Yesterday Google showed off its forthcoming Chrome OS, leaving many to wonder how exactly the company will monetize it. The answer: it won't. Since Google derives 97% of its revenue from online ads, it simply wants you using a computer that is always online. Specifically, it wants you on a...
The AP, which has long blamed Google and other Internet entities for "stealing" its content, obtained an early copy of Sarah Palin's book, scanned it, and started breaking news stories about it five days before it was officially released. Copyright violation? We ask an AP exec. by David Weir
Google officially took the wraps off its Chrome OS today, but you won't see it on a computer near you for some time. Until then, here's a video overview. by Rick Broida
Bayer BAY is trying out the new Google-invented ad format that includes a fixed link to a drug's risk and side effect information. The ads are for Yaz, Bayer's troubled contraceptive. But Bayer's Google ads are outnumbered and surrounded by those from lawyers advertising for clients to sue Bayer over...
Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers. Although the Chrome OS will not be available to end-users for at least another year, Microsoft is already citing Windows 7 as a more viable alternative for working on both the...
Google is derailing the GrandCentral Web site in order to get fully onboard its Google Voice train.Google sent out an e-mail to GrandCentral users Saturday announcing that it will be closing down the GrandCentral Web site on December 31.Google Voice, of course, is the new version of the GrandCentral technology...
By Prince McLeanPublished: 05:00 PM EST Google's Android is working to match the iPhone App Store's mobile software market but with fewer restrictions for developers. This article is the fourth in a series examining how Android stacks up in comparison to the iPhone as a smartphone software platform, with this...
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof is controversially asking web users to " Boycott Bing ", claiming that Bing is censoring Simplified Chinese queries even outside the People's Republic of China. Last night, Bing responded to Kristof's Friday afternoon posting, citing a programming bug but failing...
Filed under: Internet , OS Updates , Google , Open Source Google's co-founder, Sergey Brin, spoke to some reporters yesterday, after the Chrome OS presentation . Citing the common WebKit and Linux code found in both...
BloggingStocks: Twitter calls Google (GOOG) a "good role model," but says it isn't ready to rush down the road to advertising.
Nonetheless, an ad-based revenue model is something that cofounder Biz Stone says they "will be looking to do down the line." But, for ... Read more
BloggingStocks: Google (GOOG) is letting a few developers peek behind the curtain. The early look the company's new operating system, Chrome, is happening in true Google style: by invitation only. When it's released, which should be in time for the holidays, ... Read more
We wrapped up another week of big winners. Every closed trade was in the GR$$N! We do have 2 trades that expired, which will be reported in the Monthly Wrap-Up for November. Record gold was once again the big news, and we captured the trade with options on GLD. Here are the closed trades this week [...]
With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.[More...]
BloggingStocks: Yahoo! (YHOO) is the latest company that wants to optimize its search results for Twitter. This follows moves by Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) to integrate Twitter data into their search results. Unlike its competitors, however, Yahoo! wants to ... Read more
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