Les chiffres de l'ascension de G. Infographic F world domination. G acquires DeepMind UK startup. How Much Google And Other Tech Companies Spent On D.C. Lobbyists. EU antitrust claims plague Google. FTC investigates antitrust Google. What Google stores about you. What Google stores about you. Google Free Mapping anticompetitive in FR. G abus de positiondominante. Google announces a new Cloud platform.
Google recently announced new and improved Cloud platform offerings.
For businesses regulated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) or Gramm Leach Bliley Acts (“GLBA”), moving data to the Cloud is not something to be taken lightly. HIPAA and GLBA place a heavy emphasis on the protection of sensitive customer or patient information. In reviewing Google’s white paper detailing the security of the offering, it was interesting to note the following language: In addition to a full-time information security team, Google also maintains several functions focused on complying with statutory and regulatory compliance worldwide.
Google has a Global Compliance function that is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance as well as a Global Internal Audit function responsible for reviewing and auditing adherence to said compliance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Payment Card Industry standards (PCI). The Nest-Google privacy statement. The defensive FAQ by Nest to alleviate widespread fears about the Google acquisition has been quoted extensively.
The whole thing (it’s short) is worth examining critically. Before we dig in, I want to acknowledge what I consider the first great Nest partnership. The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Photo “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in the 21st century.
This idiom reflects the ever closer union between the State Department and Silicon Valley, as personified by Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of , and Mr. Cohen, a former adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton who is now director of Google Ideas. The authors met in occupied Baghdad in 2009, when the book was conceived. The book proselytizes the role of technology in reshaping the world’s people and nations into likenesses of the world’s dominant superpower, whether they want to be reshaped or not. A Closer Look at Google Public DNS. Google Scribe Predicts What You're Going to Type. Google has a Google Labs project available called Google Scribe.
Google Scribe provides text autocompletion as you type. It provides related word or phrase suggestions, using information you’ve already typed into a document. "In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe’s suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use," says Google. Google Scribe will show suggestions as you type by default, but that can be changed to "on demand" or my selecting an "on tab" option in the toolbar. Functionality can be toggled on and off with a keyboard shortcut. Users can choose if they want suggestions to be sorted by alphabetical order, "Google Scribe Score", which is based on popularity, relevance, etc., relevance, or expected typing savings. Google looking for more acquisitions like YouTube. Google is likely to buy more companies about the size of YouTube and DoubleClick, its two largest acquisitions, to help offer more online services, said the company's head of mergers and acquisitions.
"The world changes really quickly, and companies that were small two years ago are huge today," David Lawee, vice president of corporate development at Google, said last week in an interview. "It wouldn't surprise me to see more large opportunities for us. " Google has stepped up its dealmaking in 2010, spending $1.6 billion on more than 20 companies in the first nine months of the year, according to regulatory filings. Its acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob Inc. and a pending bid to acquire travel data aggregator ITA Software Inc., both for about $700 million, would be the company's third- and fourth-largest deals since it went public in 2004. "These people have a very strong passion around what they are doing and a vision for getting it done," said Lawee, 44. Regulators Are Watching Google Over Antitrust Concerns - NYTimes.
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Reback shepherded Adam and Shivaun Raff, the husband-and-wife entrepreneurs behind the London comparison shopping site Foundem, around Washington. The three held meetings with Congressional staff members and antitrust enforcers at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Their goal was to air the Foundem couple’s complaint that in 2006, Google’s supposedly objective algorithms suddenly dropped Foundem into the netherworld of Google search results. They say Google also raised the rates Foundem had to pay to advertise alongside search results. These moves, the couple say, pushed their comparison shopping site out of view, and Google later put the spotlight on its own shopping listings.
Google is the “arbiter of every single thing on the Web, and it favors its properties over everyone else’s,” said Mr. But the search giant’s decisions on such matters may soon be judged by higher authorities. “They are not just on the radar screen.