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Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them. The "Dashboard" feature unveiled Thursday pulls together all the data that pour into Google's computers whenever web ... [3 News - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, YouTube LLC

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 101 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Virgin America Inc

Google Gives Free Wi-Fi for the Holidays

Google is hoping to make the upcoming holidays a little better by offering free Wi-Fi access at 47 airports.On the promotional website , Google mentions, "When you’re traveling this holiday season, you can enjoy free WiFi at47 participating airports and ... [Mac Life - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Wi-Fi, Virgin America Inc

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 205 Documents (in Corporate Deals)

AdMob

Google acquires AdMob

Google is acquiring AdMob, one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, for $750 million.AdMob makes technology for serving display ads on mobile phones, and counts 15,000 mobile websites and applications in its network. It also offers advertisers ... [PC Pro - 11/10/2009]

Entities: AdMob, Google Inc, Mobile Advertising, Acquisition

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 27 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google book deal deadline extended

A judge has given Google until the end of the week to revise the terms of its book deal.The New York court is ruling on a settlement between Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will see the search giant create ... [PC Pro - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Deadline, Association of American Publishers, Copyright Infringement, US Department of Justice

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 100 Documents (in Internet & IT)

News Corporation

News Corp may block Google

Sydney - Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch has accused Google of stealing from his News Corp empire, and warned he may block the search engine from accessing its content."People who simply just pick up everything and run with it, steal our stories - we ... [News24.com - 11/10/2009]

Entities: News Corporation, Google Inc, Search Engines, Rupert Murdoch

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 24 Documents (in Health)

Google Launches H1N1 Swine Flu Shot Finder

Google unveiled a brand new feature this week, a flu shot locator, that allows people to search for local clinics offering the or seasonal flu. The Department of Health and Human Services collaborated with Google to create the flu shot finder. Although ... [Huliq.com - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Vaccine, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 42 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google Inc

Google Rolls Out Commerce Search

Little known fact: once upon a time, Google used to be a search company. Crazy, right? The company today rolled out new search property aimed at retail sites. Arriving just in time for the holidays, Google Commerce Search is designed to make retail site ... [PC Magazine - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Google Inc

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 46 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Googles new programming language is a Go

When frustrated by a programming language there is only one thing left to do: create your own. Google has announced a new open source experimental language it is calling Go. Google announced the new language in their and stated that it has the development ... [Geek.com - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Mobile Operating System, Google Android

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 40 Documents (in Internet & IT)

The race to own mobile advertising

As was trumpeted across the Internet Monday, Google (GOOG) is buying mobile display advertising startup AdMob for $750 million in (increasingly) precious Google stock. Wall Street digested the news and sent Google stock up almost $11.Citi analyst Mark ... [Fortune - 11/10/2009]

Entities: AdMob, Google Inc, Mobile Advertising

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 158 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google Should Make Apple Beg for Maps Navigation

Erick Schonfeld submits: When Google (GOOG) announced what is clearly the best car navigation application on any mobile Wednesday, it didn’t just take a swipe at GPS navigation companies such as Garmin (GRMN) and TomTom (TMOAF.PK). It took a swipe at ... [Gadgets Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking ... - 10/29/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Apple Inc, Erick Schonfeld

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 30 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google Search By Voice In Mandarin Chinese

Google is truly going international - by incorporating Mandarin Chinese in their voice search. Smart move, since Chinese is the next widely spoken language next to English. While the program is still in the initial stages of further development, it looks ... [HardwareZone Philippines PortaLite - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, Nokia S60, China

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 10 Documents

The Google Books Settlement Hearing Gets Postponed

The Google Books saga is getting dragged on for a few more days as the deadline for presenting a revised settlement deal was pushed back until Friday. Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the two parties involved in ... [Softpedia - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Google Books, Lawsuit, Google Inc, Association of American Publishers

Blogs

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Google tries its own take on customer service [CNET News.com - 11/05/2009] How will Google manage growing demand for support for its free products, as people rely more and more on its services?(Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) If ...
Google privacy controls: Most people won't care [CNET News.com - 11/05/2009] As the company harvests copious quantities of personal data, it becomes dramatically better at serving customer needs... In other words, Google gets stronger with ...
Be Afraid, Google Dashboard Will Tell You How M... [Search Engine Journal - 11/05/2009] Email Arnold Zafra Follow me on TwitterSorry about the long title but I just couldn’t think of a better way of expressing my amazement at how much Google knows about ...
Attacks on Google suggest it is winning [CNET News.com - 10/29/2009] You can look at Google's growing market share in Android, its dominance in search, and elsewhere as signs that it's winning in its markets. But for me, the best ...
Google’s New Homepage Motto: "This Space I... [All Things Digital - 10/30/2009] Larry and Sergey told me we could only add this to the homepage if we took a word away — keeping the “weight” of the homepage unchanged at 28. Given that the new ...

Audio/Video

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How Does Facebook Know I'm Gay? [Slate Magazine - 11/06/2009]
Google May Redefine GPS [Slate Magazine - 10/29/2009]
Let's have fun with the Google search box. [Slate Magazine - 11/02/2009]
Google Expands Political Power, Spends More on ... [Bloomberg - YouTube - 11/09/2009]
The winner of the Google Suggest contest. [Slate Magazine - 11/11/2009]

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