Google Inc.

Google says 'no concrete plan' for server farm in Austria - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 8 days 18 hours 11 minutes ago
Copyright © 2008 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.

Google to Cut Contract Workers
Wall Street Journal, The | 7 days 14 hours 35 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc. said Monday that it is "significantly" reducing the number of contract workers it uses, but the Internet search and advertising company said it has no plans at this time to lay off employees. "We have been thinking for some time, before the acute phase of the economic crisis, about significantly reducing the number contract workers," said spokeswoman Jane Penner.

Microsoft Nears Deal on Search With Verizon
Wall Street Journal, The | 20 days 16 hours 3 minutes ago
Microsoft Corp. is moving closer to an agreement with Verizon Wireless to become the default search provider on the wireless carrier's cellphones, a deal rival Google Inc. has been striving for, people familiar with the discussions said.Under the terms now being considered, Microsoft would share revenue with Verizon from ads shown in response to cellphone Web searches, with guaranteed payments to the carrier of approximately $550 million to $650 million over five years, or roughly twice what ...

A New Odd Couple: Google, P&G Swap Workers to Spur Innovation
Wall Street Journal, The | 13 days 18 hours 58 minutes ago
At Procter & Gamble Co., the corporate culture is so rigid, employees jokingly call themselves "Proctoids." In contrast, Google Inc. staffers are urged to wander the halls on company-provided scooters and brainstorm on public whiteboards.Now, this odd couple thinks they have something to gain from one another -- so they've started swapping employees. So far, about two-dozen staffers from the two companies have spent weeks participating in each other's staff training programs and sitting i...

YouTube Sells Video Ads For Searches
Wall Street Journal, The | 19 days 15 hours 39 minutes ago
Google Inc.'s YouTube on Wednesday introduced a service that sells video ads tied to search results on YouTube, its latest attempt to wring more revenue from the popular video site.The company has been testing the program, called YouTube Sponsored Videos, with some advertisers for weeks. Under the offering YouTube users will start seeing online commercials next to their search results when they seek items such as products or events like "the financial crisis." Advertisers can create and bid f...

Google Unveils Service to Track Flu Cases
Wall Street Journal, The | 20 days 22 hours 57 minutes ago
You can Google to get a hotel, find a flight and buy a book. Now you may be able to use Google to avoid the flu.One month into flu season, Google Inc. on Tuesday opened a free Web service that the Internet company says can show if the number of influenza cases is increasing in areas around the U.S., earlier than many existing methods.

Google Exec Says Sees Long Battle To Win Over Asian Markets
Wall Street Journal, The | 19 days 9 hours 6 minutes ago
BEIJING (Dow Jones)--Google Inc. (GOOG) remains in second place in key Asian markets, most notably China, and sees a long struggle to gain market share, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google president of Asia Pacific and Latin America operations, said in a meeting with analystsThursday. "My hope is to gain market share, but in China it's going to take a while. We've prepared ourselves for a longer battle," she said.

Google Tool Lets Users Edit Search
Wall Street Journal, The | 11 days 20 hours 55 minutes ago
Google Inc. Thursday began allowing users to re-rank and edit their search results through a new set of personalization features the company hopes will make its dominant search engine more useful.The SearchWiki tools, as the company calls them, allow anyone logged into a Google account to move up results they find interesting, delete ones that aren't useful and add personal notes through markers that appear next to each entry on Google's standard search results page.

Google Adds Audio, Video to Gmail
Wall Street Journal, The | 20 days 22 hours 57 minutes ago
Google Inc. added audio and video chatting tools to its Gmail email service Tuesday, its latest attempt to upgrade the service to draw more interest from consumer and business users.The new features compete with eBay Inc.'s Skype and other Web conferencing tools that have grown more popular as more laptops come with built in Web-cameras and connection speeds continue to improve.

Start-Up Takes on 'Patent Trolls'
Wall Street Journal, The | 8 days 15 hours 17 minutes ago
A San Francisco start-up is disclosing details of a new service to address patent risks facing technology companies, and has lined up Cisco Systems Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. as initial members.The new venture, called RPX Corp., is the latest response to the rise of firms that buy up patents to seek royalties from other companies. Such licensing firms are often called nonpracticing entities -- or, more derisively, patent trolls -- because they don't make or sell products t...

Late rally gives strong boost to tech sector - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 14 hours 10 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks jumped in the final hour of trading Friday, following a broad market upswing that was sparked by reports that New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner has been tapped serve as Treasury secretary by President-elect Barack Obama.

Broad market surge as Qualcomm, Apple, IBM pace sector - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 7 days 15 hours 13 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks got a strong boost Monday on a broad market upswing as investors cheered the announcement of a massive plan to prevent a collapse of Citigroup.