PayPal Inc. is suing Google and two of its executives -- accusing them of stealing trade secrets and poaching employees -- in a move that ups the stakes as the two companies vie for a piece of the fast-growing mobile payments market. The suit, filed in a Santa Clara County federal court, came h... Read more...
Pharmacy industry groups warned Google years ago that it should be doing a better job screening ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws. But Google didn't respond to their warnings, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. Earlier this month, an SEC filing revealed that Googl... Read more...
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26/05/2011,
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A Google Partner Event in New York kicks off in a couple hours with all signs pointing to an announcement about a mobile payments platform that'll let you tap your phone against a card reader to pay for an item, using technology that has been implemented in Japan for years. (Update 12:24 p.m.: G... Read more...
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24/05/2011,
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In some ways, all the uproar about Apple saving location data on its iOS device users is old news. Guess what? Big Brother, or Big Google, also collects geo-location information from its mobile, Android-powered devices. It’s like anything else in computing: geo-location can provide great servi... Read more...
So important is the principle of free speech to Google, that the search giant is ready to stand up for sites like the Pirate Bay as European governments prepare to launch new laws to block them. “Hopefully, the French or any other country won’t pass laws that are so foolish they force Goog... Read more...
The San Jose Mercury News landed some leaked emails from Google CEO Larry Page, as well as other top Google executives, which show how important gathering location data is for its mobile plans. Last year, Motorola, one of Google's biggest mobile partners, was planning on using Skyhook Wirel... Read more...
USA Today reports the latest chapter in big-PR sleaze, this time involving former CNBC tech correspondent Jim Goldman, who is now a PR rep at Burson Marsteller. According to USA Today reporters Jon Swartz and Byron Acohido, Goldman tried to pitch USA Today on a story about scandalous Google privacy... Read more...
Google's decision to launch a music locker service yesterday (May 10) was a big topic of discussion on the sidelines of the NARM conference here this week. The reaction from the more veteran music industry attendees is simply anger. "People are pissed," said one source from a major record lab... Read more...
Google has made no bones about its not-so-modest intention to “organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It turns out, unsurprisingly, Microsoft has similar ambitions and is planning to “index every database in the world and expose it in a structur... Read more...