Google has resolved a compensation fight with French news publishers that sees the US internet search giant setting up a 60 million euros ($A78.67 million) fund to help France's media adapt to the digital age. "France is proud to have ...
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A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has labelled China a menace to the internet, complicit in the use of cyber-crime as part of efforts to undermine its corporate and political opponents. The claims are made in his upcoming book, The New Digital ...
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Google has created a euro 60 million (US$81 million) fund designed to settle disputes with French publishers over lost revenues, providing an alternative to a proposed “link tax” that would have charged the company for posting ...
IDG News Service - Google has created a €60 million (US$81 million) fund designed to settle disputes with French publishers over lost revenues, providing an alternative to a proposed "link tax" that would have charged the company for ...
Tags: Google, Copyright Dispute, French Publishers
Despite saying in December that talks with Google could not go on forever, European Union Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia seems resigned to keep waiting. Almunia laughed as he said at a Wednesday press briefing that "talks were ...
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Google's charitable arm, its Google Giving fund, is providing funding for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The company's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been visiting a Cambridge school where he and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton have ...
Google has published detailed maps of North Korea, based on information entered by users via its online Map Maker tool. The maps now include details about the ultra-secretive nation including highways and smaller roads, country borders, ...
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Late Apple chief Steve Jobs threatened to slap Palm with patent lawsuits to prevent the tech rival from hiring away its talent, according to court documents available on Wednesday. Unsealed copies of an email exchanged between Jobs and ...
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New documents have been filed in court showing how a number of big, Silicon Valley-based companies operated an informal "no poaching" agreement to prevent them from taking each other's staff. The agreement, which contravened ...
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Internal emails at Apple, Google, Intel and a number of other high-profile technology companies suggest organisations have been discussing potential anti-poaching agreements, with an apparent intention of dampening competition between ...
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Google's chief executive and co-founder, Larry Page, has slated Facebook for "doing a really bad job with its products", while also taking a swipe at Apple, as the war between the companies intensifies. The interview with Page was ...
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Amid further signs that the EU's two-year investigation into Google is coming to a head, EC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the internet giant will be forced to change the way it presents its search results if it wants to ...
IDG News Service - The U.S. Department of State has described the timing of a proposed visit by Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and others to North Korea as not "particularly helpful" in view of the Asian country's recent launch of ...
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The US has criticised a planned visit to North Korea by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, calling it ill-timed in the wake of Pyongyang's rocket launch last month. Mr Schmidt - whose company has the unofficial motto of "Don't Be Evil" - plans ...
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