Not content to watch Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and others eat up all the revenue from sales of electronic books, Google is busy prepping its own digital book store called “Google Editions.”
The project is aiming to launch before the end of the year here in the U.S., Google’s Scott Dougall told the Wall Street Journal. And unlike …
Google Me is back in the news yet again. Mashable says that sources tell them that the purported social media site or functionality that is rumored to take on Facebook tell them the product will be pushed back to spring 2011 because of design delays, execution and, most importantly, the point of the whole function.
European Union regulators are looking into Google’s business practices to see if their model has not forced many search engines out of business by using their dominant position in the market. Reports alleged that the company purposely put their rival websites lower in their search engine results to drive down traffic to those sites, …
My what a difference a day makes. Yesterday, the word on the street was that Google was getting close to buying local deals site Groupon for an estimated $3 billion. Today, that estimate has doubled to $6 billion.
All Things D reports that unnamed sources are saying a deal could even close this week. The detailed terms of the …
The latest version of Google’s free mapping software, Google Earth 6, is now available for download.
The program integrates Google Maps’ “Street View” function, allowing you to take a detailed first-person, 360-degree look at any street in the world that’s been panoramically photographed by one of the company’s Street View …
Oh, Germany. You’ve given us plenty to think about today when it comes to Google’s controversial Street View service.
A supposed Street View-captured birth made the rounds earlier and even though Google’s team in Germany confirmed it to be fake, you have to hand it to whomever took the time to either stage the photo in magnificent
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Google TV may find itself losing programming, but if the New York Post is to be believed, the online giant is close to a deal that will give it the digital rights to the entire Miramax back catalogue.
Google’s purchase is far from a done deal. For one thing, Google is negotiating with Farmyard Holdings, which doesn’t actually own …
Are you there Google? It’s me, Doug. Whether it’s right or not, you’re getting worked left and right with this Google TV thing. Being blocked by all the major networks was bad enough, but now Viacom’s blocking you too.
Sure, Viacom is only a handful of basic cable stations but most of those stations represent the key demographic …
It seems that Google is trying to take another acquisition: Groupon. All Things Digital has sources saying Google is in talks to buy the social buying website. Yahoo has attempted to do the same in the past, and Google is offering more than the reported $2-3 billion the other company offered last year.
(More on TIME.com: Facebook …
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has passed controversial new legislation to fight internet piracy that will allow the Justice Department to shut down domain names of sites that, in their view, enable piracy. The legislation was opposed by many, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amazon.com and Google, all of whom felt that …
If you’ve ever tried to edit a Google Docs file from your phone, you may have said, “This is hard!” or “This, I do not like!” or “Do I like this? Not really!” In the past, you’d have to roll the dice by pulling up the full desktop version of a document and hope your phone had a nimble enough signal to handle all the Javascript magic …
“Boutiques uses computer vision and machine learning technology to visually analyze your taste and match it to items you would like.” That’s the promise of Google’s latest project, Boutiques.com.
You can explore virtual boutiques created by movers and shakers within the fashion industry, but the real draw lies in the six-step …
