The content sharing site Megaupload – which is in the news since from the day it was takedown, moved to next step – the data on the site could be erased as soon as Thursday, February 2. The site millions of users stored their data over on the content share buildup. The company hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group...
Following the search engine giant, Google decision to change its 60 different product policies into one single “big” policy, results into a series of storms of questions including the group of House Energy and Commerce members raised their voice on the issue. Google through its blog post, tried to wind-up those questions and trying to clean up some of the misconceptions that are taking place in and around about privacy policies. Here are the answers of Google: You still have choice and control. You don’t need to log in to use many...
Search engine giant, Google has recently filed its 10-K with the SEC, revealing the “big numbers” of its past outgoings – the company revealed the number of acquisitions it has made with the amount it spent on the purchases in the year. As of the quarter ended December 31, 2011 the company reported revenues of $10.58 billion – an increase of 25% compared to fourth quarter 2010. Google completed around 79 acquisitions, spending $1.9 billion – including both cash and stocks in 2011. With some of the biggies too in the list included...
“As a search engine giant, Google has a responsibility to protect the privacy of its users,” the eight lawmakers wrote Google CEO Larry Page. “Therefore, we are writing to learn why Google feels that these changes are necessary, and what steps are being taken to ensure protection of consumers’ privacy rights.” A group of House Energy and Commerce members asked Google in a letter (PDF) on Thursday to explain why it plans to start tracking users and collecting information about them across all the company’s...
Changing a design is termed to be as “good”, but what if changing the design again and again to be called as – YouTube, the video sharing website redesign its homepage with update to certain aspects of its site. Starting from this week, the site kicked off changes in the site including updates to Browse Pages, Video Editor and Video Manager. The new Browse page...
The closure of Megaupload takes a step further – this time not by the feds or US government but by the Pirates of Catalonia who are planning to sue the FBI over the content sharing site takedown. The group initiative is an initial step for legitimate internet users to help defend themselves from the legal abuses promoted by those wishing to aggressively lock away...
Have you ever wondered that the data (the content) you put in on the world’s largest search engine giant is of worth how much? A new research finds people puts up over $5,000 worth of personal information a year to Google in lieu of its “free services” – the search engine giant offers. Michael Fertik, CEO and founder of Reputation.com, says personal information can be worth between $50 and $5,000 per person per year to advertisers and market researchers, depending on how much they spend and how useful the information is to third...
Google, through its blog post, announced a new service known as Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring relevant emergency alerts when and where you’re searching for them. The Google Crisis Response team works on providing critical emergency information during crises with the goal to surface emergency information through the online tools you use daily,...
On the account of Google’s Q4 2011 earnings announcement last week – they reported a $37.9 billion in revenues. Wordstream summarized the Google’s 2011 revenues in an Infographic and determine the top ten industries that spend the most money on Google advertising last year. Google: History Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page...
Google – we know as the search engine giant with its continuing aim to deliver content more effectively with quicker speed, the company has proposed a number of changes to Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Google’s attempting to build a Web-accelerating technology it calls SPDY into the Internet. Google engineer Yuchung Cheng listed several proposals for speeding...
