Why healthcare could be Google Glass’s biggest market August 22, 2014 Google Glass, the wearable tech device, may be an exciting new development – but with a $1,500 price tag (not to mention its less-than-fashionable appearance), its appeal to the consumer market has so far been limited. But during a conference yesterday, the man widely credited with creating the Glass identified what could end up being [...]
Greggs scum hack prompts Twitter team to “bribe” Google with doughnuts August 19, 2014 Greggs bakery’s cheeks were left burning as hot as the middle of its sausage rolls yesterday, when someone who Googled the firm found that its logo had been hacked to read “providing shit to scum for 70 years”. Naturally, the news went viral and Greggs was trending on Twitter. “We are aware of the [...]
Google shares up 1,000 per cent a decade after IPO August 19, 2014 A decade ago yesterday, just three years after the dot-com crash, a Silicon Valley search startup called Google debuted on the Nasdaq for $85 a share. Shares, priced at the low end of Google’s $85 to $95 range, jumped 18 per cent during the first day of trading to $100.34, valuing the company at over [...]
YouTube Music Key: Here’s what we know about Google’s music video subscription service to rival Spotify and iTunes August 19, 2014 Google is poised to launch its music streaming app to rival Spotify and Apple’s iTunes appear, according to details about the service that have apparently leaked online. Mooted for a summer release date when YouTube first announced its plans back in June, the service will be called “YouTube Music Key” and priced at $9.99 a month [...]
Not sure about an acquisition? Take Google’s toothbrush test August 18, 2014 Google loves making an acquisition. This year alone it’s made 24. But would you believe us if we told you chief executive Larry Page uses a toothbrush to decide whether to gobble up a company or not. Well, it’s true. Sort of. The New York Times has revealed Page has something called “the toothbrush [...]
Google to help lay $300m undersea internet cable to Japan August 11, 2014 By the end of 2016 Google and a group of Asian telecommunications firms will have built $300m worth of internet cable, joining Japan to the US. The project, called "Faster", will cater to rising bandwidth usage and will begin immediately. Internet traffic spanning the trans-Pacific route is becoming "intense" as smartphones, high broadband usage and [...]
Google’s mystery barge sold for scrap August 3, 2014 Google’s mysterious floating barge project – which drew speculation last year when three barges in Portland and San Francisco were found to be owned by the search giant – has been scrapped. Google eventually confirmed the barges would be floating showrooms for its latest technology, such as Google Glass. However, Google has now sold off [...]
Wikipedia link to be removed from Google under “right to be forgotten” ruling August 3, 2014 Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed that Google will soon remove a link to an entry in Wikipedia to comply with the EU’s “right to be forgotten” ruling. It’s the first time an entry to the online encyclopedia will be removed from Google search and follows the removal of thousands links to sites, including the [...]
Google is being sued again. This time by Max Mosley over sex party pictures July 29, 2014 Max Mosley, the former boss of Formula One, has filed a lawsuit with the UK High Court in a bid to stop Google from gathering and publishing images of him at a sex party. Originally published in the now-defunct News of The World, the pictures breach rules on privacy and data protection claims Mosley. In [...]
Google search terms can be used to predict market crashes July 28, 2014 Search data could be used to identify the warning signs of an imminent stock market crash, according to researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University. In a study called “Quantifying the semantics of search behaviour before stock market moves”, they show that a rise in certain terms put into Google correlates with a [...]