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2 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

Google petitions FISA court for ability to disclose NSA user-data requests on First Amendment basis

Search giant Google petitioned the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday for permission to separately report the number of requests it receives from the court, such as requests tied to the National Security Agency's Prism program, claiming protections from the First Amendment right to free speech.

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Related Topix: Startups, WebMD, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, IT Services

2 hrs ago | CNet News

Google challenges DOJ's surveillance gag order

Attorney General Eric Holder, shown here in a file photo, and the FBI claim that publication of even aggregate numbers of government requests "is unlawful," Google told a court Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Startups, WebMD, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

6 hrs ago | Insider Monkey

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), Google Inc (GOOG): The Strange Coincidence That Built Wintel

Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation are so closely connected that they have their own celebrity-style name mash-up: Wintel.

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Related Topix: Startups, Microsoft, Intel, CPU, Science / Technology, PC, Computers, Offbeat

10 hrs ago | Insider Monkey

Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG): How You Can Prevail in the Smartphone Wars

You'd think that we would have heard everything about the ongoing legal dispute between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. by now.

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Related Topix: Startups, Apple, Semiconductors, Samsung Electronics Co, Electronics, iPad App, Google+, iPhone App, iPod touch App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone, Cable & Satellite, Telecom, ATT

14 hrs ago | ComputerWorld

Scorecard: Best Android office suite shoot-out

Thanks to mobile devices, you no longer need a laptop to stay productive on the go -- just the right software to turn your smartphone or tablet into a portable work powerhouse.

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Related Topix: Android, Startups

Mon Jun 17, 2013

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Biz Break: Netflix moves from SpongeBob to Shrek, gets a big boost on Wall Street

Today: Netflix makes yet another groundbreaking deal, lining up original children's programming from DreamWorks; stock hits highest level in nearly two years.

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Related Topix: Netflix, Startups, Ipad, Science / Technology, Encinitas, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Widevine Technologies

Insider Monkey

Google Inc (GOOG) Ponies Up $5M to Fight Online Child Exploitation

Google Inc has been about an open and transparent Internet so that billions of people on the planet can intercommunicate with each other and share information and experiences without borders.

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Related Topix: Startups, ITA Software, Enterprise Mobile, WebMD, Widevine Technologies, AdMob

USA Today

Apps from inspired developers will drive Google Glass

Steve Lee understands the hesitation some folks have about Google Glass. When he saw an early version of the concept, a pair of augmented-reality glasses that users could wear to enhance their everyday lives, he thought it was crazy.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Slater, IA, Iowa State University

International Business Times

Google settlement clears way for new Class C stock

The online search engine leader had planned to issue Class C shares as a dividend to investors.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology, Sergey Brin

Contra Costa Times

Snowden: Google, Facebook 'were misleading' in Prism denials

Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who leaked details of the National Security Agency's Prism program, said in an online chat Monday that Silicon Valley tech companies' denials of providing access to government officials "were misleading."

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Apple

InfoWorld

Feedly starts moving users to homespun RSS service as Google Reader death looms

Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Blog News

ITworld

Experts support Google in Oracle's lawsuit over Java APIs

More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive.

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Related Topix: Startups, Science, Computer Science

GigaOM

See inside Facebook's network & explore Google's data dreams at Structure

Infrastructure nerds, it's time to meet the accountants. At this year's Structure conference this Wednesday and Thursday we're focusing on the economics of cloud computing, not just for vendors, but for practitioners.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, AdMob, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

New Statesman

Google, and why we need to make tax a bit simpler

So, it's another episode in the endless soap of the Public Accounts Committee's pursuit of what it sees as corporate tax dodgers and, last week, of Google in particular.

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Related Topix: Startups

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Mediaite.com

Cheerio! Google Starts Interactive Father's Day Doodle With Image Of Black Dad

It's nice to see the 21st century being dragged into the 21st century. On the heels of Cheerios' decision to use an interracial family in an adorable television commercial , a decision that was a shock to the system for racists everywhere, Google has, for the first time, used an image of a black dad in it's Father's Day "doodle."

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Related Topix: Startups, Life, Interracial,Multiracial, Multiethnic, and Multicultural

International Business Times

iPhone 5S-Nexus 5 Face-Off: 3 Things to Know on the Imminent Apple and Google Flagship Battle

It's always interesting to fuse beauty and brute characteristics, especially when lent to a powerful mobile device like the upcoming Google opus Nexus 5. The rollouts are separate but observers cannot help but to tie the two gadgets together.

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Related Topix: Startups, iPhone, Science / Technology, CPU

TechCrunch

Google Pledges $5M To Fight Online Child Exploitation

The Internet has plenty of dark corners, but one of the darkest is surely the growing number of sites that traffic in child pornography.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Non-Profit

Examiner.com

DuckDuckGo, the new Google for your go-to search engine? It doesn't track users

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn't track users, has broken traffic records this week with almost 2.5 million searches on Thursday alone.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Scoop

Time to Worry About Google

A New Zealand computer scientist says we should be worried about the size and role of Google on the internet.

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Related Topix: Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science, Computer Science, Social Software

Courier News

Does Google want to conquer the world?

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Computers, Internet, Science / Technology, Hazlet, NJ

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