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Google Lobbies to Keep Political Wolves at Bay

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Google spent $5.2 million in lobbying in 2010, up almost one-third from the $4 million it spent in all of 2009.Per usual, the company...

Google Looking to Hire Mobile-Apps Makers to Combat Apple

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The Wall Street Journal uncovered something that isn't exactly a bombshell in the wake of Google's announcement last week that it would hire more...

Google Forecloses on Google Maps Real Estate Feature

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Google Jan. 26 surrendered to Zillow, Trulia and other real estate Websites by giving up on offering real estate listingsGoogle in July 2009 began...

Google Chrome Gets Desktop Alerts for Gmail, Chat

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With the exception of the super important ability to print Gmail messages from the cloud, I haven't been focusing on the passel little Gmail...

Google to Hire More Than 6,200 People in 2011

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Google served notice to rivals such as Apple and Facebook Jan. 25 when it put a big help wanted notice up on the Web...

Why Gary Reback Sees Google as the New Antitrust Antichrist

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After helping the Justice Department exorcise the demon that was Microsoft more than a decade ago, attorney Gary Reback is preaching about why he...

Google Apps Future Uncertain with Schmidt Vacating CEO Role

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Of the many different ways Google CEO Eric Schmidt's turning over ultimate control to co-founder Larry Page will impact the company I believe Google...

Google Floating on Mobile Cloud in 2011

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Several times in 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google was taking a "mobile first" approach to computing, including anything from smartphones to...

Google Games Coming, but When and in What Form?

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The jig is up. Google Games is coming. Let us no longer be fooled or fool ourselves.Yesterday, Mary Jo Foley discovered that Johnny Chung...

Android vs. iPhone, Warts and All

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The media spend an inordinate amount of time amping the pros of smartphones such as Apple's can-do-no-wrong iPhone and Google's latest high-end handsets.Some folks,...

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