Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 7:01 am PT
Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).
Liz Gannes in Social on January 19 at 5:15 pm PT
Sometimes I feel like it would be easier to find the Fountain of Youth than get apples-to-apples metrics about Web site and app usage.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 19 at 1:28 pm PT
Fun with acronyms after Google’s numbers come in below Wall Street’s expectations.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 13 at 4:06 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 27, 2011 at 5:39 am PT
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reexamined and rejected a patent at issue in Oracle’s fight with Google over the use of Java in the Android mobile operating system.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on December 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
News Byte
Ina Fried in News on December 11, 2011 at 9:13 am PT
Google’s top three executives want to save
Hangar One, NASA’s iconic Moffett Field airship house. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are willing to pay the $33 million price tag in full, as long as they can park their eight private jets there once the revamp is done. NASA is said to be weighing the offer, according to the
Mercury News.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm PT
Facebook has done a major corporate reorganization in an effort to be more nimble.
Kara Swisher in News on November 29, 2011 at 10:01 pm PT
While he has recently been portrayed as Mr. Potter of Silicon Valley, it looks like the online gaming leader will not get greedy in the IPO.
News Byte
Liz Gannes in News on November 22, 2011 at 2:51 pm PT
Google today
disclosed plans to shut down or offload seven more products in its third house-cleaning session this fall under new CEO Larry Page. Most of the new targets have already been de-emphasized, so they don’t come as a surprise: Friend Connect (early social platform), Gears (offline access), Wave (newfangeld collaboration), Knol (like Wikipedia), as well as Bookmarks List, Search Timeline and a project called Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal.
