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 [...]
Global Innovation Index: Britain’s won a silver medal – even without a Google July 27, 2014 Apart from the risk of shocks from geopolitical crises, the outlook for the economy looks a whole lot brighter than it has for a long time. Friday’s UK GDP figures are the latest in a steady stream of good news, but this doesn’t need to be the only thing to brighten your Monday morning: the [...]
Google share price surges after positive second quarter earnings report July 18, 2014 Safe to say that shareholders are satisfied with Google's latest batch of results. Shares in the search titan climbed today, up four per cent as investors piled into the stock following the firm's second quarter earnings report. The company led the S&P Index higher as US markets regain losses following Thursday's ruthless selloff prompted by [...]
Google business chief Nikesh Arora departs as search giant beats forecasts July 17, 2014 Google’s business chief will be leaving the company, in the latest high-ranking departure at the search giant, as the firm beat second quarter revenue expectations. Nikesh Arora, who joined Google nearly 10 years ago, will join Japanese tech and telecoms group SoftBank as vice chairman. “Google had a great quarter with revenue up 22 per [...]