Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway.
Google Mobile uses undocumented techniques that are supposed to be off-limits to iPhone developers in order to make its verbal search feature work with an iPhone sensor.
Google shares are up today, as recent data show that their lead in search has become even more dominant.
Google Inc.’s stock snapped out of its recent funk Tuesday after new data showed the Internet search leader is becoming even more dominant in the most lucrative part of the online advertising market.
Internet search giant Google Inc said it is “significantly” reducing the number of contract workers it uses, but has no plans at this time to lay off employees, the Wall Street Journal said.
Euro shopping service = ?375m loss Yahoo! has sold Kelkoo, the European comparison-shopping service, to a hereto unknown English private equity firm called Jamplant.?
Yahoo has sold the comparison shopping engine Kelkoo for which it paid $598 million in 2004.
The Web Guild reports Google has begun laying off staff and up to 10,000 ?Googlers? can be impacted by this new wave of layoffs. The Web Guild said in August, recruiters said about 500 ex-Googlers were on the job market and that number continues to increase.
Google has launched a search feature that lets signed-in users re-rank, delete and add comments on search results, according to a Google blog posting Thursday.
The question of Google?s evil was in the air around The Times on Thursday. Just after I pushed the save button on the post that posed the question whether Google violates its ?Don?t be evil? motto , I sat in with the Times editorial board (that is, those who write the unsigned comments on the editorial page) for a meeting with Eric Schmidt, Google?s chief executive and also a member of …
