Google is planning to introduce a system to detect a form of domain registration abuse known as domain kiting. In so doing, the company stands to lose millions in advertising revenue, though it may gain far more in user trust and goodwill.
Registrants of Internet domains generally have a five-day grace period between the time […]
[#3: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code] By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY
A federal airwaves auction starting Thursday is expected to bring consumers improved wireless broadband services and will likely provide the last opportunity to create a nationwide challenger to the big cellphone companies.
The Federal Communications Commission is auctioning off the last big swath of airwaves for the foreseeable […]
By Kenneth Corbin
Testy exchanges punctuated yesterday’s debate over the relevance of privacy concerns in the European Commission’s (EC) review of the proposed Google-DoubleClick merger.
At yesterday’s meeting in Brussels, consumer advocates appealed to European lawmakers and regulators to examine privacy concerns when evaluating Google’s acquisition of the online advertising provider.
The complaints came in spite […]
By Joseph Heaven
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Esmertec, the Swiss developer of software for Google Inc.’s mobile-phone system, said annual sales may have beaten its forecast on demand for wireless features.
Esmertec, which had sales of $24.8 million in 2006, last September predicted 2007 revenue of $35.5 million.
“We will meet this and maybe a little bit more,” […]
By MIGUEL HELFT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Of all the iPhone’s features, none had reviewers gushing more than its Internet browser. It was the first cellphone browser that promised something resembling the experience of surfing the Internet on a PC. Santa helped deliver on that promise.
On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic […]
By NOAM COHEN
IT probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise to learn that while employees in many companies sit in the cafeteria gossiping about work, or the boss, or the competition, at Google they are doing something else.
At Google, employees are encouraged to go online and place bets on a prediction market — an exchange […]
By Reuters
The names of two banks and the word “stock” were among the most googled terms in China last year, according to a Google China list seen Thursday.
China Merchants Bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and “stock” ranked second, third, and fourth, according to a list supplied by Google China on its Web […]
By Chris O’Brien
If you owned shares in Silicon Valley’s 150 biggest companies, then 2007 turned out to be a very good year: The SV150 stock index gained 20.2 percent last year, easily beating the Nasdaq and the other major indexes.
But that good fortune didn’t extend to the valley’s wider universe of public companies. More saw […]
By Elinor Mills
If Google were an adolescent lad, 2007 would mark the year his voice cracked.
Last year, Google remained at the top of its search class. This year, the company tried out for the wireless varsity teams, played hooky with YouTube, and courted cheerleader DoubleClick.
There was a wave of consolidation in the online advertising space, […]
By Andrew R Hickey
Google (NSDQ:GOOG) found itself facing unfriendly fire this week when Reader users learned that information they thought they were sharing with friends was also being passed on to every one else in their contact lists.
Announced earlier this month, the tweak to Google Reader, an online RSS feed service that gathers blog and […]