Googleis tossing out its Reader service and seven other products under a house cleaning campaign that has closed 70 of the internet giant's features in the past two years. "These changes are never easy," Google senior vice president of ...
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Google has acquired a startup from the computer science department of the University of Toronto to get key researchers in the area of deep neural networks. The Internet company acquired DNNresearch, which was set up last year by Professor ...
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Google has struck a deal with US authorities to pay a $US7 million fine for collecting people's personal data without authorization as it combed neighborhoods for its Street View service. In a legal settlement with 38 US States, the ...
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Motorola Mobility is cutting 1,200 jobs, in addition to a reduction of 4,000 jobs it announced in August, to focus on high-end devices. "These cuts are a continuation of the reductions we announced last summer," said Motorola spokeswoman ...
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Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 is a video compression technology ...
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The format of news feeds on home pages is being revamped to get rid of clutter and present "bright, beautiful" stories whether they are insights from friends or trending news of the day, Facebook said. "I think there is a special place in ...
HEWLETT-PACKARD says it is selling its webOS mobile operating system to South Korean consumer electronics titan LG to use in internet-connected televisions. "The open and transparent webOS technology offers a compelling user experience ...
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Australia's High Court cleared Google on Wednesday of violating fair trade laws by allowing companies to publish advertisements containing their competitors' names, handing a defeat to the country's fair trade regulator. The High Court ...
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Mobile operator Orange and Chinese Internet giant Baidu have developed a co-branded mobile browser for Android-based smartphones in the Middle East and Africa. The browser is the result of an exclusive deal between the two companies that ...
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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 ...
Google will invest $200 million in a wind farm project in west Texas, part of the Internet giant's continuing interest in funding renewable energy projects, the company said Wednesday. The equity investment is in the Spinning Spur Wind ...
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IDG News Service - Google has quietly shut down a search function that helped users in China navigate past the country's censorship systems, after authorities had tried to block the feature. Launched at the end of May, the function worked ...
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US regulators have closed a lengthy antitrust probe into Google, saying there is not enough evidence to show the internet giant manipulated its search results to harm its competitors. The Federal Trade Commission said it lacked a legal ...
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After a nearly two-year antitrust investigation,Google escaped with more of a slap on the wrist than a slap in the face,say industry analysts. While getting the anti-trust equivalent of a good talking-to,the Internet giant is easily ...
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Google said Tuesday it is starting to connect homes in Kansas City, Kan., to its Google Fiber broadband service. The installation will have two phases, starting with pulling fiber-optic cables from the street to the side of the home, and ...
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