Apr 23, 2007 | business, Google
Only two years ago, Google and Yahoo earned the same revenue and it wasn’t obvious which one would predominate for Web searches.You probably saw the business news. Google’s first-quarter revenue was more than twice Yahoo’s, and the gap is widening....
Apr 14, 2007 | business, Google
A prediction of things to come:MAY 12, 2017 – BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash. The deal had been rumored in various search blogs since the...
Mar 28, 2007 | business, Google
Google announced a new advertising program last week and the reports focused on a new Google policy that doesn’t affect us directly. (Briefly: Google sends money to advertisers when a web surfer clicks on a Google advertising link on a web page; the new program...
Mar 23, 2007 | business, news, Politics
On March 9 the Justice Department’s inspector general revealed that the FBI has been systematically abusing its expanded power to issue “national security letters” and obtain private information about US citizens and residents from telephone...
Feb 5, 2007 | business, mobile
The venerable Palm operating system is no more. It wasn’t long ago that the term “Palm” was the very definition of a handheld PDA, and the Palm operating system was inseparable in our minds from the device running it. Literally decades of marketing...
Jan 5, 2007 | Amazon, business, Internet
I can’t vouch for this, but Timothy Noah at Slate writes that Amazon has a 30-day price guarantee – if the Amazon price drops on any item within thirty days after you purchase it from Amazon, you can get a refund of the difference just by asking....
