Google prunes unpopular services from its portfolio
Google will either shut down or stop supporting several free Web-based services as it retrenches its engineering resources.
Google will either shut down or stop supporting several free Web-based services as it retrenches its engineering resources.
Google is planning to lay off 100 recruiters, and is closing down engineering offices in Texas, Norway, and Sweden as the company copes with the global economic downturn.
Google launched on Wednesday a reseller program for the paid version of its Apps hosted collaboration and communication suite.
The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog asked that Google give users of its search engine the ability to "opt out" of leaving personal data, such as IP addresses, on Google's servers.
An analyst with ties to the telecom industry called Google a bandwidth hog in a report released last week.
The European Commission has set up an advisory panel including executives from Google and Intel to help it revise European Union laws on data protection.
Google called off its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo just three hours before the US Department of Justice was to file an antitrust complaint on November 5 aimed at blocking it, according to the lawyer that the government hired to pursue the case.
Google Monday acknowledged plans to "significantly" reduce the number of contractors it uses, according to a report on the Web site of the Wall Street Journal. The report noted that the company has no plans to cut its permanent workforce.
Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway.
Google's Eric Schmidt calls for new government spending to improve broadband and encourage alternative energies.
Fujitsu, BT, HP and IBM are the greenest ICT vendors, according to analyst group, Gartner.
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has elected five new faces to its board of directors.
Google increased its revenue and profit in the third quarter, as its top executives said the results were good while pledging to manage the business with a long-term outlook despite global economic challenges.
Google and Yahoo are in early settlement negotiations with the US Department of Justice in an effort to avoid an antitrust challenge to a proposed search advertising deal between the two companies, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
As part of Google's ongoing 10th anniversary celebration, the company is providing access to a 2001 version of the Google search index, allowing users to search the Web circa January 2001.