Tag Archives: Google
Google to hire more than 6,000 in 2011
BEIJING, Jan. 26 — Internet giant Google Inc. said it plans to hire at least 6,200 people this year in the company’s biggest expansion yet, according to media reports Wednesday. The hiring plan was announced on Tuesday by Google’s senior … Continue reading
Google fires engineer for snooping on users
BEIJING, Sept. 16 — Google confirmed Wednesday that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users. David Barksdale, a 27-year-old engineer in Google’s Seattle offices, used his position to break … Continue reading
Google Chrome supplants Safari as third most popular Internet browser in U.S.
BEIJING, June 30 — Google Chrome has replaced Apple Safari for the first time as the third most used Internet browser in the United States, behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla’s Firefox, according to media reports Wednesday. Chrome had … Continue reading
Google to unveil Chrome operating system in fall
BEIJING, June 3 — Internet giant Google said it is planning to release its own operating system, Chrome OS, for free this fall, media reported Thursday. The Chrome OS, seen as a rival to Microsoft’s Windows, will be designed initially … Continue reading
Google phases out Windows use: report
BEIJING, June 2 — Internet search giant Google is phasing out internal use of Microsoft’s Windows operating system out of security concerns, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. Citing several Google employees, the FT said the internal directive to move to … Continue reading
Play Pac-Man on Google
BEIJING, May 24 — Internet giant Google embedded a playable Pac-Man game on its home page during the weekend to mark the 30th birthday of the classic arcade videogame. Internet users who opened Google’s home page after 1500 GMT Friday … Continue reading
Google begins books digitization in French library
BEIJING, Dec. 22 — Internet search giant Google began digitizing half a million books from the Municipal Library of Lyon, France, Monday. Patrick Bazin, director of the Municipal Library of Lyon, said Google is contracted to scan the books in … Continue reading
Iraqi gov’t opens YouTube channel
BEIJING, Nov. 26 — The Iraqi government Wednesday launched an official channel on the popular video-sharing website YouTube. The channel on the Google-owned site was opened when Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was paying a visit to Baghdad. Iraqi Prime … Continue reading
Apple director leaves Google’s board
BEIJING, Oct.13 — Arthur Levinson, a director at Apple Inc. and Google Inc., resigned from Google’s board, the Internet search leader announced Monday. Levinson’s move averted a regulatory probe into overlapping directors in the two companies. The Federal Trade Commission … Continue reading
Service outage hits “majority” of Gmail users
BEIJING, Sept. 2 — Gmail, Google’s popular free e-mail service, failed for more than an hour Tuesday in many places, affecting a “majority” of its millions of email users. The outage affected “a majority” of Gmail users, the company said, … Continue reading