Inside Google

What does Google’s power play mean?

John M. Simpson

Google last week asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to buy and sell electric power like…

How Google peddles its stuff

John M. Simpson

Google is notorious for maintaining a clutter-free, minimalist home page. It famously resisted adding a "privacy" link because adding the word would have brought the word count to 29, one more than the magic 28 words founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin insisted should be the maxim on the page.

Google is still the 800-pound gorilla

John M. Simpson

Google acted again Tuesday to ensure that will be a dominant player in the increasingly important mobile market.  It clearly wants to avoid what happened to other tech…

What’s Google’s next plan for mobile?

John M. Simpson

Tuesday is a big day for those trying to figure out just what Google is planning for the increasingly important mobile phone market.

The Internet giant has…

Google’s privacy PR meaningless until CEO Schmidt gets it

John M. Simpson

Last Friday Google’s Christine Chen, posted an article about the Internet giant’s approach to privacy, complete with a set of 20 slides, but such efforts are nothing but empty public relations gestures until CEO Eric Schmidt demonstrates he gets it.

Comparing Democratic, GOP fundraisers

John M. Simpson

Both the Democratic and Republican Senate campaign committees are holding big fundraisers — the Democrats today at Google headquarters and the Republicans on Monday and Tuesday at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. Consumer Watchdog objected to the Democratic event.

Will City of L.A. jump into Google’s cloud?

Jamie Court

I spent all afternoon Monday waiting at the LA City Council Budget Committee to give the Council members my two minutes on why Google’s proposal to put the City’s computing into its cloud could be dangerous. In a nutshell: Security,…

DC Dispatch: The week in review

Carmen Balber

Things got busy fast this week in DC as Congress returned from the month-long summer break.

Finance committee chair Sen. Max Baucus released his long-awaited health reform proposal on Tuesday after months of closed-door meetings…

Following the money in L.A.’s proposed Google email deal

John M. Simpson

L.A. City council is wrestling with a proposal to shift the city’s 30,000 email users and other computer applications to a system provided by Google.  Anytime a deal like this is under consideration, it’s worth checking the money trail. I examined records kept by the Los Angeles Ethics Commission to see who paid what to whom.

Google seeks spinmeisters

John M. Simpson

Internet giant Google is seeking communications personnel to get its story out to the world and counter what it calls negative press.

According to an …