jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com - 6/16/2009
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Google has been much in the news lately—and not in a good way. Google’s ambitions—particularly in the book field, where it recently settled a lawsuit by publishers over its plans to scan every out-of-print book ever written so as to be searchable—have taken on Microsoftian overtones in the ...
Google Earth Creating Buzz
blog.optionsmentoring.com 2/2/2009 — Google (GOOG, $340.25, up $1.72) is set to unveil its updated Google Earth in a few hours and Wall Street is eagerly awaiting the update. The Google Earth mapping software is one of the most popular free downloads available but what the new Google Earth will soon be able to do will blow your [...]
Six Easy Pieces: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Talks with Boston Journalists
xconomy.com 30 days ago — IT , Web , google
Wade Roush wrote:
There must be some new force pulling West Coast tech CEOs to visit Boston. Last month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was in town ; yesterday it was Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
To mark the unusual occasion, Google invited a raft of journalists to its ...
Google's I.P.O., 5 Years Later
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 8/19/2009 — Five years ago today, Google sold shares to the public for the first time, amid lots of skepticism about how the offering was being handled and whether the Web search company was overhyped and overvalued.
Google Cell Phone Tracker Follows Peoples’ Real-Time Locations
businesspundit.com 2/4/2009 —
Google’s new mobile maps upgrade includes a cell phone tracker that lets you follow your friends’ or families’ locations in real-time. The cell phone tracker is called “Latitude.” It plots a user’s location using cell phone towers, GPS or Wi-Fi ...
The trend is your friend, even in this market
thecuriousinvestor.com 3/12/2009 — A reader of my last post on Google’s current stock performance , took issue with my statement:
It is interesting to note that, in the area marked in the above graph, all short term indicators were overwhelmingly positive just before Google’s swift and violent correction over the last ...
Official Google Blog: Powering a Google search
googleblog.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — Not long ago, answering a query meant traveling to the reference desk of your local library. Today, search engines enable us to access immense quantities of useful information in an instant, without leaving home. Tools like email, online books and ...
Google (GOOG)
wikinvest.com 3/10/2009 — The company has moved to consolidate the online advertising business by announcing the acquisition of DoubleClick in 2007. This move gives Google the capability to manage online display ads (e.g., banners and pop-ups), a medium that has not been the ...
Is Google Too Big To Fail?
portfolio.com 1/29/2009 — Robert Cottrell has a provocative post about the cloud today. Is the future of information in the cloud? Robert has his doubts:
I'd be on the pro-cloud side, were it not for the crash of cloud banking. The message from the banking cloud is that, ...
What Detroit Can Learn From Google
mjperry.blogspot.com 1/30/2009 — Carmakers need to let go of their musty business models and start thinking like 21st century companies—like Google. Google listens to us and trusts us when it releases unfinished products as "betas" so we can tell them what to do next. That's the approach behind Google News, Gmail, and the ...
Sergey Brin's Panicking! Unless He's Not —
The Big Money 6/16/2009
Your nonstory of the day has got to be rumors that Google (GOOG) cofounder Sergey Brin is panicking at the thought of Microsoft 's (MSFT) Bing overtaking his search engine. The story first got going in the pages of the New York Post , which ...
Google Mucks Up Outlook —
The Big Money 6/17/2009
Last week, when Google (GOOG) launched a plug-in that allowed business customers to switch to Google Apps while retaining the Microsoft Outlook interface, industry watchers regarded it as Google's most aggressive effort yet to challenge Microsoft ...