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| Forum: Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | ||||
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| 1: |  Google Wins Landmark AdWords Appeal In Australia Over Competitor NamesThe ACCC in 2007 accused Google of engaging in "misleading and deceptive" behavior when it displayed ads for a company called CarSales in search results related to Honda Australia. | Feb 6, 2013 | ||
| 2: | Google In Talks With Privacy Groups To Limit Government Access To Users' Data Without Warrants The company has been talking to advocacy groups and companies about joining a lobbying effort to change the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, said Chris Gaither, a Google spokesman. | Jan 28, 2013 | ||
| 3: | Google Reports 4Q Revenues of $14.42 Billion, Up 36pct Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $14.42 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2012. | Jan 22, 2013 | ||
| 4: | Wired: Google's Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter Larry Page: I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we run companies. If you read the media coverage of our company, or of the technology industry in general, it's always about the competition. The stories are written as if they are covering a sporting event. But it's hard to find actual examples of really amazing things that happened solely due to competition. | Jan 17, 2013 | ||
| 5: | Google Ends Patent Claim With Microsoft Over Video Compression Technology Google has now asked the US International Trade Commission, which handles patent disputes, to withdraw both claims. | Jan 9, 2013 | ||
| 6: | Google and FTC Agree Settlement Over Antitrust The FTC announced the results of its lengthy investigation into Google's practices today and will require Google to make minor changes to resolve complaints by competitors and advertisers. | Jan 3, 2013 | ||
| 7: | WSJ: There's No Avoiding Google+ "Google+ is Google," says Vice President Bradley Horowitz. "The entry points to Google+ are many, and the integrations are more every day." | Jan 3, 2013 | ||
| 8: | E.U. Gives Google January Deadline Over Antitrust EU regulators said they would end their investigation into the allegations if Google came "forward with a detailed commitment text in January 2013". | Dec 20, 2012 | ||
| 9: | F.T.C. To Delay Decision On Google Antitrust Investigation Google had been preparing a letter with voluntary concessions to end the agency's investigation of its practices in the Internet search market without a formal settlement or lawsuit, the people have said. | Dec 19, 2012 | ||
| 10: | Google Moves To Start Charging Small Business For Google Apps Google wants to provide small businesses that use the free version of the software with dedicated customer support, something only paying customers currently get. "We're not serving them well," he said of the free users. | Dec 7, 2012 | ||
| 11: | Google In Australia Found Guilty of Libel for SERP Listing "In that sense, Google Inc. is like the newsagent that sells a newspaper containing a defamatory article. While there might be no specific intention to publish defamatory material, there is a relevant intention by the newsagent to publish the newspaper for the purposes of the law of defamation." | Nov 28, 2012 | ||
| 12: | U.S. Judge Approves $22.5 Million Fine for Google Over Privacy Settings It's looking like Google may have to soon cough up the $22.5 million fine it agreed to pay in order to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that it illegally bypassed user privacy settings in Apple's Safari Web browser. | Nov 19, 2012 | ||
| 13: | Google Loses Defamation Lawsuit A Melbourne man has won a defamation case against search giant Google over images of him alongside well-known Underworld figures that appeared in its search results. | Oct 31, 2012 | ||
| 14: | Google Share Price Drop, Profit Down By 20 pct Shares of Google plunged after the company's third-quarter results missed expectations of strong growth, and inadvertently were released well before the market's close. | Oct 19, 2012 | ||
| 15: | E.U. Tells Google to Fix Privacy Policy: May Have Global Impact Report: Google's controversial privacy policy is in breach of an E.U. law which requires companies to give an "opt-out" option. | Oct 15, 2012 | ||
| 16: | Report: F.T.C. Moves Closer to Google Antitrust Case Four of the FTC commissioners have become convinced after more than a year of investigation that Google illegally used its dominance of the search market to hurt its rivals, while one commissioner is skeptical, the sources said. | Oct 13, 2012 | ||
| 17: | Google Offering Business Credit Card For AdWords Purchases "...we'll invite businesses to use AdWords Business Credit in the UK and extend more invitations in the US later this month. | Oct 9, 2012 | ||
| 18: | Google Settles U.S. Authors Book Scanning Lawsuit The settlement lets US publishers decide which works should, or should not, be in Google's library. | Oct 4, 2012 | ||
| 19: | Google Spring Cleaning Shuts Down AdSense for Feeds, Classic Plus Search Starting October 2, we'll begin to retire this feature, and on December 3 we'll close it.[br][br]Classic Plus is a Google Search feature that lets people upload or select images to use as a background on Google.com. Users won't be able to upload new pictures starting from October 16... | Oct 2, 2012 | ||
