8 posts and columns on Alan Eustace

Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo

in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.
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Google Renews Firefox Search Royalty Deal

in News on December 20, 2011 at 10:49 am PT

Mozilla is about to announce that it has signed a new three-year agreement for Google to be the default search option in its Firefox browser.
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Google Updates Its Management Page…By Taking Almost Everybody Off It

in Social on April 22, 2011 at 6:41 am PT

We’d chided Google recently for its out-of-date management page, given the departures and promotions since Larry Page took back the CEO title on April 4. Now the company has, indeed, updated its management page…by taking almost everybody off of it.

More Google Management Changes: CFO Patrick Pichette Adds BizOps and HR to His Duties

in Social on April 11, 2011 at 12:05 am PT

New Google CEO Larry Page has handed CFO Patrick Pichette control of business operations and human resources, giving the well-regarded exec more power over the company’s internal operations.

Google Street View: Chronology of a Cock-Up

in News on October 29, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Much as Google would like Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to follow the Federal Trade Commission’s lead and close his inquiry into the inadvertent collection of user data by its Street View cars, that seems unlikely. Blumenthal, whose office is spearheading a multistate investigation into Google’s Wi-Fi data-gathering debacle, says he has no plans to end it simply because of some announced improvements to the company’s privacy practices.

Google Street View Cars Collected Wi-Fi User Data for Three Years

in News on May 14, 2010 at 2:23 pm PT

Responding to questions about its Street View data collection practices in an April 27 blog post, Google said that it captured only publicly broadcast Wi-Fi network names and their MAC addresses and nothing else–certainly not “payload data,” the personal information being sent over those networks. Well, guess what Google has unwittingly been collecting these past three years?

The Mysterious GPhone Unveiled: A Slideshow History

in Mobile on January 5, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Journey through a series of photos documenting the long march to the announcement of Google’s Nexus One phone. It has been, as you will see, a very long and winding road to the phone’s unveiling today in Silicon Valley.
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Google to Apple: You Lie

in News on September 18, 2009 at 9:47 am PT

Well this is uncomfortable: Asked by the Federal Communications Commission in August if it had rejected Google’s Voice app from its iTunes App Store, Apple claimed it had not and that the app was still under review. But according to a newly unredacted document from Google, Apple did reject the app.
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