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GOOGLE News, Apr 15, 2012


Google Is Faulted for Impeding US Inquiry on Data Collection
New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — When Google first revealed in 2010 that cars it was using to map streets were also sweeping up sensitive personal information from wireless home networks, it called the data collection a mistake. On Saturday, federal regulators charged ...
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Google fined $25000, but cleared of Street View data misuse
USA TODAY (blog)
By Mike Snider, USA TODAY Google deliberately impeded the Federal Communications Commission's investigation into how the technology firm used data gathered as part of its Street View project, the agency says. The FCC notified Google that it has ...
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USA TODAY (blog)
Feds fine Google for impeding probe into data collection
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal regulators Saturday charged that Google had "deliberately impeded and delayed" an investigation into the collection of data for its Street View service -- some of it sensitive and personal -- and fined the search giant $25000.
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Low Android Revenues No Worry for Google
PCWorld
By Brad Reed, NetworkWorld Google CEO Larry Page isn't concerned about Android's lack of revenues, at least for the time being. During a first-quarter earnings conference call last week, Page was asked what Android's strategic value is to Google since ...
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Google to split stock to keep power with founders
Indianapolis Star
By Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (WTW) — Googleimproved its short-term finances even as it seeks to preserve its long-term interests. The online search leader reported a 61 percent increase in its net income for the first three ...
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Early Google worker in memoir tells it like it was
Sacramento Bee
By Allen Pierleoni Google Inc. is the epitome of the Silicon Valley success story, a tech company that literally started in a garage and went global. Larry Page and Sergey Brin masterminded the concept when they were computer science graduate students ...
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Why Facebook needs to build a browser
CNET
Facebook can no longer rely on Microsoft to keep Google Chrome at bay. It needs to fight back with its own browser. by Ben Parr April 14, 2012 10:40 AM PDT Follow @benparr Microsoft is getting its ass kicked by Google. Sometime in the next 12 months, ...
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The Man With the Google Glasses
New York Times
This is the promise of Google's Project Glass, which released the video I've just described earlier this month, as a preview of a still-percolating project that aspires to implant the equivalent of an iPhone into a pair of science-fiction spectacles.
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New York Times
Google Art Project brings the museum to you
Eagle Tribune
By Bruce Smith AP The Internet's virtual art gallery has a more Southern flavor now that art museums in South Carolina and Georgia have joined the GoogleArt Project. Now images of dozens of works from both the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and ...
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Larry Page: Google targets budget tablets
ITworld.com
After the success of the Kindle Fire, Google sees plenty of space for more tablets at the lower end; at the top, few challenge the iPad. April 14, 2012, 7:27 AM — Google is set to push a new wave of budget tablets, Chief Executive Larry Page says.
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Google's doodle for the kissing photographer
CNET
Robert Doisneau, who shot the iconic street photographs that have adorned the walls of so many student dorm rooms, gets a Google doodle to celebrate his 100th birthday. by Chris Matyszczyk April 14, 2012 8:37 AM PDT The uplifting thing about Google's ...
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Google: Certain investments 'not for the faint-hearted'
Globe and Mail
The founders of Google Inc. GOOG-Q rewarded shareholders this week with what they called an "effective" stock split, but they also rewarded themselves in the unique approach they took. It's also notable that Larry Page and Sergey Brin were up front ...
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Ostrow: The future's so bright, we'll have to wear Google shades?
Denver Post
By Joanne Ostrow In this image made from the Google[x] group's "Project Glass" video launched last week on YouTube, the viewer looks through an early prototype of Google's futuristic Internet-connected glasses. Can't wait to get my Google glasses.
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Robert Doisneau Photos Featured in Google Doodle
Search Engine Watch
by Danny Goodwin, April 14, 2012 Comments Four pictures snapped by French photographer Robert Doisneau are highlighted on Google's home page today. Doisneau, who was born 100 years ago today, essentially did at the time what Google now does on a ...
