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Disaster Alerts Help Google Grow Its Competitive Ad-Vantage, Strengthen The Brand

Late yesterday Google revealed it would be issuing "Public Alert" disaster warnings using Google Maps. Sounds great, but combined with other recent news it adds to bigger worries that Google is diluting its brand. Here's why that's not the case.READ»

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Meet Google Music's Chief Record Store Geek, Tim Quirk

To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob Gordon.READ»

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The Great Tech War Of 2012

Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy.READ»

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Why Google Will Win

Its CEO is daring, decisive--and willing to wait for his big bets to pay off.READ»

Steve Jobs's Legacy - And The Next Tech War

In a few days Fast Company’s next magazine issue will begin arriving in newsstands and mailboxes. The issue has four different covers, and one of them features a picture of Steve Jobs. But this is not a commemorative obituary. In ...READ»

What Larry Page Will And Won't Reveal On Thursday's Google Earnings Call

In an era when it's competing strongly with Apple and Microsoft, and nobody knows quite how much Android is bringing to the bottom line, what will Google reveal--and what do we wish they'd reveal--on tomorrow's quarterly earnings call? READ»

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What Google Gobbling Motorola Mobility Means For The Way We Think About Smartphones

While the tech world focuses on the strategy behind Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, we take a look at what the move means for the way we think about our smartphones, and the way they work.READ»

"I'm Feeling Lucky": Google Employee No. 59 Tells All

We interview Douglas Edwards, Google's brand manager from 1999 to 2005, about his new book and discuss the challenge of humanizing information technology, Sergey Brin's anatomically correct cow costume, and how Google+ might succeed where orkut, Google's first social network, failed.READ»

Google's Marissa Mayer Reveals Intense New Focus On Products In The Larry Page Era

Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. READ»

Report: Google Ties 25% of Employee Bonuses to Success in Social

According to Business Insider, Google CEO Larry Page sent out a memo to employees detailing how 25% of their annual bonuses will now be connected to how well Google pushes out its social strategy. READ»

Is Larry Page's "Rip the Band-Aid Off" Approach to Reorg Good for Google?

The new/ old CEO is turning the Googleplex topsy-turvy rather quickly.READ»

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iFive: Google Slips in China, Anonymous Hits Sony, Apple Jailbreakers Get Ads, Sony Reveals iPhone 5 Cam, Google's New/Old CEO

It's a new week--but the same light-speed innovation is still happening everywhere. We capture the early good stuff here with i5. READ»

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What Larry Page Can Learn From Facebook, Apple, GE, And Others

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Google's Eric Schmidt Gets a $100 Million Payoff

Google's ex-CEO Eric Schmidt has just been awarded a $100 million golden thank-you for his time in Google's big chair. He'll retain around of 10% of the company's voting rights too.In a regulatory filing today Google's revealed it's ...READ»

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Will Google Change With Larry Page, Not Eric Schmidt, as CEO?

When Google announced the CEO shakeup Thursday, it seems most were far from concerned about the change.READ»

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Google CEO Shakeup: Larry Page to Replace Eric Schmidt on April 4

Only minutes away before Google's earnings call, the search giant made a surprise announcement: Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be replaced by co-founder Larry Page.READ»

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I Won't See the Google Movie Unless Justin Timberlake Stars as Larry Page

In the wake of The Social Network's buzz, another Internet giant may be getting the big-screen treatment: Google.READ»

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Can Google Tablet Learn From Nexus One's Failings?

On Friday, as Steve Jobs was explaining just why the iPhone 4's antenna woes were not exclusive to his smartphone, Google quietly released a very short item of news on its blog. Two months after shutting up its online shop, its first ...READ»

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iFive: Seabed Oil Leak Fears, Jobs Tops Power List, Vaccination Patch, Bloodhound SuperSonic Car, Paywall Accounting

While you were sleeping, innovation was sticking itself in what looks like a Blue Man Group's torture chamber, phoning a friend from his smartphone, and noticing that there are similarities between Apple's antenna testing facility and ...READ»