| 20: | Senate Committee Warns Google, Microsoft And Yahoo: Dodgy Movers "U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, late on Tuesday sent letters to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo alerting them to how their search engines are being gamed through search engine optimization tactics as part of a wider scam involving moving services..." | Sept 26, 2012 | ||
| 21: | FTC: Google Probe Will Be Done by Year End "The Federal Trade Commission is moving expeditiously to decide if Google used its search clout to harm competitors and expects to complete its investigation by the end of the year, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said on Wednesday." | Sept 20, 2012 | ||
| 22: | Google Acquires iOS App, Snapseed, Nik Software "Today I'm excited to welcome +Nik Software to the Google family!" | Sept 17, 2012 | ||
| 23: | Google crafts algorithms to get more women in more positions Engineering has historically been male-dominated, but geek culture runs particularly deep at the Chocolate Factory, where job interviews involve marching potential recruits through a battery of logic puzzles and coding challenges that rival most oral dissertation exams. Google-watchers say that tendency has increased since Larry Page became the company's CEO in 2011. A programmer himself, Page has assembled an inner circle of top product engineers to help steer the company, most of whom have been men. | Aug 26, 2012 | ||
| 24: | Google ordered to disclose all paid "commenters" "... the search giant "has failed to comply" with a 7 August order to provide the names of parties whose commentary on the suit may have been influenced by money." | Aug 22, 2012 | ||
| 25: | Google ordered to disclose all paid "commenters" "... the search giant "has failed to comply" with a 7 August order to provide the names of parties whose commentary on the suit may have been influenced by money." | Aug 22, 2012 | ||
| 26: | Google and Opera extend search provider deal Google Inc. has agreed with Norway's Opera Software ASA to integrate Google as the default search partner for the Opera mobile and desktop browsers | Aug 22, 2012 | ||
| 27: | Google Extends Patent Search With European Patent Office and Prior Art Finder "Starting this week, you can do the same for the millions of ideas that have been submitted to the European Patent Office," | Aug 15, 2012 | ||
| 28: | Google To Acquire Travel Assets, Frommer, From John Wiley and Sons "On August 10, 2012, Wiley entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its travel assets, including all of its interests in the Frommer's brand, to Google." | Aug 13, 2012 | ||
| 29: | Google Settles FTC Probe Into Privacy Charges With $22.5 Million Google Inc will pay $22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple Inc's Safari browser, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. | Aug 9, 2012 | ||
| 30: | Google Failed To Delete UK's Street View Personal Data, and Now 'In Breach' Of UK Data Privacy "The ICO is clear that this information should never have been collected in the first place and the company's failure to secure its deletion as promised is cause for concern," | July 27, 2012 | ||
| 31: | EU Regulator Says It May Seek Global Rules For Google The European antitrust chief said Wednesday that any changes Google offered to settle concerns that it might be tilting Internet search results in its favor should be applied worldwide. | July 27, 2012 | ||
| 32: | YouTube Switching Users To Optional Google+ Profiles "Starting today we're giving you the ability to change how you appear on YouTube..." | July 24, 2012 | ||
| 33: | Google 2Q 2012 Revenues $12.21 billion, Up 35pct Google Inc. reported consolidated revenues of $12.21 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2012, an increase of 35pct compared to the second quarter of 2011. | July 20, 2012 | ||
| 34: | Google Shuts Down iGoogle, Talk Chatback, Google Video, Mini And Others Today we're announcing a few more closures. | July 4, 2012 | ||
| 35: | Google Offers Concessions To EU Regulators To End Antitrust Investigation Google has offered concessions to EU regulators in a move to end antitrust investigations. | July 3, 2012 | ||
| 36: | Google Launches Nexus 7, a $199 Tablet Computer It will be sold for $199 from mid-July pitching it directly against Amazon's Kindle Fire.[br][br]It is set to be released in mid-July. | June 27, 2012 | ||
| 37: | AOL, Facebook, Google, Twitter Founding Members of Ads Integrity Alliance The alliance led by StopBadware will help the industry fight back together against scammers and bad actors.[br][br]Bad ads reduce trust in the web and in online advertising. | June 14, 2012 | ||
| 38: | UK Reopens Google Street View Investigation Specifically it wants to know what type of data was captured; when Google managers became aware of the issue; how the news was managed and why the full range of gathered data was not represented in a sample the firm presented to it in 2010. | June 13, 2012 | ||
| 39: | WSJ: Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom: Google's Amit Singhal Responds In a Wall Street Journal article titled "Google's Monopoly and Internet Freedom", Nextag's CEO makes the case, and in response, Google's Amit Singhal responds with "Setting the record straight: competition in search." | June 8, 2012 | ||
| 40: | Google Opens "Trusted Stores" Badge To US Merchants Starting today, Google Trusted Stores is open to all U.S. merchants who want to apply. | June 7, 2012 | ||
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