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Are Apple And Valve Cooperating on an Answer to Google Glasses?
Forbes
Google lifted the veil on its bold “Project Glass” project recently, and reactions were mixed. But now that a major tech company has officially raised the idea of wearable computers, it can't be long before other outfits start throwing around similar ...
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Google's stock split raises questions
The New Age Online
An unusual stock split designed to preserve Google Inc founders' control of the Web search leader raised questions and some grumbling on Wall Street, even as investors focused on the company's short-term business concerns. Shares of Google closed 4 ...
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Businesses can learn from Google's Campus
Telegraph.co.uk
Google's Campus, the company's first special hub for start-ups, has reimagined the office concept to fit 90 companies into one building. Businesses should take note, writes Emma Barnett. By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor In a week where headlines ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Texas Juries Warm to Google as Patent Owners Try Suing Elsewhere (Washn)
OregonLive.com
WASHINGTON — Google and United Continental Holdings won two patent-infringement trials this year in a courthouse where that's not supposed to happen. The courts in the Eastern District of Texas, which includes the Tyler courthouse where Google and ...
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Instagram sees a 10 million user jump from just 10 days ago
Washington Post
Instagram hasn't officially confirmed the 40 million user amount (we've asked for confirmation), but the number makes sense given that its Android app has already reached the 5 million to 10 million install range on Google Play and that the company has ...
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FCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25000 For ...
Marketing Land
The US Federal Communications Commission has clearedGoogle of any legal wrong-doing over its Street View cars that intercepted wifi transmissions. That's the good news for the company. The bad news? The FCC is fining Google $25000 for “willfully and ...
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Marketing Land
RBC Capital Sets Google Price Target at $850.00 (GOOG)
Daily Political
Analysts at RBC Capital (NYSE: RY) raised their price target on shares ofGoogle (NASDAQ: GOOG) from $800.00 to $850.00 in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday. The firm currently has an “outperform” rating on the stock.
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What Becomes of Beleaguered Legend Sony?
Barron's
Also in tech: an odd new class of shares at Google. There just aren't that many great outfits in the world of electronics that can whet consumers' appetite while also commanding profitable prices at retail. Apple (ticker: AAPL), of course, ...
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Keep your website off of Google's naughty list
ITworld.com
Google will soon penalize 'overly optimized' websites. How can your website remain on the search giant's good side? April 14, 2012, 7:28 AM — Google'sprincipal engineer, Matt Cutts, dropped serious hints in March about an imminent change to Google's ...
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Google stock split irks Wall Street as ad concerns cause share drop
gulfnews.com
New York An unusual stock split designed to preserve Google Inc founders' control of the internet search leader raised questions and some grumbling on Wall Street, even as investors focused on the company's short-term business concerns.
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New Features and Pricing for Data Feed to Google Product Search
PR Web (press release)
Validation reports, more frequent updates, and product count monitoring are new features included with Aten Software's service for submitting product data to Google Product Search and other comparison shopping engines. New pricing took effect today for ...
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SEO Agency Micrositez UK Launches Industry News Feature to FeedGoogle Panda
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
According to their founder and CEO Scot Crone, Google's latest round of algorithmic updates intends to reward those whose sites are producing high quality, relevant and newsworthy content. Mr Crone said this: “The Panda has an insatiable hunger for ...
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SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Oracle gets ready to battle Google - Tech News Today
San Francisco Luxury News
SAN FRANCISCO: Oracle Corp is set to go to trial next week against GoogleInc in a high-stakes dispute over smartphone technology, the biggest case in what is shaping up to be an intense year in court for the enterprise software giant.
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After 25 years, boy finds mom via Google Earth
GMA News
After 25 long years, an Indian boy was reunited with his mother, with the help of satellite images provided by Google Earth. Saroo Brierley was five years old when he got lost in 1986, while working as a sweeper on India's trains, ...
