A video produced by Hungry Beast, a weekly news show on Australian television puts Internet giant …
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Australian news video calls Google “a company on steroids”
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“Google HomeView” arrives in Germany
Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google’s Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy.
Now there’s a delightful …
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An answer to Google’s annoying Super Bowl ad
Remember the ever-so-cute ad that Google ran during the Super Bowl? Now there’s a parody that shows some not-so-cute things you can do using Google’s…
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Google Gmail Privacy
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How Google’s ‘Chrome’ Doesn’t Protect Your Privacy
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Responds to Consumer Watchdog
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Questions mount about Google’s AdMob deal
More concerns about Google’s $750 million proposed deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob were raised Tuesday.
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) wrote Jonathan Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, warning that the proposed deal “raises important competition issues which should be reviewed carefully…”
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Consumer Watchdog Files White House FOIA Request For Ex-Googler’s Email
White House Internet Policy Chief Andrew McLaughlin’s “Buzz” Profile Showed Continued Ties To Internet Giant WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with the White House Office of Science…
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Google’s Buzz outs White House aide, former Googler
You might call it poetic justice. Remember the more than justifiable flap that ensued when Google launched
its Buzz social networking service as part of Gmail? People quickly
saw that the people they most frequently emailed were displayed publicly
on their profile.
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Google is committed to openness — for everybody else
Google
continues to demonstrate that when comes to a commitment to openness and transparency the Internet
giant is really talking about holding others to that standard,
certainly not itself.