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Insiders criticize Google's hiring practices
As Google posts unexpectedly high profits and begins adding new positions after a hiring freeze, a researcher with the company has found that the tough hiring standards Google... |
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on Apr 18, 2011 at 6:16 pm by Johnny Come Lately, a resident of the Shoreline West neighborhood |
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Google profits up, stock price down
Google's revenue rose 37 percent to $1.96 billion this quarter compared to a year ago, but that wasn't good enough for Wall Street, where it's stock price fell 4.8 percent yes... |
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on Apr 20, 2010 at 4:27 pm by Oops, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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Google stops censoring itself in China
Yesterday, Google made good on its threat to stop censoring its search results in China.
The company announced in a |
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on Mar 23, 2010 at 2:22 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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China's government suspected in Google's cyber attack
China's government may have been responsible for the cyber attack on Google that has the company threatening to pull out of China, reports say.
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on Jan 14, 2010 at 2:25 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Credit card numbers exposed on Google
It is being reported that online start up Blippy accidentally exposed dozens of credit card numbers on it's Web site which remained in Google search results for over two month... |
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on Apr 23, 2010 at 5:13 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google's new phone is a game changer
Google's new "Nexus One" phone, released Monday, has many advantages over the iPhone, reviewers say.
The phone has received a flurry of reviews since Monday, including a r... |
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on Jan 7, 2010 at 12:46 pm by eric, a resident of another community |
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Google in talks to buy Yelp, reports say
Google is reportedly in advanced talks to buy Yelp, the popular Web site for reviewing restaurants and other retail businesses.
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on Dec 18, 2009 at 2:16 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft
Believing that every desktop computer application in use today will be based online someday, Google is developing a new computer operating system that is based on a web browse... |
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on Nov 22, 2009 at 12:39 am by dfb, a resident of the Shoreline West neighborhood |
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Google shutters Windows on internal computers
Citing security concerns, several anonymous Google employees have reported that the Mountain View search giant has banned the use of Windows on all company computers. Accordin... |
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on Jun 2, 2010 at 4:33 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google's Android beats iPhone in first quarter sales
Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a crowd of shareholders yesterday in Mountain View that 65,000 phones are shipped everyday with Google's cell phone operating system, Android.
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on May 21, 2010 at 12:09 pm by USA, a resident of the Old Mountain View neighborhood |
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Google threatens to pull out of China
Google threatened Tuesday to completely shut down its Chinese operations, after detecting evidence of a cyber-attacks originating in the country.
According to a post [http:... |
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on Jan 13, 2010 at 1:27 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google denies evildoing, kills Wave app
Google is denying reports that it is making a deal with Verizon that could lead to Google and other companies dominating the internet, spelling the end of "net neutrality."
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on Aug 5, 2010 at 1:26 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Top digital music lawyer joins Google
Google has tapped a noted digital music attorney to aid its quest to launch a cloud-based streaming music service.
Elizabeth Moody has previously worked for Davis, Shapiro,... |
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on Jul 22, 2010 at 12:59 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Will Google experiment with ultra-fast broadband in Mountain View?
Google announced Wednesday another venture without a clear profit motive: an experiment that involves giving ultra-fast one-gigabit-per-second broadband networks to selected a... |
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on Feb 11, 2010 at 1:19 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Study: we wasted 4.8 million hours playing Pac-Man on Google
Millions of people played Pac-Man on the video game's 30th anniversary last Friday when Google transformed its homepage logo into a Pac-Man game.
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on May 28, 2010 at 1:50 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google tests self-driving car
Of late, Mountain View residents may have mistakenly identified a spinning-camera-crowned Prius or Audi TT as a Google Street View car.
Anyone who waved at one of these veh... |
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on Oct 13, 2010 at 4:16 pm by googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Viacom takes a blow in YouTube copyright case
In Viacom's suit against the Google-owned YouTube video sharing Web site, a U.S. district judge has ruled that YouTube was not acting illegally by displaying copyrighted conte... |
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on Jun 24, 2010 at 2:11 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google "mortified" by privacy violations
Google apologized Friday for inadvertently collecting personal emails and passwords from private wireless networks while collecting data for the street view feature in Google ... |
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on Oct 25, 2010 at 10:49 am by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Local tech giants hold "Random Hacks of Kindness" event
In a Mountain View warehouse last weekend, disaster relief experts joined with software engineers from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and NASA Ames to come up with ways to better u... |
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on Nov 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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All 23,000 Googlers to get 10 percent raise
An email leaked to the press has revealed that Google is giving its employees all across the globe a 10 percent raise, as companies like Facebook and Twitter have begun poachi... |
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on Nov 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm by GoogleWatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google "Wave" re-invents online communication
Google unveiled one of its most ambitious products ever at its I/O conference this week in San Francisco. Google Wave appears to re-invent email in a unique assemblage of com... |
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on May 29, 2009 at 11:55 am by googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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'Instant' delivers results as queries are typed
The blogosphere erupted yesterday in a jubilee of speculation as to just what that |
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on Sep 8, 2010 at 12:40 pm by googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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One million Gmail phone calls in 24 hours
Google's introduction of free phone calls within Gmail has proved popular, with Google announcing on Twitter that 1 million calls had been made in its first 24 hours.
The ... |
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on Aug 27, 2010 at 4:20 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Google gets roasted on the Daily Show
Prominently featured in the Daily Show's segment on net-neutrality last night was Google headquarters in Mountain View and some notable local characters called the Raging Gran... |
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on Aug 18, 2010 at 12:25 pm by Googlewatch, News on Mountain View's largest employer |
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Bike to Work Day, Google style
In celebration of Bike to Work Day, over 500 Google employees pedaled to the Googleplex Thursday from around the Bay Area.
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on May 14, 2009 at 7:39 pm by Hector Zamarron, a resident of another community |
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