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Obama's deputy technology officer McLaughlin: Free speech is net-neutrality foreign policy...the political and cultural norms of other nations. McLaughlin began Google's policy office in Washington five years ago before joining the administration earlier this year. The tricky thing about the Internet is that because of the... In this article: Barack Obama, Google, Tim Wu, United States, FCC, Germany, First Amendment, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Columbia University |
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Boston Globe -- Technology stories | November 12, 2009
Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads
...FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING WASHINGTON-Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging federal regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements. The Food and Drug...
In this article: Food and Drug Administration, Yahoo, Cholesterol, All rights reserved, E mail, and Pharmaceutical companies
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washingtonpost.com | November 18, 2009
TechNet Names Rey Ramsey CEO
...interest in issues in Washington. TechNet's members include venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Intel chief executive Paul Otellini and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. Ramsey will replace Lezlee Wistine,...
In this article: Rey Ramsey, One Economy, Cloud computing, John Doerr, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, Urban League, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
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AP Online | November 19, 2009
Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos
...- Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site. The new service, being launched this week, is intended to make...
In this article: Google Inc., YouTube, National Geographic, PBS, and Washington
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CNET News.com | November 10, 2009
Google's holiday gift: Free airport Wi-Fi
...or other devices that can use wireless Internet access. Google is spending some money for an opportunity to give a lot of people the warm fuzzies when they encounter the Google brand. And in the big picture, Google gets to show people what...
In this article: Yahoo, CNET News, Washington, Windows computers, E mail, Linux, Boingo Wireless, and Twitter
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YouTube turning on automatic captions
YouTube turning on automatic captions Google is ready to launch an ambitious attempt to provide captions for videos on YouTube. The company is holding an event in Washington D.C. Thursday to announce that it has developed a way to use the...
In this article: YouTube, Washington, D.C., Google Video, AOL, CNET, Vint Cerf, Yahoo, Apple, and Time Warner
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MarketWatch | November 20, 2009
Google, Yahoo target Internet 'freedom' bill
...Anthony Podesta. According to public records, in the third quarter of this year Google employed Podesta's firm, Podesta Group Inc., to lobby House and Senate members on the legislation, which was re-introduced in May. Podesta is widely...
In this article: Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Chris Smith, China, Instant coffee, and National Review
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Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. , the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of $23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work, and as the most powerful brand in the world. Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website on the Internet.
- Name:
- Google Inc.
- Type:
- Public
- Location City:
- Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- GOOG
- Industry:
- Internet, Computer software
- Key People:
- Products:
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- Help
- Google Labs
- See list of Google products
- Google Services & Tools
- Google Web Search Features
- Revenue:
- 31.3% $ 21.796 billion
- Operating Income:
- 30.4% $ 6.632 billion
- Net Income:
- .6% $ 4.227 billion
- Assets:
- $ 31.768 billion
- Equity:
- $ 28.239 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 19,665 –
- Motto:
- Don't be evil
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