It has been a big year for some tech luminaries, with several of them getting a nod from editors picking Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Calling him the "architect of the New America," President Barack Obama Wednesday was named Time's ...
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Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company’s poor third-quarter financial results, which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. During a ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has been named the most powerful person in wireless for 2012. FierceWireless has published its annual list of the 25 most powerful people in the US wireless industry, and Cook has secured the top spot. “Tim Cook ...
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Google+ is hitting a major milestone this week as its fledgling social network reaches its first birthday. Google launched its own social network a year ago Thursday. While it's a distant competitor to the world's top social network, ...
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Google CEO Larry Page met with officials from the FTC this week in an attempt to convince regulators that the company hasn’t broken antitrust laws, reports say. Page met with agency officials in Washington on Tuesday to defend the ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died of cancer aged 69. Until his death, Moggridge was best known for his design of the Grid Compass, the first ...
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Google was yesterday accused of being"cleverer than the tax man"by MPs as it was questioned by the Public Accounts Select Committee over its controversial tax bill. Labour MP Margaret Hodge led the questioning of Matt ...
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CSO-It was almost a year ago that a curious mathematician with no real Internet security training was able to walk through a gaping security hole left by Google--a weak email cryptographic key. But most security experts say that while the ...
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IDG News Service-Google CEO Larry Page tried to put a positive spin on his company's poor third-quarter financial results,which were released prematurely Thursday and triggered a panicked stock sell-off before trading was abruptly halted. ...
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IDG News Service - European privacy authorities have asked Google to tweak the unified privacy policy it introduced on March 1, but have stopped short of asking it to undo all its changes. They set no firm deadline for Google to make the ...
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In the wake of Apple's crushing patent victory against Samsung in court late last week,Reuters reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook has been having secret phone calls with Google CEO Larry Page(pictured). According to sources close to the ...
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Computerworld-Google is adding the Google+Hangout feature to Gmail,the company's popular cloud-based email service. The Google+Hangout feature,which allows users to video chat with up to nine people,replaces Gmail's older peer-to-peer ...
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Google has reported a 10%increase in net income in the second quarter of 2012,reaching$2.79bn,compared to$2.51bn in the same period last year. Revenue from the UK was$1.18bn,representing 11%of Google sales.Total revenue was$12.21bn,up ...
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Google has reported a profit of $2.79 billion in the second quarter, up 11% over the same period of last year, in the company's first financial statement since it finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May. Motorola brought in ...
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