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Credit Suisse Boosts Price Target on Google (GOOG)
Daily Political
Investment analysts at Credit Suisse (NYSE: CS) lifted their target price on shares of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to $770.00 in a note issued to investors on Friday. The firm currently has an “outperform” rating on the stock. Shares ofGoogle opened at ...
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Getting Listed In Google News?
By blacknight
Apart from the official guidelines, does anyone have any tips or experiences to share about getting listed in Google News? Trying to get a news site I'
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Google CEO Larry Page is "Excited" - Liz Gannes - News - AllThingsD
By Liz Gannes
Having noticed the Google CEO's fondness for using variations of "exciting" and "excited" when discussing his company's products and businesses, we at AllThingsD had a bit of fun with his recent earnings call transcripts.
AllThingsD
Industry News - Google Speaks Up About Links and Penalties: Link ...
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Audience: In-house and agency SEOs. Top takeaways: • Google, in line with efforts to be more communicative with ...
www.bruceclay.com/.../googles-speaks-up-about-links-and-pe...
Getting Into Google News
How do I get visibility and recognition in Google News search results? Here are a couple of ways.
lawyerist.com/getting-into-google-news/
Technology News – Google about to race the low cost tablets
Get to know more about the ongoing speculation regarding Google planning to launch a low priced tablet computer stuffed with Android and other specific ...
www.igennie.net/.../technology-news-google-abut-to-race-the-...
TripAdvisor complains about Google to EU regulators - Travel ...
Online travel agency TripAdvisor has asked EU antitrust regulators to halt what it calls anti-competitive practices by Google, adding to more than a dozen ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../tripadvisor-complains-about-google-...
Google CEO Larry Page 'driven by paranoia about ... - NEWS.com.au
GOOGLE co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation.
www.news.com.au/...by.../story-e6frfm1i-1226318341656
Bad News: Google Is Doing the Corporate Future-Vision Video ...
Google's video makes me less excited about Project Glass than I was when it was a mysterious rumor. After all, nobody releases these movies about stuff that's ...
techland.time.com/.../bad-news-google-is-doing-the-corporate...
BBC News - Google and Viacom: YouTube copyright lawsuit back on
A lawsuit by media giant Viacom against Google over copyrighted videos on YouTube can be heard in court again.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17631703
Google Project Glass: a new way to see the world | World news ...
Project Glass, from Google's secretive Google X lab, has posted a video preview of its bleeding edge goggles.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/apr/.../google
Why Google isn't worried about Android revenue — Mobile ...
And while it seems like very old news, Android has really only been a mobile phenomenon since late 2010 and into 2011. Google can afford to take the long...
gigaom.com/.../why-google-isnt-worried-about-androids-reve...
News: Google tablet rumored info, nothing to get excited about ...
The guys and gals at Verge just released more info on the Google tablet I mentioned a few days ago. It's definitely looking like it's going to be a dedicated media ...
www.android-invasion.net/.../news-google-tablet-rumored-inf...
Google Glasses: Will You Want Google Tracking Your ... - ABC News
Image Credit: Google The world was stunned by the first real look at Google'sProject Glass. In a video released by the search giant, we got a a captivating look ...
abcnews.go.com/.../google-glasses-will-you-want-google-track...
TripAdvisor complains about Google to EU regulators - Yahoo! News
News: BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Online travel agency TripAdvisor has asked EU antitrust regulators to halt what it calls anti-competitive practices by Google, ...
news.yahoo.com/tripadvisor-complains-google-eu-regulators-...
Associated Press, Google award six $20000 scholarships to 'new ...
The Online News Association, the world's largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program. The AP-Google Journalism and ...
journalists.org/.../associated-press-google-award-six-20000-sc...
Hatchlings takes its troubles with Google to the web - Silicon Prairie ...
Hatchlings CEO Brad Dwyer published a blog post today detailing its history with Google. Hatchlings, a Facebook game billed as "the world's largest virtual...
www.siliconprairienews.com/.../hatchlings-takes-its-troubles-w...
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