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Google Announces It’s All Grown-Up With Alphabet’s New Logo

Google has a new owner: a holding company called Alphabet, run by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Alphabet owns a few other things, too: Namely, every company ever created or acquired under the tech giant’s many-tentacled purview.

12 Aug 2015, business.mega.mu

Google's Gmail Blocked in China

Google Inc's Gmail was blocked in China after months of disruptions to the world's biggest email service, with an anti-censorship advocate suggesting the Great Firewall was to blame.

30 Dec 2014, business.mega.mu

Google Shuts Russia Engineering Office

Google is to close its engineering office in Russia, in the latest sign that a crackdown on internet activity by Russian authorities this year could hasten an outflow of engineering talent from the country.

12 Dec 2014, business.mega.mu

Google Unveils Ambitious Android Expansion at Conference

Google wants to be everywhere: in your home, your car and even on your wrist.

26 Jun 2014, business.mega.mu

Google Sells Out of White Glass Model

Tuesday, for the first time, Google Glass was made available to the general public. As part of the one-day-only offering, anyone in the U.S. could buy the $1,500 face-mounted computers and get a free pair of glass or sunglass frames.

16 Apr 2014, business.mega.mu

Android Wear: Google’s Smartwatch Plans Come Into Focus

Its new mobile operating system, Android Wear, is tailored for smartwatches and other wearable devices. The software focuses on notifications and quick responses to show you information as you need it, while keeping interaction to a minimum

19 Mar 2014, business.mega.mu

Why Google Just Sold Motorola to Lenovo for $3 Billion

Well this is unexpected. Google is selling Motorola, the iconic handset maker it bought for $12.5 billion in May of 2012, to Chinese PC maker Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Google CEO Larry Page has penned a short note about the sale, but he doesn’t get into details. Here’s why the deal makes sense.

30 Jan 2014, business.mega.mu

Mauritius Among the Most Popular Destinations at the Internet

It appears twice in the Top 10. Mauritius is one of the most popular country according to the annual ranking of Google locations, "Zeitgeist charts" . In India, the island comes in third place.

19 Dec 2013, business.mega.mu

N.S.A. Said to Tap Google and Yahoo Abroad

The National Security Agency and its British counterpart have apparently tapped the fiber-optic cables connecting Google’s and Yahoo’s overseas servers and are copying vast amounts of email and other information, according to accounts of documents leaked by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden.

06 Nov 2013, business.mega.mu

Google Releases Nexus 5 Phone with Kit Kat

Google on Thursday released its latest candy-themed mobile operating system: Android 4.4, more deliciously known as Kit Kat.

01 Nov 2013, business.mega.mu

Top 10 Clever Google Search Tricks

Google is a more powerful tool than most people realize. You can get much more refined searches with Google's built-in tools, advanced operators, and third-party extensions. You can also use it for some pretty cool stuff if you know the right tricks. Here are 10 of our favorite lesser known tricks and features.

27 Oct 2013, business.mega.mu

How Much Do Average Apps Make?

The last few years have seen an unprecedented number of people rushing to develop mobile apps for iOS and Android.

16 Aug 2013, business.mega.mu

Is Google Gobbling Up the Indian Internet Space?

Google has a staggering amount of control over the Indian internet space. That can’t always be good

27 Jul 2013, business.mega.mu

Facebook's Advertising Is Starting To Spiral Out Of Control

Two weeks ago, Facebook announced that it hit one million advertisers using the site for the first time ever.And boy does it show.

16 Jul 2013, business.mega.mu

5 Surprising Facts About How Google Hires

The secret to Google's hiring strategy? Hint: it has nothing to do with those famously convoluted interview questions!

09 Jul 2013, business.mega.mu

Google's Excellent Plan To Bring Wireless Internet To Developing Countries

The WSJ is reporting that Google GOOG -1.1% is working on various technologies to bring wireless internet access to a number of developing countries.

28 May 2013, business.mega.mu

Google's Must-Learn Secret of Success

If it works for Google (and for Apple), it might work for you.

27 May 2013, business.mega.mu

Six Ways Google Is About To Transform Your Small Business

Last week, Google held its annual I/O Conferencefor its developers and partners and announced a bunch of new products and services. This is a company that doesn’t stop innovating. They are not afraid to invest in new ideas, make changes, expose themselves to criticism. They are also not afraid to kill projects that aren’t working out either. Good for them.

22 May 2013, business.mega.mu

Google Glass Has Already Been Hacked By Jailbreakers

With a name like Glass, it was just asking to be cracked.

28 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu

Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can Predict The Market

Thuesday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks. Their research result:

28 Apr 2013, business.mega.mu