)
Venture for America isn't the only new alternative to corporate life that's starting to make waves on College Hill in Providence. Upstart, an organization that debuted Wednesday, describes itself as "a new approach to funding and mentorship." It lets ...
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Google Shopping – The Balance Between Old & New
Search Engine Land
Since 2002, Google has been listing relevant products when users searched using keywords with commercial intent. Google acquired the information for these listings through two sources – its own crawls of websites with product information and the ...
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Search Engine Land
How Google's 'Penguin' Update Will Change Publishing, for the Better
AdAge.com
Over the past decade, the publishing industry been swinging on a pendulum created by the effects of search engine optimization (SEO). In the old, primarily print days, the most successful publishers were those that could produce great content for a ...
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Google Ventures funds Wantworthy, a "save for later" tool for online shopping
VentureBeat
In an online shopping frenzy, do you wish you could save all your favorite items into one handy shopping list? Wantworthy, an e-commerce tool to organize, and get feedback on products, launches today with $1 million in backing from Google Ventures, ...
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VentureBeat
Google launches Google Earth 3-D for Seattle
The Seattle Times
The newest iteration "uses new imagery rendering and computer vision techniques that enable the automatic 3-D creation of not just individual buildings, but entire metro areas," according to spokeswoman for Google. The 3-D technology works only on the ...
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Google Updates Results: Small Businesses Suffer
Search Engine Journal
In the last few Google updates, there have been some significant changes to how the search results are displayed. The media machine has covered these events extensively as these updates have unfolded. Because of the unique position I'm in, I have an ...
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Google builds stronger Flash sandbox in Chrome
Computerworld
Chrome was the first to sandbox Flash Player: Google shipped a "stable" build of the browser in March 2011 with a Windows sandbox for Flash. In May 2012, Adobe issued a sandboxed Flash plug-in for Mozilla's Firefox, although the open-source browser ...
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Google Translate For Android Gets Pumped Up With Picture Translations
TechCrunch
It's maybe not the most novel idea we've seen — Google Goggles tried a similar trick back in 2010, and the ever-popular Word Lens arguably does with it more panache — but it's a welcome addition to the mix nevertheless. Just don't expect it to play ...
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TechCrunch
protect your cloud data from hacks
CNN
As a Wired writer's recent brush with hackers shows, there are plenty of ways for your cloud-based accounts -- Amazon, Apple, Google -- to be hacked. And while both Amazon and Apple responded to Mat Honan's story (you should read the whole thing; ...
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Google pays $22.5 mln to settle Apple Safari charges
IBNLive.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc will pay $22.5 million to settle charges it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. The deal ends an FTC probe into allegations ...
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Google Beefs Up 'Knowledge Graph,' Takes it to Apple's Turf
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google, which recently began one of the biggest transformations of the company's Web-search engine, said Wednesday that it was taking the "next baby steps" toward realizing the dream of artificial intelligence: a computer that understands the world as ...
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Google Is Full Of Crap: College Humor Takes On The Site's Most Ambitious ...
Huffington Post (satire)
Between Project Glass, the self-driving car and some other inventions you might not have heard about (cough Hoverboards cough) College Humor doesn't think Google should be getting us all so excited just yet. In the sketch above featuring Google's ...
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How Google might help avert a financial crisis
The News Journal
Sixteen years ago, the founders of Google — computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin — introduced an algorithm to measure the "importance" of Web pages relative to any set of keywords. Known as PageRank, it works on the notion that Web pages ...
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Why Google and Amazon Don't Offer Private Cloud Services
CloudTimes (blog)
private cloud Why Google and Amazon Dont Offer Private Cloud Services The term cloud computing immediately evokes services that high profile companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace or Salesforce.com offer to their customers. This is ...
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CloudTimes (blog)
Google Says Voice-Activated Services Coming, Adds iPhone App
International Business Times
Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, said it has devised a voice-enabled app for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhones that will challenge the Siri personal assistant. The move comes two months after Google acquired Motorola Mobility Holdings, one ...
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International Business Times
How to make Google always open search result links in new tabs
CNET (blog)
If you conduct research online, you likely run into the problem of burying search results under a trail of links. It's frustrating to locate later a previous result, clicking backward through various pages to locate it. A better way to search is to ...
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Google Algorithm Changes: Seriously, Is Google Not Sharing Them Anymore?
WebProNews
Since Google started sharing these lists, the company has been posting them to its Inside Search blog. The last post to that blog, as of the time of this writing, is still "Make your mark on Google with Handwrite for Mobile and Tablet Search" from July 26.
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Judge Orders Google, Oracle to Reveal Media Payola Post-Trial
DailyTech
The revelation was pretty interesting, considering that Mr. Mueller long predicted Google's situation to be very dire, when in fact Google presented a very strong case, allowing it a resounding victory. Mr. Mueller has repeatedly denied the ...
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DailyTech

