As Google is set to acquire Motorola and the company’s 17,000 patents, it’s planning on asking for the same 2.25% maximum royalty per unit that Motorola is already demanding for every iPhone sold, reports Philip Elmer-DeWitt of CNN. (more)
NEW DELHI (AP) — Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world’s largest democracy, media reported Monday. (more)
Regulators with the European Union have asked Google to stop rolling out new privacy changes that the company originally introduced earlier this month. (more)
Google went on defense Tuesday in a formal letter and a blog post, responding to a congressional inquiry launched last week after users complained about the company’s change to its privacy policy. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. (more)
Twitter is prepared to begin censoring tweets in some countries in the hopes of growing its user base. (more)
Google’s head of consumer payments, Vikas Gupta, has resigned, reports Tricia Duryee AllThingsD. (more)
Two days after Google announced a change to its privacy policy that made it clear to users that Google would now share user information with advertisers across the broad spectrum of products the company offers, lawmakers stepped in demanding answers from the search giant. (more)
Yahoo!’s earnings indicate the company continues to struggle as a standalone entity competing with the likes of Google. (more)
As anyone with a web browser is aware by now, Rick Santorum has a Google problem with his last name, since gay columnist Dan Savage has created an alternate definition — one meant to embarrass Santorum — which rates higher in Google searches than the former senator’s own personal information. And according to Santorum, that’s not by accident. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and music costing U.S. companies billions of dollars every year. Critics said the bills would result in censorship and stifle Internet innovation. (more)
Mocality, which bills itself as “Kenya’s largest business directory,” accused Google of stealing customers Friday and Google quickly admitted the mistake on Google+, saying the company was “mortified” about what had taken place. (more)
In the six months since Google’s public disclosure of its Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust investigation, much of the debate around the issue has been focused on the evolution of search — how it has changed over the past decade, how information is presented to users and where information comes from. As we all well know, search engines like Google have become incredibly powerful tools and are hardly recognizable from their old format of traditional “10 blue links.” Today, search is smarter and more dynamic — rich with real-time content, news, images, maps and reviews. Search no longer provides users a simple road map to the Internet — users utilize search to find answers to questions, and Google, Yahoo! and Bing have all adapted toward this model to stay relevant in a fiercely competitive environment. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is preparing for a possible makeover of its board, according to news media reports published Saturday. (more)
Search Google for former ESPN analyst Craig James and you’re likely to also find references to an alleged murder of five prostitutes during his school days at Southern Methodist University. (more)
Polling data suggests that GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is more popular in New Hampshire than the rest of the Republican field. But recent Google statistics indicate that Texas Rep. Ron Paul and even Kim Kardashian are piquing greater interest than Romney in the Granite State. (more)
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses by a hair, with final tallies being reported in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but Google users across Iowa and the U.S. were more interested in reading about former Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Ron Paul. (more)
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul dominated Google searches in Iowa over the past month. (more)
Normally, the months preceding the Iowa caucuses are a blur of rallies, phone banks, and television commercials as presidential candidates blitz the state to turn out voters on their behalf. This election cycle, the usual flurry of activity has only just begun — even as the race has seen unprecedented volatility, with six different candidates having led Iowa polls at some point. The final result on January 3 remains difficult to predict, but the presidential primary so far has made it apparent that traditional political campaigns are being transformed by forces that can be explained through a framework that is redefining consumer marketing campaigns: Google’s “Zero Moment of Truth” concept. (more)
