Google As Corporate Cop Creates Enemies
One, among many, things can be said about Google: The company has taken punches from some pretty powerful hitters and has not gone away. The drama that has played out over the years has lived up to its hype and shows no sign of falling curtains. The drama will just get grander actually, as Google encroaches on the territories of more empires.
Schmidt Says Google Founders Are Adults
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says the Google founders have grown up."The boys have grown up," Schmidt said at a news conference before the company’s annual meeting referring to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google, News Corp Might Be Bidding On Blinkx
A word here, a number there . . . nothing remotely solid has been established, but rumors that Google and/or News Corp bid on video search engine Blinkx were enough to send the company’s stock up 53 percent today.
Microsoft Sends Off Its Yahoo Board Nominees
People who would have voted in favor of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo, were they on the Yahoo board, no longer need to wonder if Microsoft will nominate them to do that task.
Now There Are Two Net Neutrality House Bills
Congressional Net Neutrality proponents appear to be taking a multi-pronged approach to passing legislation to cement what many call the First Amendment of the Internet, a moniker that may oversimplify it a bit. Two days after Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) Internet Freedom and Preservation Act was debated in the House Energy Committee, Representatives John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) re-introduce the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act.
Google Web Security For Enterprise Launches
Employees can’t work well when their computers are infected with various sorts of malware. Employees won’t work well when they’re looking at naked people or other not-really-work-related content. And so the new Google Web Security for Enterprise service aims to fix both issues.
Google Image Search Meeting Image Ads
Display advertising, where Google does not shine as brightly as it does in search ads, could be coming to the image searching side of the site.
Twitter Blacklist Bites Thumb At Obnoxious People
A public service or draconian narc network? You be the judge. It didn’t take long for a few things to happen with Twitter: for so-called spammers to seek out a "marketing" advantage; for Twitterers to fight back against said spammers; and for a moral authority to form.
Bill Gates Talks Up Vista Sales
To be fair, I think any one of us would be thrilled to move 140 million copies of something. But Microsoft is held to a higher standard, and so Bill Gates’s positive comment about Vista sales is raising some eyebrows.
Ha ha, your picture's on the Internet
The bellowing fellow now immortalized as Mr. Angry Overreaction Man demanded a photographer not put his raging visage online. You can guess what happened next.