Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google named ”word of the decade”

Technology.am (Jan 14, 2010) — Google has been named the “word of the decade” by a grouping of American speech scholars.
In its yearly Word of the Year vote, the American Dialect Society (ADS) said that the word ‘tweet’, derived from sending a short message by means of Twitter (noun) and the act of [...]

Subsidize me, Common on Google

Technology.am (Jan 07, 2010) — The price of Google’s new Nexus One is $529 and admittedly a small price to shell out for the eternal enjoyment promised by its backers. For $179, one can get the similar device through T-Mobile, because the wireless carrier expects to charge $79.99 per month for at least two years. [...]

Chrome passes Safari in browser handling

Technology.am (Jan 04, 2010) — In its 15th month of public being, Google’s Chrome browser surpassed Safari for share of international usage in December.
Chrome jumped from 3.9 percent to 4.6 percent of usage, according to statistics that analytics firm Net Applications publishes based on the 160 million monthly visitors to the system of Web sites [...]

Google sued by Chinese author

Technology.am (Dec 29, 2009) — A Beijing judge has told the Chinese author Mian Mian, who is suing Google over its preparation to form an online library, to hold settlement discussion.
Following a two-hour trial, the court ordered both sides to have a discussion although did not set a time limit for reporting back, according to [...]

Google’s Admob plans examined by US regulator

Technology.am (Dec . 24, 2009) — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked for additional information about Google’s strategy to acquire Admob, a company specializing in ads for small screens.
The search engine giant said previous month that it hoped to purchase the Silicon Valley start-up for $750m (£449m) in stocks.
Google’s group product manager Paul Feng [...]

Yelp discards $500 million Google bid

Technology.am (Dec. 22, 2009) — Google’s supposed $500 million bid to acquire local reviews site, Yelp, has been ‘rejected’, according to reports. The news leaked that the two companies had been in talks, at the end of last week and Yelp, is believed to have rejected the tech giant’s offer over the weekend.
Both Google [...]

Google fined over French books copyright case

Technology.am (18 Dec, 2009) — A Paris court has found Google blameworthy of copyright infringement in a judgment which could have consequences for its strategy to digitize the world’s books. The search giant is required to shell out 300,000 Euros (£266,000) in indemnity and interest to French publisher La Martiniere.
It was one amongst many to [...]

Bing and Google both budding, at yahoo’s expenditure

Technology.am (Dec 16, 2009) — Even with the danger of Microsoft’s Bing, Google continues to take a larger share of the search engine market. However Bing is budding, too; it’s Yahoo that is trailing behind.
According to comScore’s November statistics (via eWeek), Google and Bing are basically having a feeding whirl on Yahoo’s vanished market share. [...]

`Google introduces Nexus One phones’

Technology.am (Dec. 14, 2009) — Google Inc plans to trade its own cellphone straight to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in an exceptional tactical move, the Wall Street Journal cited sources.
Called the Nexus One and made by Smartphone maker HTC, the phone will run on the search giant’s Android operating system [...]

Google sues over suspected work-at-home scams

Technology.am (Dec. 08, 2009) — Google is taking authorized action to end companies from supposedly using the search giant’s name to trap public into paying for supposed work-at-home kits advertised online and in e-mails.
The company filed a court case on Monday in federal court in Salt Lake City in opposition to Pacific WebWorks and other, [...]