As WSJ Reporter Heads to Ex-Colleague’s News Startup, Newspaper Seeks New Tech Hires

A handful of departures at the business paper come as it seeks to expand tech coverage.
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Google to Spend Up to $500 Million Marketing “Moto X” Phone

As Motorola Mobility prepares to unveil its first flagship smartphone since being acquired by Google Inc. last year, new details are emerging about the device’s design and Google’s substantial support for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.