“Google” on The Daily Caller

A new company backed by two Google Inc. GOOG -0.54% billionaires, film director James Cameron and other space exploration proponents is aiming high in the hunt for natural resources—with mining asteroids the possible target. (more)

Not happy with the redacted version of the FCC’s report on its Google Street View investigation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the full 25-page document. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wanted to compete against Google’s Android software in the smartphone market before deciding instead to sue his potential rival for copyright and patent infringement. (more)

Google will reportedly be hit with a regulatory fine for bypassing Safari users’ privacy settings. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will soon conclude its investigations and is expected to issue a fine within the next 30 days. The fine could be far greater than the $25,000 that Google was recently slapped with by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for privacy issues involving its Street View car. (more)

Google Inc. (GOOG), whose Android software runs on more than 300 million mobile devices, denied stealing Oracle Corp.’ technology to develop the program. (more)

Oakley Inc. is developing technology that can project information directly onto lenses, putting the sunglass maker into potential competition with Google Inc. (GOOG) (more)

The trial over whether or not Google stole parts of Oracle’s Java programming language has finally begun. (more)

If tech experts are right, the use of cash and credit cards will have mostly fallen out of use by the end of the decade. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Google is adding 600 movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the titles it has available for rent on YouTube and also Google Play, its digital content store for Android-powered mobile devices. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000, saying the online search leader impeded an investigation into how it collected data while taking photos for its “Street View” mapping feature. (more)

The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Google is tweaking its social network, Google Plus, to make it easier to use and to distinguish it from rival Facebook. (more)

If you’re a vegetarian, you don’t want to see an online ad for a hamburger joint – and the hamburger joint doesn’t want to waste its ad dollars on you.  Seems only reasonable – yet some in Washington see a problem with this. (more)

Google’s Project Glass demo is certainly the coolest hardware demo so far this year. Behind the scenes is something equally intriguing: artificial intelligence software. (more)

Google on Wednesday unveiled Project Glass, a secret program designed to bring augmented-reality to the masses. (more)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google forfeiting $500 million last year will receive $230 million of that money, federal officials said Monday. (more)

Leave it to Google to get the April Fools’ party started one day early. One of the company’s fun little experiments for tomorrow’s day of tech tomfoolery is the addition of a new “8-bit Quest Maps” feature to Google Maps. (more)

On Feb. 1, a few hours after Facebook declared its intention to raise $5 billion in what will likely be the largest initial public offering in tech history, Mark Zuckerberg gave close followers of his company a potential clue to its future. On his Facebook profile, he uploaded a photograph of his desk and a large sign that read in big red letters, “Stay focused & keep shipping.” Yet it was the adjacent MacBook laptop in the image that drew the most attention. Visible on the computer’s screen was a blurry image of a Facebook page and, at the top, what seemed to be an unusually elongated white box. Web pundits speculated the image showed a prototype of a new Facebook search engine. (more)

Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright infringement trial are an accurate guide. (more)

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