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Google to sell new e-books online

Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader Amazon.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Google book settlement facing antitrust scrutiny

Google's settlement with US authors and publishers over its book scanning project still needs the green light from a US judge but it may first have to pass muster with the US Justice Department.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history

(AP) -- Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.

Biology / Evolution

created May 26, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (24) | comments 111

Google completes Motorola deal, heralding new era

(AP) -- Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile ...

Technology / Business

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher develops personalized search engines

(Phys.org) -- With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Source: Yahoo CEO says he didn't mislead company

(AP) -- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is assuring his colleagues that he didn't supply the incorrect information that led the troubled Internet company to list a bogus college degree in his official biography, according to a ...

Technology / Business

created May 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Review: No real point to Foursquare, yet addictive

(AP) -- It took a return to the South to get me back on Foursquare. Months later, I'm still not sure why I need it, yet I can't seem to stay away.

Technology / Software

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Game-powered machine learning' opens door to Google for music

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Facebook focus guides Google CEO's 1st year on job

Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Expedia and TripAdvisor file EU complaint against Google

The travel websites Expedia and TripAdvisor have filed complaints as part of a probe into whether Google is abusing its position on the Internet, a European Commission spokesman said on Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Celebrities pile into tech startups

Robert DeNiro co-owns restaurants and Jennifer Lopez sells perfume and clothes, but the most coveted job for multihyphenate celebrities these days is something a bit less glitzy and a lot more geeky - tech entrepreneur.

Technology / Business

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Apps could fence in free-range Internet: US study

The free-ranging Internet is under assault by mobile applications that connect people exclusively to content kept in "walled gardens" online, according to a US study released Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3


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