Google is reportedly offering to brand its search results to avoid the European Commission taking formal action against the company’s alleged “abuse of dominance” in the search market.
Apple is reportedly launching a mini version of the iPad this month, as the firm looks to fend of increasing competition from the likes of Amazon, Google and Samsung in the growing mini-tablet market.
Google has warned it could make further job cuts to its Motorola Mobility team, following 4,000 layoffs already made after its purchase of the phone maker last year.
The Government is set to announce details of its controversial national identity plans, letting people use their mobile phones and social media profiles as official identification documents for accessing public services, according to a news report.
Google has launched its lightbox display ad format, which it calls the first of a new family of display ads that “allow marketers to pay only when a user engages.”
Google-owned Motorola has bought Viewdle, a company specialising in facial recognition technology.
Google has launched a new tool that will help firms manage website tags- snippets of code used to track traffic, insert ads and link to affiliates.
The video advertising effectiveness of Google’s TrueView ads has been demonstrated in a new report. It’s video advertising online ad campaigns on YouTube, which only charge marketers for ads watched in their entirety, produce an average of $1.70 in sales for every dollar spent, 2.4 times more efficient than TV ads.
Google has overtaken Microsoft in terms of share value, and leaving the internet giant trailing only Apple as the second wealthiest tech firm in the world.
Yandex has launched its own Internet browser, as the search giant looks to take on Google in the growing Russian market.The browser offers a relatively minimalist Russian-language interface based on the WebKit platform and Google’s Chromium code.