Google has ended a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, saying it wants to provide a stronger and more uniform experience to users. The Internet giant said Thursday in a blog post that now even ...
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Google has shut down its online shopping service in China, further slimming down its product portfolio for the country after it pulled the plug on its free music service back in September. The Internet giant said it closed the site on ...
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IDG News Service - Facebook is setting up an engineering team in London that is expected to focus on its platform and mobile development, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. The team will be kept fairly small at first and will consist ...
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Google and the European Commission appear close to a settlement that would end the ommission's investigation of the Internet giant for potential violations of European antitrust regulations, according to a Commission spokesman. "We have ...
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Motorola Mobility is cutting 4,000 employees as the company shifts its emphasis from feature phones to focus on high-end devices, the company said late Sunday. About two-thirds of the staff reduction is set to occur outside the U.S., the ...
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Google's plan to cut 20% of the workforce at its Motorola Mobility unit has reignited internal fears that the Internet giant primarily had its eye on 17,000 Motorola patents when it acquired the mobile device maker in May. Google earlier ...
Google has ended a free version of its Google Apps online application suite for small businesses, saying it wants to provide a stronger and more uniform experience to users. The Internet giant said Thursday in a blog post that now even ...
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Heads of IT are claiming that Google is “still not a corporate contender” with its apps and services, according to The Corporate IT Forum. Research from the Forum, which surveyed heads of IT at some of the UK’s largest ...
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YAHOO! has shaken up its board of directors, giving a seat to PayPal co-founder and former Google executive Max Levchin and bidding farewell to two of its members. Levchin's arrival on the Yahoo! board came with the departure of Intuit ...
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GOOGLE has fine-tuned its search engine to to avoid delivering porn in results for "ambiguous" queries. An adjustment to Google search rolled out in the country over several days simplified image search settings from three modes to two, ...
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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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IT executives keen to learn how search engine giant Google is running its datacentres or curious to know how users' data – including YouTube videos and Google+ accounts – are stored and secured, now have an opportunity to ...
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Google paid a tax rate of 11.9 per cent in the US last year, according to a report in April from research and public policy organisation the Greenlining Institute, to the annoyance of many American tax campaigners who wonder why the company ...
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Amazon will combine the development teams of two U.K.media companies it acquired last year to create a new Digital Media Development Center in London,the company said on Monday. The Internet giant said it will merge the design and ...
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IDG News Service-Baidu,China's largest search engine,reported second-quarter profits that were up 70 percent from a year earlier as it continued to add new customers for its online marketing services. Baidu's profits for the quarter ended ...
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