Google may have lost to Apple in its bid to acquire Lala, a music service that grabs users’ digital music collections and hosts them in the cloud, allowing them to add to those collections for a mere 10 cents per Read the rest of this entry »
Google Will Ask Buzz’s Early Adopters to Confirm Privacy Choices
On Åžubat - 23 - 2010
Google will soon ask early Buzz users to re-confirm their decisions to auto-follow people in their contact list and whether they want to publish those lists to the world. It’s a further step in its quest quiet the privacy storm that erupted when Google decided to turn Gmail into a social networking application two weeks ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Google May Build Green-Tech Power Plants
On Åžubat - 22 - 2010
SAN FRANCISCO — Google will become directly involved in deploying energy technologies, the company’s director of climate initiatives said Monday.
The company has long supported and invested in renewable energy but kept its participation to greening its campus and funding several solar, wind and geothermal companies. In September, Google announced it was Read the rest of this entry »
Google Invests in Green with Renewable Energy Initiative
On Åžubat - 22 - 2010
Having gained a certain degree of expertise in developing and designing its own energy efficient data centers, Google thinks it’s in a position to help spur on the adoption of even more renewable energy sources.
The Mountain View company announced on Tuesday a new research and development group whose mandate will be to continue to develop electricity from renewable energy sources much cheaper (and cleaner) than coal. The new initiative, dubbed Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, will primarily target energy sources like advanced solar thermal power, wind power technologies and enhanced geothermal, according to Google co-founder Larry Page, and the company plans to shell out tens of millions of dollars in 2008 on R&D and related investments. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s Official: Google Can Sell Power Like a Utility
On Åžubat - 22 - 2010
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has granted Google Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, the right to behave like a utility.
The order grants Google Energy the power to sell energy, capacity and services at market rates.
Why does Google want to do this? Right now, the company rakes in billions of dollars from ads and it doesn’t have to have extensive support desks and remote repair teams — the kind of people-power providers must have on staff — in order to do it. Selling power is a much more hands-on business. Read the rest of this entry »
