Amir Efrati

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Boom Time for Zillow, Trulia, Other Web Home-Search Firms

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on June 12 at 11:50 am PT

Prices of Bay Area homes are climbing quickly, but not as fast as the value of Bay Area technology companies that help people search for homes online.

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How Google Transfers Data to NSA

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 12 at 3:30 am PT

How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure “file transfer protocol,” or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.

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Google Breaks Up Mapping and Commerce Unit

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 14 at 9:20 am PT

Google Inc. executive Jeff Huber stepped aside as head of the Internet giant’s mapping and commerce unit on Wednesday, in a two-part management shift that also saw the chief of the Android unit, Andy Rubin, leave his position, said people familiar with the matter.

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Father and Son Peer Into the Future of Tech

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 7 at 12:12 pm PT

Ray Kurzweil and his son, Ethan, are both Silicon Valley futurists — though they have different ways of tackling what they perceive is coming next.

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Yahoo Leans on Facebook in Revamp of Home Page

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 20 at 4:57 am PT

Yahoo on Wednesday morning plans to unveil a much-awaited overhaul to its iconic home page, as Chief Executive Marissa Mayer looks to reverse a long-term decline in the time people spend on many of its sites.

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Google Works on Launching Retail Stores

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on February 18 at 7:32 pm PT

Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter, in another sign the company is studying Apple Inc.’s playbook for building a consumer-electronics brand.

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Reappearing on YouTube: Illegal Movie Uploads

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on February 8 at 3:50 am PT

Google Inc.’s YouTube has a familiar problem: Plenty of illegally uploaded movies are finding their way onto the website.

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Google, Microsoft, Amazon Clash in Cloud Services

Shira Ovide, Greg Bensinger and Amir Efrati, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on February 4 at 5:00 am PT

Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. have fought each other for dominance in mobile gadgets and Web searches. The latest front in their war is invisible: Computing horsepower.

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Google Creating Wireless Network, but for What?

Amir Efrati and Anton Troianovski, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on January 24 at 6:45 am PT

Google is trying to create an experimental wireless network covering its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, a move that some analysts say could portend the creation of dense and superfast Google wireless networks in other locations that would allow people to connect to the Web using their mobile devices.

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Ex-Yahoo CFO Tim Morse Joins Fast-Growing Video-Ad Company

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 7 at 9:37 am PT

Tim Morse spent the past 20 years working at companies that generate billions of dollars a year in revenue, most recently as the chief financial officer at Web pioneer Yahoo. Now he’s trying to build one.