Topic: Google Inc.

Consumer Web Software Seeps Into the Workplace

Office tech is getting a casual Friday makeover, says Farhad Manjoo, who explains why we should celebrate the Facebookization of the enterprise.READ»

Robots Are Changing the Future of Telecommuting

What does the $15,000 Anybot tell us about the future of telecommuting?READ»

Deliberately Uninformed, Relentlessly So [a Rant]

Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year. Many of those people have seen every single episode of "American Idol." There is clearly a correlation here.READ»

The Dead Sea Scrolls Hit Google

Google has already placed millions of books and historic documents online. Now, thanks to some generous external funding and intra-institutional wrangling, it's the Dead Sea Scrolls' turn.READ»

Tokyo Eco-Startup Fullcircle Innovations Is Announced as a Finalist in Red Herring 100 Asia Prize

Solving climate change is a big challenge that will require cooperation and innovation on a global scale. Tokyo startup Fullcircle Innovations is taking on this challenge with its offerings at GreenITers.com and EcoAppsFree.com.READ»

Microsoft Launches Office 365, Bringing Millions Into the Cloud

Microsoft is bundling a bunch of its business applications into a single, easy-to-buy package. It's the latest indication that our software will soon live in the cloud, not on our computers.READ»

Skate Where the Puck Is Going

Anyone in the venture business will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere and find its way into every aspiring entrepreneur's pitch. I call this "the puck at your feet" because it's not where the industry is heading but rather where the industry is today. By the time you launch your buzz word feature everybody will be offering that buzz product. You need to think about where the puck is going.READ»

Canada, Spain Find Google Violated Privacy Laws, Collected Loads of Personal Data, Medical Records

Google gets another ticket from a government accusing its fleet of Street View vehicles of speeding past privacy laws.READ»

Steve Jobs's Android Obsession Analyzed

Steve Jobs has a certain competitor's phone prominently on his mind. An investigation.READ»

Jobs Takes a Swing at Android, BlackBerry

Last week, Google's Eric Schmidt touted the virtues of Android's "open" system over the "closed" Apple iOS. Today Steve Jobs hit back, arguing those terms are just a "smokescreen" clouding the "real issue." Jobs had some unkind words for RIM, too.READ»

Can Livestrong Survive Lance Armstrong and a Doping Scandal?

The world's most famous cancer survivor has been his foundation's biggest asset, even as it grew into an innovative force in health care. Now his legal troubles may make him a risk.READ»

• Built Strong: Measuring Livestrong's Revenue, Spending, Followers and Reach
• Meet Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman, the Most Savvy Health Care Leader in Social Media

Windows Phone 7: This Name Does Not Sing to Me

Windows Phone 7 asks: Are operating system names going to steal the cell phone spotlight?READ»

Google Grabs State Dept. Star Jared Cohen for Foreign Policy "Think/Do Tank"

The youngest ever member of the Policy Planning staff showed the State Department how to use technology for diplomacy. Now Cohen's going to see if some of the thorniest foreign policy issues can be tackled from the private sector.READ»

Evaluating Your Performance at the End of a Season

Three questions to ask after the swell concludes.READ»

T. Boone Pickens' V-Vehicle is Now Next Autoworks

T. Boone Pickens' grand green energy plans have been shaken up once again--this time with a new name (Next Autoworks) and a new CEO (Kathleen Ligocki) for V-Vehicle, Pickens' Google and Kleiner Perkins-backed vehicle startup. READ»

Google, Slooh, Bring Amateur Star Maps to Google Earth's Sky

As part of Google's ongoing mission to map everything, it's partnered with Slooh to add-in amateur star photography to the Sky in Google Earth. READ»

AT&T Sells iPads Direct to Businesses, Boosts Apple's Tablet Onslaught

Apple's iPad is already seeing fervent adoption by business folks the world over. But AT&T is giving the 3G version of the tablet a boost by selling it direct to business users via its enterprise tariff scheme.READ»

Forget Advertising: In-App Purchasing Is Where the Dollars Are At

New data demonstrates that consumers are happy to make purchases within an app they've already bought. Indeed, that revenue is starting to dwarf advertising income.READ»

iFive: Google's Growth, AOL and News Corp, WikiLeaks Cash Woes, Patent Trolling, Spotify to Go Virgin

Friday's rolled around again, and while you were dreaming, other people were ending their work week. Here's the early tech news that's resulted: READ»

Google on Facebook-Bing Social Search: What, Us Worry?

A day after the Bing-Facebook alliance that all but slapped them in the face, Google executives say they're getting their social search on too.READ»

Can Rosetta Stone Reach the Fourth Level of Advantage?

Rosetta Stone is on a proven path, the same one that most of the highly disruptive companies of the past twenty years--Dell, RIM, Google--have trodden.READ»

Meet Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman, the Most Savvy Health Care Leader in Social Media

This afternoon, the Blogworld crowd in Vegas hears from the master of social media in health care, Doug Ulman, the CEO of Livestrong. While reporting on the cancer foundation for the November issue of Fast Company (on newsstands Oct. ...READ»

iFive: AOL-Yahoo Rumor, Apple's PC Share, Outlook for Macs, Mobile Barcodes a Hit, Feds Scanning Facebook Again

It's Thursday morning, the Chilean miners are free. And even more innovation news emerged from the depths while you slept.READ»

Facebook Friends an "Underdog," Microsoft

Think it's a far-fetched marketing ploy to position Microsoft and its Bing search engine as the scrappy startup nipping at Google's heels? It wouldn't be the first time someone called Bill Gates's former company "Underdog."READ»

The Bing-Facebook Alliance: Six Things You (and Google) Should Know

Bing and Facebook just made search social. Will your online life ever be the same again?READ»