The Strange Case of the Google Stock Plunge (New York Times)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008For most of Tuesday, Google ?s stock was mostly flat. Then, around 3:57 p.m., it mysteriously plummeted, closing down 10.4 percent at $341.43.
For most of Tuesday, Google ?s stock was mostly flat. Then, around 3:57 p.m., it mysteriously plummeted, closing down 10.4 percent at $341.43.
Canadian antitrust regulators have now gone the same path as the US Justice Department and reached out and hired an outside litigator, David Kent, a Toronto antitrust expert, to look into the Google-Yahoo deal. The news comes from the Wall Street Journal, which got it from ?lawyers close to the matter.? The paper couldn?t get Canadian officials to comment. read more
As the media turned its attention last weekend to battles on Capitol Hill over the fate of the proposed Wall Street bailout bill, Internet companies including Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. quietly walked away with a legislative victory that could facilitate their use of copyrighted material.
NEW YORK–Top programmers from across the Americas competed Monday for spots in the finals of Google’s global Code Jam 2008 competition.
On a day of across-the-board losses for technology stocks, Internet search giant Google witnesses its once high-flying share price fall under the $400 mark for the first time in two years.
Last week on this blog, I wrote about some cool developments in Google?s search feature. One of them: if you search for something big, like ?ny times,? you get a tiny table of contents (Sports, Politics, etc.) along with another search box?right there on the Google results page.
Google has already launched a fusillade of blog posts and other commentary to defend its search-ad deal with Yahoo. Now Yahoo is following suit.
With the Justice Department considering whether to look more deeply into the Google/Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search ad pact for potential antitrust violations, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has been aggressively mounting a public relations campaign defending the tie-up. On Friday, Yahoo President Sue Decker had her say in a rare post on Yahoo’s official blog. She had several points to convey about the deal: …
This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile’s G1) and offer them on the Android Market. read more
This guide explains how you can install the Google Android SDK 1.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With this stable release of the Android SDK, you can now develop applications for Android smartphones (like T-Mobile’s G1) and offer them on the Android Market. read more