Google Offers Free Office Bundle To Rival Microsoft
Google has recently released an office based software bundle that is focused on replacing the ever-frustrating Microsoft Office programs. For those of you that try very hard to break free from Microsoft, Google’s offering will seem like a dream.
Bundled and free of charge, Google Docs & Spreadsheets will take the place of Microsoft’s software [...]
Google Subpoenas Competition Regarding Book Search
Google has been involved in litigation with the Authors Guild who disagree that scanning books and presenting small portions of them, called “snippets”, is legal according to copyright and fair use practices. Google holds their ground that there is nothing wrong with what they do and making public those searches is completely acceptable.
The Authors [...]
“GooTube’s” Thank You Video
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, cofounders of YouTube, recently put up a thank you video on their video clip powerhouse site.
This comes in light on the heels of their recent acquisition by Google for a reported 1.65 billion dollars.
Needless to say they are both as giddy as a couple of schoolgirls over their newfound wealth. [...]
Google Allows Code Search
Google is trying to woo the software developers that utlize their site now. After much talk about how Google had tried very hard to index books and copyrighted materials, now they are allowing you to search code so that it might help you write your own software.
Google Code Search is a novel new idea [...]
Is Yahoo! now under the gun after losing YouTube?
It’s Google against Mark Cuban after all, in a rather unique twist on celebrity deathmatch. Well, it’s not that far gone yet, but yesterday afternoon’s announcement that Google would be purchasing #1 video-sharing site YouTube.com in an all-stock transaction was not entirely unexpected. Google will now be the largest provider of online video with its [...]
Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion, Grabs Lead in Web Videos
Google Inc, the most-used Internet search engine, agreed to buy YouTube Inc. The purchase price is $1.65 billion, adding the largest video-sharing site on the Web and an audience that watches more than 100 million clips a day.
Founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and their 65 employees will join the company, Google said today in [...]
Google signs deal with Sony BMG, Warner Music
Internet search leader Google Inc on Monday said it signed distribution deals with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group Corp. to offer music videos.
Deals with two of the top global music labels follow on the heels of similar deals Universal Music Group signed with top online video service YouTube on Monday.
YouTube is also reported to [...]
Google to Buy YouTube.com?
Friday brought reports that Google and YouTube were in talks about Google purchasing YouTube for around $1.6 billion. Reportedly, both companies said they do not discuss rumors and speculation and refused to comment, but many said it was an obvious meeting.
YouTube is based in California and it is widely used to upload videos for [...]
Google launches literacy project
Google Inc unveiled on Wednesday a Web site dedicated to literacy, pulling together its books, video, mapping and blogging services to help teachers and educational organizations share reading resources.
The site was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest gathering of publishing executives, in conjunction with the
United Nations and a literacy campaign organized by [...]
Google and Apple in iTV content talks
Google is reportedly in talks with Apple about the possibility of supplying video clips for Apple’s forthcoming iTV device.
The iTV device, due to be released early next year at a price of around $299, allows users to watch video files stored on their PC on their televisions. The kit consists of a video streaming player [...]
