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A company called Glympse, Inc. launched a mobile phone app allowing users to share their location and provide a GPS-tracking map to…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for an online campaign to help with the release of two American women journalists being held in North Korea. Clinton made the remarks at a graduation ceremony at Barnard College, a women's university in New York City. "We have two young women journalists right now imprisoned in North Korea and you can get busy on the Internet…
On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court issued a restraining order against Yahoo, MSN, AllTheWeb, and Altavista to prevent the search engines from allowing mortgage finance scammers to use a government URL in sponsored search results, thus representing themselves as the operator of the site.
Google CEO Eric Schimdt was not the only web company figure to deliver a commencement address yesterday. Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang spoke at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Yang's speech had a different tone that Schmidt's. Whereas Schmidt discussed everything from cheesesteak to the meaning of life, Yang jumped in with a tone suggesting that things aren't as bad as they seem.
Eric Schmidt gave a commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday. The full video is below, but I have pulled out some of the good quotes from it (there were quite a few). He begins with congratulations and talks about how great Penn is, and how there are 250 alumni who work at Google. He says it's the most desirable place for Google to…
Unhappy Googlers may soon be supplied with about as many muffin baskets, pats on the back, and intriguing projects as they can handle. Apparently Google's developing an algorithm to identify which employees are most likely to quit, and it's acting on the info in an attempt to keep top workers around.
