Europe vs Google: EU accuses search giant of market dominance abuse in EU antitrust case and launches Android probe April 15, 2015 Five years after the European Commission first began investigating Google's dominance of internet search, formal charges against the search giant have finally been filed, accusing Google of anti-competitive behaviour. The EC's competition commissioner claims Google favours its own comparison of shopping products in search result pages over those of other shopping sites and has taken the [...]
Borgen muse Margrethe Vestager tipped to finally shake up Google in anti-trust probe April 14, 2015 She is said to be the inspiration behind Birgitte Nyborg, the cool-headed Danish prime minister in the hit TV show Borgen. Today, European competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is expected to live up to the go-getting reputation of her fictional counterpart by setting out a list of charges, known as a statement of objections (SO), against [...]
Danish competition guru Margrethe Vestager set to go into battle with Google April 13, 2015 EU official Margrethe Vestager is tipped to lay charges against the internet giant as soon as tomorrow. As a company, Google’s name is so synonymous with searching that it is frequently used as a verb. In other areas the technology giant may not always have been so well-known. But that, say its detractors, has never [...]
April Fools’ Day 2015: Google Maps lets you play Pacman on London streets April 1, 2015 Google has brought some classic '80s arcade fun to the streets of London for April Fools' Day. Anyone using Google Maps to navigate their way to a meeting might want to add some extra time to the journey – there are some ghosts to avoid on London’s most famous streets with this new maps option. [...]
What Google’s new office can teach other firms March 31, 2015 You can achieve real flexible working without the tech giant’s budget. Google received its customary share of attention when it released plans for a new headquarters in California recently. While the workplaces most of us travel to each day may not yet reflect the tech giant’s utopian Mountain View vision, the plans provide a glimpse [...]
Chinese government cyber division accused of hacking Google March 25, 2015 A wing of the Chinese government has been accused of being behind a recent attack on Google, as well as previous hacks on Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo. Anti-censorship organisation GreatFire.org today highlighted a recent admission by Google that it had been the subject of a “man in the middle” (MITM) attack which it traced [...]
Morgan Stanley’s finance boss heads to Google to cut the fat March 24, 2015 GOOGLE’S boundary-pushing projects and famed offices – which can include gyms, pools, music rooms and free restaurants – could face an expenses squeeze, with the appointment of its new chief financial officer. Google yesterday said it hired Ruth Porat, chief financial officer at Morgan Stanley, to its top finance role, a move signalling the tech [...]
Google just hired Morgan Stanley finance chief Ruth Porat as its new CFO March 24, 2015 Google has named a replacement for departing finance chief Patrick Pichette. Ruth Porat will leave her role as finance chief at Morgan Stanley to fill Pichette’s shoes after the long-standing executive revealed he was departing the internet giant just under two weeks ago. Investors responded positively to the news – shares were up by around [...]
This is how Google ended up creating an Ebola-proof tablet March 20, 2015 Design volunteers at Google have helped to develop a way for Ebola health workers to record patient information on tablets without spreading the deadly virus. Concerned that the workers could not input vital information themselves, having instead to shout out numbers to other people using the tablets, charity Medicins Sans Frontieres called on a group [...]
Tag Heuer joins with Google in a smartwatch deal March 19, 2015 LUXURY watchmaker Tag Heuer is partnering Google and Intel to go head-to-head in the emerging smartwatch battleground. The trio announced their plans yesterday to team up at the Swiss trade fair Baselworld, and between them they could produce something that rivals Apple’s recent efforts in the area. The companies described it as “a new era [...]