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Google Break up motion passed by European Union

The European parliament has passed a vote that is intended to break up Google from its other commercial activities aside from the search engine business. The vote states that the online market is of particular importance in ensuring competitive conditions within the digital single market. It is believed that the ...

28 Nov
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Apple ditching Google as default search engine

Apple’s contract with Google is coming close to an end. In 2015, the iPhone smartphone maker will be free to mingle with other search engines and rumor has it that it is very possible Apple could be totally ditching Google as the default search engine for Safari. Currently, when you ...

27 Nov
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Google’s internet balloons thing is actually working

One of Google’s crazy projects seems to be coming of age, in fact, faster than that Google Glass a.k.a “Glasshole” project. Turns out the Internet Balloons (dubbed Project Loon) can stay in the stratosphere for 130 days. The project is geared towards providing faster internet speeds and to areas that are ...

23 Nov
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European Union wants to break Google up

An antitrust case against Google in Europe is threatening to break the tech giant up or at least that’s what the European Union intends to do. According to the Financial Times, a draft motion has been set to prevent search engines from engaging in other commercial services and to be ...

23 Nov
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Google Contributor to bring you websites without ads, for a fee

Google is setting up a new system called Contributor, where you pay between $1 and $3 per month to see websites that do not have ads on them. Chances are that every website you visit depends on advertising to sustain itself. Apart from the content, you are faced with no ...

21 Nov
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Google Launches Android 5.0, Lollipop, what’s new?

Google treated us to another hide and seek when it came to naming the latest Android version. In June at the Google I/O 2014 they said it would be Android L and sure as hell, the “L” stood for something we were all left guessing. Some people thought it would ...

15 Oct
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Google’s Helpouts feature lets you chat with doctor when you search for symptoms

Google is testing a feature that will allow you to chat with a doctor live when you search for symptoms related to any illness. The feature which has apparently been experienced by one reddit user will be rolled out in Google Helpouts. Google Helpouts allows you to meet people who ...

14 Oct
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Five of the 10 most used mobile apps worldwide belong to Google

Despite the fact that there are several apps being made everyday and others already in existence on Apple and Google stores, people have their 10 favorite ones. A Comscore study has found out that five out of the 10 most used mobile apps actually belong to Google. Also according to ...

24 Aug
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Google buys design firm Gecko to take care of ‘futuristic’ projects

Google is probably finally doing something about the design challenges facing their self-driving cars and other futuristic projects like Google X and Google Glass. Suffice to say that Google’s work in terms of current software and the Nexus phones have a serious sense of classy design, but that cannot be ...

24 Aug
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Google & Five other Asian Companies invest $300m in sea cable

Google, together with 5 other Asian companies are investing in a $300m undersea cable that will link Japan and the west coast of US in order to improve global internet connectivity. The other five firms include China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit, KDDI and Singte, with NEC Corporation also joining ...