Google wants to conquer the social networking world without creating an explicit social network. The online search giant is weaving the various components of social networks through its existing services.
Larry Brilliant, the founding executive director of Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the Internet search giant, is leaving the company to head a venture backed by the Skoll Foundation.
Internet search giant Google on Thursday expanded its push into the telephone market, offering a service that provides a single number for home, work and cell phones and turns voicemail into email.
Google Inc will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States, as the search giant strives to expand in a smartphone arena dominated by Apple Inc.
Google Inc will allow developers to sell applications for its Android cell phone operating system beginning next week in the United States, as the search giant strives to expand in a smartphone arena dominated by Apple Inc.
Google isn’t immune to the economic downturn and is scaling back. The search giant will reassign 70 of its engineering positions and scale back its recruiting efforts by cutting 100 positions, it announced Wednesday.
With Yahoo ?s appointment of Carol Bartz as its new chief, talk, perhaps inevitably, resurfaced that the search giant might reopen talks with Microsoft about some kind of deal.
Yahoo! and Samsung on Monday said they will put the California firm’s software to work linking the South Korean electronics giant’s televisions to the Internet.
Internet search giant Google slightly increased its share of the US search engine market in November, online researcher comScore Inc. reported.
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.
