Google Gets Former DOJ Lobbyist

Lobbyists work on behalf of all sorts of nasty causes - some people might not approve of oil companies and tobacco corporations, for example.  But lobbyists also work on behalf of charitable organizations and the like.  And now one more lobbyist works for Google.

Google Reaches Into RSS & Social Network Ads

In 2005 JupiterResearch noted that less than 10 percent of RSS feeds had advertising in them, and no major advertisers were using feeds as part of their marketing strategies.  How the times have changed.  Google is acquiring Feedburner and sees it as a way for its base of hundreds of thousands of advertisers to reach some of the most active groups of Web users -- social…

Judge Won’t Dismiss Second Life Land Grab Case

Warning: The lawyers involved with this topic will take your mind and twist it until it bursts forth with cerebral irreconcilability. Be assured, this is real and, probably, legal. Just hit the reset button on your synapses and you should be fine.

Google Invests In Israeli R&D Center

Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation.  You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there.  Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world - Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.