MARCH 21, 2011 by Nicholas Carr “If you look at the history of the world, up until 1700 nothing much happened.” That’s what Karl Marx said to Friedrich Engels when the two first met, at a cafe in Paris, in 1844. No, I’m kidding. The guy who actually spoke those words is Hal Varian, Google’s [...]

By April Dembosky in San Francisco Published: March 14 2011 Facebook said it was entering the fast-growing “deal of the day” market, posing a challenge to online discount marketing pioneers Groupon and LivingSocial. The social network’s large audience and detailed database of user preferences positions it to be a fierce competitor in this market, which is [...]

By AMIR EFRATI Google Inc., trying to become a middleman for selling video ads on the Internet, will soon test a service that matches advertisers with website publishers, including Google’s own YouTube video site. The Silicon Valley company is creating the video marketplace within its DoubleClick Ad Exchange, Neal Mohan, a Google vice president for product [...]

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: March 10 2011 I rediscovered my old AOL e-mail account this week and was taken down e-memory lane as the famous “You’ve Got Mail!” message boomed from the PC speaker as I signed in. After years of neglect and only spam in my inbox, it was like a voice [...]

By Richard J. Tofel Editor’s Note: Richard J. Tofel is general manager at ProPublica, a Wall Street Journal veteran, and author of a number of books, most recently Eight Weeks in Washington, 1861: Abraham Lincoln and the Hazards of Transition. Here he looks toward a future when search engine optimization has been rendered obsolete by advancing technology — [...]

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Tim Bradshaw in London Published: February 24 201 The digital music market is set to be shaken up as soon as this summer as Apple, Google and Spotify race to deliver new services that labels warily hope may reverse a decade of declining revenues. Each of the technology companies is taking [...]

By DAVID SEGAL Published: February 12, 201 PRETEND for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result? There are, of course, a lot of possibilities. Macy’s comes to mind. Maybe a specialty chain, like J. Crew or the Gap. Perhaps a Wikipedia [...]

Dan Frommer | Feb. 12, 2011, 10:12 PM Former Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, now at Kleiner Perkins, is famous for her amazing slideshow presentations about the future of the Internet, the rise of mobile computing, and new business models. Here’s her latest presentation, which, according to TechCrunch, she’ll be delivering today with Matt Murphy at a Google event…more

By Richard Waters Published: July 12 2010 18:51 | Last updated: July 12 2010 18:51 In an office in Santa Monica, wedged between downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean, the future of the media industry is being drawn up. Demand Media is a company created specifically for the Google Age. It tracks the queries entered [...]

By Martin Langeveld /  March 9  /  12:37 p.m. Google’s economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission’s second round of hearings on the future of journalism. (The study is entitled “How will journalism survive the internet age?” Round 1 was held in December; transcripts and other material are linked here — scroll down. Not [...]

Before our digital lives disappear too far into ‘the cloud’, we must wrest it from corporate and governmental control Charles Leadbeater guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 January 2010 09.00 GMT The internet, our relationship with it, and our culture are about to undergo a change as profound and unsettling as the development of web 2.0 in the [...]

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And ETHAN SMITH With the new tablet device that is debuting next week, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry—and expand Apple’s influence and revenue as a content middleman. In developing the device, Apple focused on [...]

By BRAD STONE and MIGUEL HELFT Published: November 13, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO — Google and groups representing book publishers and authors filed a modified version of their controversial books settlement with a federal court on Friday. The changes would pave the way for other companies to license Google’s vast digital collection of copyrighted out-of-print books, and might resolve [...]

14.10.09 Catherine Neilan Google is poised to launch its “buy anywhere, read anywhere” digital books programme Google Editions simultaneously in the US, UK and Europe within the first half of next year. Speaking at the Tools of Change conference in Frankfurt, Amanda Edmonds, Google’s director of strategic partnerships, said the programme would be rolled out [...]

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press Friday, September 18, 2009; 4:28 AM SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is counting on the crown jewel of its online advertising empire to burnish a diamond in the rough. Hoping to take an even bigger bite out of ad budgets, Google has melded the technology powering its lucrative search [...]

How to think about news in the link economy By Peter Osnos The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and magazines who increasingly see Google as an enabler of their demise. Barely a decade ago, Google received [...]

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expanding its real estate listings on Google Maps in a move that could pit it against existing listing sites and could also create additional tension with listing services. Starting Monday, users in Australia and New Zealand can search for available properties on Google Maps, according to the Google Australia blog. Two listing [...]

Wednesday 15 April 2009 | 10:39 AM CET   UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media said it will offer enhanced email services to its four million home broadband customers in partnership with Google. The operator’s new email service will offer customers over 7 GB of storage and @virginmedia.com email addresses for the first time. ..read more

Written by Richard MacManus / January 6, 2009 6:30 PM  A new report from Forrester presents a cost analysis of cloud-based email systems in enterprises, such as Google Apps or Yahoo!’s Zimbra. In the report, Forrester argues that cloud-based email services are cheaper than running email on-premise for all companies with less than 15,000 employees. [...]

(International Herald Tribune) By Brad Stone Published: March 19, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO: Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle. [...]

Social Networks advertising dilemma There was something a little dispiriting about Google’sannouncement last week of its plans to bring video advertising to YouTube. This was only partly a result of the deadening sensation instilled by a sense of creeping commercialisation… more

Microsoft Corp.’s $6 billion deal to buy an online-ad specialist called aQuantive Inc. puts into high gear a race between Madison Avenue and a new guard of technology businesses that are trying to dominate the unbridled market in brokering Internet advertisements …more