03/31/2011
GottaBeMobile
Google may not be just standardizing the experience of Android 3.0 Honeycomb on tablets, but the Android software-maker may be looking to create a standard for the ARM-based processor that is used on those tablets according to the latest reports. How Google hopes to approach this is still unclear, but developers are said to be [...]
03/28/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. is teaming up with MasterCard Inc. and Citigroup Inc. to embed technology in Android mobile devices that would allow consumers to make purchases by waving their smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Nexus S [...]
03/25/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company.
Since Google said in January that longtime CEO Eric Schmidt was stepping aside, Mr. Page has made a series [...]
02/15/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
European phone operators said Internet companies such as Google Inc. shouldn’t be allowed to dominate content services and that platforms must be kept open for all companies.
Regulators are willing to step in for the sake of openness, Vodafone Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Vittorio Colao said today at the Mobile World Congress in [...]
02/03/2011
Wall Street Journal
One of Microsoft Corp.’s top Internet executives called allegations by Google Inc. that Microsoft copies its rival’s Internet search results “insulting,” as the two companies amped up their verbal jousting.
Yusuf Mehdi, a Microsoft senior vice president, sought to forcefully discredit the results of an experiment Google managers recently conducted, which they say [...]
02/2011
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Google Inc. accused rival Microsoft Corp. of copying its Internet search results, the latest salvo in the competition between the two technology behemoths.
Google made the claim Tuesday after releasing the results of a test it carried out purporting to show how Google’s results for search terms were copied [...]
20/2011
Giga Om
Google is driven by search and has dreams of driverless cars, fiber to the home networks and other innovations. But the company believes this year’s immediate strategic initiatives are all about mobile, according to CEO Eric Schmidt. Writing in Harvard Business Review, Schmidt said 2011 comes down to three priorities for Google: Developing fast [...]
01/20/2011
Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. surprised the technology world by naming co-founder Larry Page to replace longtime Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, the biggest management shake-up since the Internet search giant was an obscure California start-up.
Google said late today that co-founder Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive. Julia Angwin talks to Lauren Goode [...]
01/07/2011
Bloomberg BusinessWeek – Online
Since mid-December, Google (GOOG) has been handing out hundreds of kits to local businesses in Portland, Ore., as part of a trial called Hotpot. The kits include window decals that use near-field communication, a low-power technology that beams and receives wireless information from up to four inches away. When customers with NFC-equipped [...]
12/14/2010
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
Touch-sensitive: handsets that use the Android operating system, such as the HTC Evo, are being activated at a rate of 110m a year
After two decades in the mobile communications industry, Andy Rubin, Google’s head of mobile software, has found himself at the controls of a runaway train.
The internet [...]