Blogs12 new results for Google
 
Google to challenge Siri with its updated Google search app | TUAW ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
Google's Search app for iOS will soon receive an update that'll improve the voice assistant component and bring it on par with its Android Jelly Bean.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Daily Report: A Stumble for Google With Media Player - NYTimes.com
By By DAVID F. GALLAGHER
Google's Nexus Q, a black ball meant to stream video and music, is the company's first try at building its own hardware. But as Claire Cain Miller reports on Thursday in The New York Times, Google's indefinite postponement of Nexus Q ...
NYT Bits
Google Chrome for Windows gets more secure Flash player, gives ...
By Michael Gorman
Chrome turned 21 last week, and in that new version, Google's made playing Flash videos in its browser even safer... for Windows users, anyway. This.
Engadget
Archy beta brings panache to Google Drive | TUAW - The Unofficial ...
By Kelly Hodgkins
If you use Google Drive and want a lightweight Mac client to view and manage your Drive files, then you should check out Archy. Archy sits in your.
TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Google to Pay $22.5 Million Settlement in Safari Privacy - Mac Rumors
By Eric Slivka
In line with last month's report on negotiations between Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the company's circumvention...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
For Google, keeping search relevant means baking big data into ...
By Derrick Harris
Google has opened its Knowledge Graph to the English-speaking world and has made intelligent voice search possible on mobile phones. Underneath it all, of course, are ever more-complex methods of analyzing data to make search smarter ...
GigaOM
Samsung and Google Take a Beating on the Funny Video Beat - Liz ...
By Liz Gannes
Conan's new motto for Samsung? "Think slightly different."
AllThingsD
Google Is About To Make Apple's Siri Look Like A Joke - Business ...
By Steve Kovach
Its voice-powered search is coming to iPhones and iPads.
Business Insider
Getting started with the Google App Engine | TechRepublic
By Ian Hardenburgh
The Google App Engine is part of Google's bundled cloud platform products. Find out how it fits into the mix and how to start using it.
on TechRepublic
Did Google Make a Bad Move By Releasing Google Now-Like Voice ...
By Chris Chavez
In what could be considered a controversial decision by some (read: Android fanboys), Google announced on their blog this afternoon that they've brought one of Jelly Bean's key features over to, where else, but the Apple iPhone. Starting very ...
Android Phone Fans
Google Shows Off Its Latest "Baby Steps" Toward Becoming the Star ...
By Jon Mitchell
On Wednesday, Google announced new natural-language voice search on iOS, new, touch-friendly Web interfaces for its answers, and an ambitious, voluntary experiment to bring your Gmail messages into search results. Google wants to be ...
ReadWriteWeb
It's official: Google agrees to pay record $22.5M FTC fine in Safari ...
By Élyse Betters
We reported last week that the Federal Trade Commission voted to fine Google $22.5 million for violating browser security settings in Safari, but now Google has agreed to pay the record-setting amount and finally settle its dispute. According ...
9to5Mac

Web5 new results for Google
 
How it works – Google Wallet
Go to Google Wallet for Business · Sign in Sign up ... In-store and online. Google Wallet stores your credit and debit cards, offers, loyalty cards, and more.
www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works/
Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time ...
Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It's very much like the ...
googleblog.blogspot.com/.../building-search-engine-of-future-...
Use any credit or debit card with Google Wallet | Official Android Blog
(cross-posted from the Google Commerce Blog) Since we released the first version of Google Wallet, the app that makes your phone your wallet, we've made it ...
officialandroid.blogspot.com/.../use-any-credit-or-debit-card-...
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing the Structured ...
Google makes use of structured data in a number of ways including rich snippets which allow websites to highlight specific types of content in search results.
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/.../introducing-structure...
Chromium Blog: The road to safer, more stable, and flashier Flash
More Blogs from Google. Visit our directory for more information about Google blogs. Useful links. Chromium Homepage · Google Chrome · Google Chrome ...
blog.chromium.org/.../the-road-to-safer-more-stable-and.html


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