Steve Bryant

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Policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic are putting pressure on China to stop artificially propping up its currency. While the underlying assumption is that a strong yuan will help the economies of those developed nations, those policymakers should be wary of an old Chinese proverb: be careful what you wish for. While U.S. lawmakers […]

Congress is expected to ask Google, Microsoft and Yahoo executives to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about Google’s planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick. The news comes during a week in which a Precursor Group analyst released a 36-page white paper arguing that the Federal Trade Commission could scuttle the deal. In a statement, […]

<p>In a move that once again puts Google into closer competition with Microsoft, the search giant launched today a fee-based, hosted site search service targeted at small and medium businesses. <p>The new Google Custom Search Business Edition helps SMBs add search capabilities to their Web sites. A free version displays ads, while businesses with more […]

An Australian government consumer advocacy group is suing Google for “misleading and deceptive conduct” in its SERP AdWords. The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission), the Australian Government’s consumer watchdog body, filed suit July 12 against Google Inc., Google Australia and Google Ireland, alleging that sponsored links for car dealerships took users to the Web […]

God bless user-generated service journalism. This video, by a 21-year-old student named Jimmy Ruska, explains how to use Google to quickly and efficiently find music files. The video has been viewed over 400,000 times since it was posted in April.

Two burgling n00bs who couldn’t suss how to open a combination safe at a Colorado amusement center turned to Google for help. “The burglary at Bigg City, formerly Mr. Bigg’s Family Fun Center, turned into a comedy of errors early June 10. The burglars tried to disable a security camera by repeatedly spraying it with […]

So yesterday Google rolled out a new GUI for Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and lookee here: The interface looks a lot like Windows Explorer. On the right of the start page you’ll find a navigation pane with folders. That’s folders, a marked departure from the tagging taxonomic structure they inherited from Writely after acquiring the […]

Google is rumored to be acquiring GrandCentral, a new company that’s received lots of press for its unified number application that lets you use one phone number for all your phones. The service sounds cool: You’re assigned a uninumber and whenever anyone calls it, all your phones ring simultaneously. All your messages land in a […]

Its gigantism leading to increasing scutiny and attack, Google is attempting to burnish its image with a slate of socially responsible announcements, including grants to green automobile technologies and internal investments in renewable energy sources. These grants are, however, small-bore compared to what other corporations have been giving. Google.org, the for-profit philanthropic arm of Google, […]