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Larry Ellison Taking Witness Stand Today In Lawsuit Against Google
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is taking the witness stand today in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google. Ellison will be examined by Oracle’s lawyers. Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google for infringing on their patents and copyrights on Java while working on building the Android operating system.
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Google Drive Expected To Be Announced Next Week
Google Drive is expected to be released next week. TheNextWeb.com received a draft release from a Google Drive partner and it turns out that the company is going to give away 5GB of free storage. The website would most likely be available at http://drive.google.com. If Dropbox is not worried, they should be. Google is coming directly after them. You would be able to buy additional storage. Google Drive will work “in desktop folders” on both Mac and Windows machines. Last week we saw a leaked image of Google Drive being integrated into LucidChart.
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Reasons For Google’s Declining Cost-Per-Click Rates
This year Google reported some solid revenues and they even announced a dividend. The bad news is that they saw a decline in cost-per-click rates (CPCs). Google’s ad revenue is determined by the number of clicks on ads (paid clicks) and how much that advertisers pay for each click (CPC). Paid clicks has been on the rise, but CPC has been dropping. Google said the reasons for why CPCs are dropping is because of foreign exchange rates, the increase in mobile usage, faster growth in developing countries (causing lower prices), and changes in ad quality. The advertising landscape has been changing at a rapid pace with more people spending time on mobile devices, but eventually they will find a way to adapt and get better ROIs thus causing CPCs to go up again.
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FCC Fines Google $25,000 Over Street View WiFi Issues
The Federal Communications Commission has ordered Google to pay a paltry $25,000 for delaying an investigation into reports that the Street View cars were collecting personal information from WiFi networks. Google Street View is a service built into Google Maps and Google Earth that lets you view first-hand what a specific location looks like as captured by a Google Street View car. Sometimes the Street View cars inadvertently captures pedestrians at the worst moments as displayed by our funny Google Street View post. The case against Google started in 2010 when it was discovered that Google Street View cars were collecting personal data such as e-mails and web history from open WiFi networks.
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Categories FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, Google Street View
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Sergey Brin: Facebook and Apple’s Walled Gardens Are A Threat To The Open Internet
Sergey Brin gave a rather candid interview in The Guardian. Brin had warned that there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world” and that he was more worried than he had been in the past. Among the forces he listed was Apple, Facebook, SOPA, PIPA, and the movie industry.
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Categories Apple Inc., Facebook, Google, Sergey Brin
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Google’s Stock Split Will Cause The New Half To Not Have Any Shareholder Voting Power
When Google announced that they are splitting the company into two halves, it turns out that the newer half will not have any shareholder voting power. Google will be joining the likes of a liquor producer, home builder, and several other media conglomerates that are controlled by families. The current shareholders would have a new nonvoting share for every share they own. This will help Google CEO Larry Page, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt retain a lot of power.
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Categories Eric Schmidt, Google, Joseph Grundfest, Larry Page, sergey b, Stanford University
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How Google Drive Will Be Integrated With Lucidchart
Late last month, it was rumored that Google will be launching Google Drive in early April. That has not come true yet, but we do know that Google Drive will be coming out sometime soon. This is evidenced by a screenshot of a landing page that used to be on Lucidchart. Google’s cloud storage service would automatically sync documents into the cloud from Lucidchart.
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Google Announces Dividend and Revenues Of $10.65 Billion
Google has announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Google Board of Directors unanimously approved of a stock dividend proposal designed for preserving the corporate structure that has allowed Google to remain focused on the long term. The company reported revenues of $10.65 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, which is an increase of 24% compared to the first quarter of 2011. This results in a net income of $2.89 billion.
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How Google Counts Google+ Users At 170 Million
Whenever Google reports the number of Google+ users that are active, it does not necessarily mean that these are people that go directly to plus.google.com and browse the social network from there. When Google+ announced their redesign, Google SVP Vic Gundotra said that “more than 170 million people have upgraded to Google+.” Here is how Gundotra came up with that number.
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U.S. Government Does Not Want Megaupload To Hire Andrew Schapiro
Megaupload was planning to retain the services of Andrew Schapiro, the legendary lawyer that led YouTube to a summary judgment in their copyright trial against Viacom according to TorrentFreak.com. The U.S. government has filed documents that object to Schapiro’s law firm working with Megaupload. They cited conflicts of interest that involved Google, Disney, Fox, and YouTube.
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