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Google Ad Revenues Broken Down By Industry For 2011 [Infographic]

Google made a lot of money in 2011 and most of the company's revenue came in the form of ad revenues. Yet what many internet users might not realize is that much of Google's wealth often comes ... continue

Google Announces New Privacy Policy And Terms Of Service, Raises Eyebrows

Google has been in the news quite a bit lately. From their successful social network to FTC concerns, they manage to stay in conversation. Today, they announced that effective March 1st, a new terms of service and ... continue

Google Spent Nearly $4 Million To Lobby Politicians Last Quarter

Google, in an effort to stop Congress from passing legislation that would directly affect them and their income, spent nearly $4 Million, $3.76 Million to be exact, in an effort to lobby and sway opinion in the ... continue

Ever wondered how Google makes all that money? Well now you can see for yourself [Infographic]

There is no doubt that Google makes a boatload, or several boatloads, of money and for the most part is the darling of Wall Street and investors. For those of us that aren't part of that rarefied circle of people ... continue

Youtube Hits 4 Billion Video Views Every Single Day

Youtube, the World's largest online video site, has reached yet another milestone. Ever since its release in 2005, the website has exploded in popularity and quickly became the one place where people tend to log on, every ... continue

Android To Get More Developers In 2012 Than iOS [Report]

Android and iOS continue to be the two largest in terms of smartphone and OS market share. Over the years, the majority of app developers have built apps for iOS first, and then, just maybe, built apps ... continue

Consumer Group Wants Regulators To Not Approve Google, Motorola Deal

Back in August, Google acquired Motorola Mobility, the mobile division of Motorola, for a whopping $12.5 Billion. As with any large acquisition, the deal must be approved before it can go all the way through and be ... continue

Social Networks Take On Google With ‘Focus On The User’

Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have been a bit upset over Google's recent changes to their social search product. If you're not familiar with the changes, basically it integrates Google Plus results into your normal, ... continue

Google Launches New Sign Up Form, Better Optimized For Google Plus

Google has released a new version of their sign up form which, while much more visually entertaining to look at, also looks to do away with anonymous accounts. The first two fields ask for your full name ... continue

Google+ Now Has 90 Million Users, Over Half Use It Daily

Google+, the tech giant's answer to a social network, is doing very well and according to Larry Page, CEO, extremely good. Today, Google had its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2011. Google Plus aside, the company ... continue

SOPA Blackout Gets People Involved Shows World’s Top Websites

Yesterday, January 18th, was the day that many websites around the World, participated in a blackout which is basically where they would blackout their website in order to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, ... continue

iPhone And Android Nearly Tied As The Smartphone Wars Heat Up

Competition between the iPhone and Android has been very heated the last several years and it seems that Apple's smartphone which originally held the top spot, is making it's way back to beat out Google for the ... continue

7,000 Sites Go Dark To Protest SOPA and PIPA

7,000 websites are going dark today to lead the Anti-SOPA and PIPA protests. Here's a short list of some of the bigger players and a description of what they have to say about the destructive nature of the ... continue

[Op-Ed] Why the Internet Giants Have Let SOPA Protestors Down

So it has begun. In the coming hours, lights will be switched off at an estimated 7,000 websites across the Internet as the web protests SOPA, an oppressive act that threatens to disfigure the Internet as we ... continue

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SOPA Protests: Google Hits Back at Rupert Murdoch

The SOPA wars continue. Google has hit back at Rupert Murdoch, after the media magnate and News Corp CEO called the search colossus a "piracy leader" that "streams movies free." In a tweet dated 15 January, Murdoch ... continue

Google Protests SOPA And PIPA By Censoring Logo, Offering Information And A Petition

Google has went dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two internet bills that threaten to slow the U.S. Economy and destroy the very foundations the internet was built on. No the company has not suspended searches ... continue

Google Contractors Maliciously Tamper Competitor’s Data, Fired Immediately

There's always a few bad apples out of a bunch of good ones. According to OpenStreetMap, an open source mapping project that is a direct competitor with Google Maps, user accounts that were attached to Google Internet ... continue

Google To Protest SOPA On Their US Home Page

With SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act heating up, many websites and web properties are doing their part to raise awareness for this disastrous bill that could threaten the freedom of the Internet. With sites such as ... continue

74% Of All Smartphone Purchases Will Be Android Or iPhone

A new research survey came out stating that in the next six months, 74% of all smartphone purchases will either be Android or iPhone. Commanding 90 percent of mobile phone market share, it's not a big surprise ... continue

FTC Adding Google+ To Antitrust Investigation

Last year, the FTC started their antitrust investigation of Google. Since then, the company has launched their social network, Google+ and just recently changes to search where Google+ is highlighted. This has sparked more concerns and the FTC ... continue

Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal With LG, VP Taunts Google

Patent wars over smartphones, especially over the last several years, have been at an all time high. Microsoft announced that they signed a patent-licensing deal with LG, a number two maker of smartphones. As much as Google would ... continue

Bing Beats Out Yahoo, Now Second Place To Google In U.S. Search

Yahoo continues on the decline and this time it's showing when it comes to search. New search numbers from comScore show that Microsoft's search engine Bing is now in second place for the U.S. search market. Google, ... continue