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A Confidential Report Outlines Googles Plans for Your Data

Editor — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:21:39 +0000

How far should Google go when it comes to profiting from the massive amounts of personal data they posses? That’s the question that is discussed in a confidential (not anymore) “vision statement” that was put together in 2008 by Aitan Weinberg, who is now a senior product manager. The Wall Street Journal got their hands on the document and they say that it is a blueprint for turning Google into the biggest clearninghouse for what most would consider to be private data. ‘ “Google is pushing into uncharted privacy territory for the company. Until recently, it refrained…

Google Founders Were Disagreeing Over Interest-based Ads, WSJ Says

Editor — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:21:12 +0000

Company-internal disagreements are natural and likely healthy but I think it’s interesting what they are about — from the Wall Street Journal : ‘ By late 2008, Google executives were preparing to launch ads targeted at users’ interests. But the specifics still remained controversial. Tensions erupted during a meeting with about a dozen executives at Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters about 18 months ago when Messrs. Page and Brin shouted at each other over how aggressively Google should move into targeting, according to a person who had knowledge of the meeting. “It was…

Baidu– Chinese Search Engine or International Player?

Editor — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:17:21 +0000

In a Wall Street Journal interview, Baidu CEO Robin Li stated that international expansion will be a key revenue driver for the Chinese search engine in the coming years. Baidu launched a Japanese version of its site in 2008 and according to Li, expects to see international markets providing a significant amount of their revenue over the next 5 to 10 years. The US, however, will not be a key target, due to the strength of the global players such as Google and Microsoft in that market. Baidu is a homegrown Chinese search engine, which saw huge success in that market long before Google withdrew…

Net neutrality crusaders slam Verizon, Google

Editor — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:58:17 +0000

Net neutrality supporters say they’re unhappy that the Verizon Communications and Google proposal for new Net neutrality rules does not go far enough. On Monday the companies announced a joint proposal that outlines a legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers. The companies have been working together on the Net neutrality issue for almost a year. In October, they issued a shared statement of principles on Net neutrality. And then, a few months later, they submitted a joint filing to the FCC. In late March, the CEOs discussed their interest in an open Internet through an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

Google Loses Effort To Prevent Discrimination Case From Going To Trial

Editor — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:19:50 +0000

Google lost a procedural ruling to prevent an age discrimination lawsuit from going to trial yesterday when the California Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that the facts of Reid vs. Google justified a trial on the merits. The outcome was reported in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. As part of the case, the [...]

Ouch: AOL misses low earnings expectations

Editor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:33:11 +0000

Wall Street didn’t have high expectations for AOL’s quarterly earnings–after all, one of the company’s executives exclaimed at a conference last week that “we have a big f-ing problem!”–but the Internet service provider turned new-media conglomerate still failed to meet the mark. AOL posted revenues of $584.1 million, a 26 percent decline from the previous quarter, when analysts were expecting about $602 million.

Wall Street Journal Uses Scare Tactics to Alarm Readers About Advertisers

Editor — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:53:33 +0000

I am a big fan of the Wall Street Journal. It’s a business essential and you can pretty easily avoid the politics if they do not suit your tastes. With their All Things Digital group they do a great job of giving you the lowdown and many scoops on the digital world. As for the paper? Their digital coverage is certainly improving but a recentseries on behavioral targeting shows what direction they are leaning toward in their message to the business people that read it. Be afraid, be very afraid, because the digital boogeyman is out to get you. I really wish they didn’t do that and…

Google Talking With Game Makers About New Social Gaming Site: Report

Editor — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:57:58 +0000

Nary a week goes by this summer that we don’t hear more rumors about Google’s interest in online games, social networking, and/or some combination of the two. Tonight, the Wall Street Journal is quoting unnamed sources that say Google is talking with “several makers of popular online games” to have those games included on a [...]

Scaling The Online Pay Wall

Editor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:30:42 +0000

As the Rupert Murdoch owned Times and Sunday Times lost 90 % of its online viewers during the first week it went behind the pay walls, all hell broke loose in the media world. After the successful monetization of the financial dailies, the London based Financial Times and the New York based Wall Street Journal, [...]

Googles Street View ‘Mistake Gets Attention of 37 States

Editor — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:29:58 +0000

Google has pushed the boundaries on just about everything they have done. As of late, their Street View escapades have created some serious ill will on most continents. While it seems that some of the trouble has cooled off a bit ( but not completely by any means) outside of the US it may just be heating up stateside. According to the Wall Street Journal ‘ The attorney general of Connecticut said 37 states have joined his investigation of Google Inc. and that he continues to seek information about whether privacy laws were broken when Google’s Street View vehicles collected personal…