From the February 29 2012 Atlantic: Google, Eric Schmidt revealed in a speech, once considered getting into the digital currency game. The company has seen “various proposals,” its chairman told a crowd at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to develop a currency that would serve as tender for peer-to-peer economic exchanges taking place across [...]
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Wired Magazine: Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
January 24, 2012
From the February 2012 Wired Magazine: If Urmson’s team is taking a Googly approach to the auto industry, it’s also taking a Googly approach to driving. The company, Urmson notes, “is really all about processing big data,” and the road is just another data set to be mined. So Google isn’t teaching its computers how [...]
Nieman Journalism Lab: Google’s “Follow Your World” feature
October 30, 2011
From The Nieman Journalism Lab: “Google has a cool feature: an app, Follow Your World, that allows you to track satellite images of locations you specify within Google Maps and Google Earth. Each time Google updates its satellite and aerial imagery for the areas you’ve selected, it’ll send you a notification letting you know about [...]
WSJ: Twitter CEO Costolo on Apple, Privacy, Free Speech and Google; Far From IPO
October 18, 2011
From The Wall Street Journal: When a reporter asked Costolo whether Twitter will renew a recently expired deal with Google to show tweets as part of Google’s search engine, Costolo said “I don’t know.” He said the companies “can’t agree on what the appropriate value exchange is, and I don’t mean in terms of dollars.” [...]
Xconomy: Are Free Motorola Phones in Our Future? A VC’s Take on Why Google is Buying Motorola
August 21, 2011
Rebecca Lynn, a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures’: I think Google will at some point give Motorola phones away for free in a profoundly disruptive move to own the mobile advertising framework. Google’s business is search advertising. Everything they do is an effort to grow search. Why buy a handset manufacturer? Answer: To make more money [...]
Dan Lyons: Suck on it, AppleSoft — Google pulls a rope-a-dope
August 15, 2011
From RealDan blog: Everyone was baffled when Google made those crazy bids for the Nortel patents last month. Remember? They bid things like the distance from the earth to the sun, the number pi, and some other wacky numbers from mathematics. And today it all makes sense. Google just sandbagged its rivals. The [...]
Nieman Journalism Lab: Google News gets a new human touch, launching publisher-curated Editors’ Picks as a standing section
August 5, 2011
But the thing about humans is that, occasionally, they’re helpful to have around. Especially when it comes to the increasingly difficult task that is keeping track of the world as it twists and turns. Which is why, starting today, Google News is introducing a new section to its U.S. edition: Editors’ Picks, a display of [...]
NYT: Ambitions as Deep as Their Pockets
August 3, 2011
From The New York Times: A new generation of daredevils is seeking to plunge through nearly seven miles of seawater to the bottom of a rocky chasm in the western Pacific that is veiled in perpetual darkness. The billionaires and millionaires include Mr. Cameron, the airline mogul Richard Branson and the Internet guru Eric E. [...]
WSJ: Facial-Recognition Technology Proves Powerful, Intrusive
August 1, 2011
From The Wall Street Journal: Armed with nothing but a snapshot, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh successfully identified about one-third of the people they tested, using a powerful facial-recognition technology recently acquired by Google. The professor said the study also shows how Facebook, with its 750 million users, whose names and profile photos [...]
