Tag: Google

  • Google Bolsters Video Push With On2 Deal

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc said it would acquire video compression software maker On2 Technologies Inc for $106.5 million, stepping up efforts to foster the spread of Internet video. The stock deal, which represents a 57 percent premium to On2’s Tuesday closing price, is Google’s first acquisition of a publicly traded company. On2’s technology shrinks video… Read more

  • Google’s Schmidt Quits Apple Board

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc’s board of directors, Apple said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that with Google’s recent unveiling of a computer operating system, "we have mutually decided that now is the right time for… Read more

  • Twitter Hack Puts Spotlight on Password Weaknesses

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Twitter has been hacked, sort of. Actually, the Google Apps account used by Twitter employees was hacked, which led to the deeper compromise of the Twitter corporate network and the unauthorized release of data regarding the company’s growth plans and credit card numbers of several employees. It’s believed that a hacker named Croll used the… Read more

  • Google CEO Sees Chrome Netbook Out Later This Year

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said there may be announcements later this year about netbook PCs running its new Chrome operating system, as the Internet giant makes its deepest push into Microsoft Corp’s business. Schmidt also said on Thursday that while the worst of the economic downturn has passed, there aren’t any… Read more

  • Microsoft VARs View Google Chrome OS as Opportunity

    Jessica Davis

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    Plenty of pundits are talking about how much Microsoft has to lose when Google releases its Chrome operating system, scheduled to debut on consumer netbooks at the end of 2010. And aside from Linux itself, Google’s forthcoming Linux-based Chrome OS may very well pose the biggest threat to Microsoft’s OS dominance that the company has… Read more

  • Google Aims Directly at Microsoft with New PC Platform

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc is planning a direct attack on Microsoft Corp’s core business by taking on the software giant’s globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said on Tuesday it would launch a new operating system… Read more