The resources come from a commitment by Google's founders to devote approximately 1 per cent of the company's equity plus 1 per cent of annual profits to philanthropy, as well as employee time.
Internet search giant Google announced its largest layoff, saying it will cut 300 of DoubleClick's 1,200 employees, the online advertising company it acquired last month for $ 3.2 billion. Google said about a quarter of the company's employees will exit this week, and others will move into 'transitional positions' until the two companies are fully merged. Google also plans to sell a DoubleClick unit, Performics, which helps websites improve rankings on Google's search engine.
Google, the search giant under fire from various quarters over privacy issues, will later on Friday call for new international laws to protect personal information online.
With both the Nexus phones touted to be the first to carry Android's Marshmallow edition, the latest offerings from Google seem tempting, but surely, gone are the days of cheap Nexus phones, says Himanshu Juneja
Google, known more for its search engine and e-mail service, has bagged the first licence in the US to test self-driving cars along busy public roads in Nevada.
The Delhi high court on Thursday warned social networking site Facebook India and search engine Google India that websites can be "blocked" like in China if they fail to devise a mechanism to check and remove objectionable material from their web pages.
The net income of the search engine giant for the second quarter of 2011 stood at $2.51 billion.
Google Inc is currently in talks with a number of start-ups with unique and innovative business models, particularly in areas like voice and SMS-based advertising, to expand its presence in the country, an official close to the development said.\n\n
Officials have in the recent past expressed concern over Google Earth's display of pictures of key Indian installations.
"We are proud of what is happening in India and share Prime Minister's vision of digital India," Pichai said.
According to Indian government data, micro, small and medium enterprises accounts for about 45 per cent of the manufacturing output of the country and 40 per cent of the total exports.
According to Indian government data, micro, small and medium enterprises accounts for about 45 per cent of the manufacturing output of the country and 40 per cent of the total exports.
As a part of it's Zeitgeist survey for 2011, Google
Hijacking of browser settings tops the list of user complaints made to search engine Google as cyber criminals change them using malicious software.
Search engine giant Google celebrates the writings of the Argentine author who would have been 112 today.
Two Indian engineers, who missed chances twice to buy Google nearly 10 years ago, have now raked in funds for their own site to rival the search engine giant. The Indian duo have received funds worth $20 million from media and entertainment conglomerate Time Warner for their search site -- Kosmix.
Bing's monthly market share in the US declined to 8.51 per cent in September from 9.64 per cent in August, according to web analytics firm StatCounter.
Amid the raging controversy over content regulation online, Internet search giant Google India on Tuesday said it complies with the law of the land but will not remove any material just because it is controversial.
Whether it is Cupertino or Redmond or California, Artificial Intelligence is the new mantra for tech companies, and Google too is betting big on AI for its newest phones Pixel and Pixel XL.
Global software behemoth Microsoft on Wednesday said it aims to capture a respectable marketshare in the popular online search engine space currently dominated by Google and Yahoo.
Search engine Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 per cent stake in Time Warner's AOL Internet unit, strengthening the alliance between the two Internet powerbrokers and creating new hurdles for competitors such as Microsoft.
Security experts have discovered a malicious programe aimed at tricking users into clicking on phony search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites, a media report said on Saturday.
Internet search giant Google Inc has approved a handsome pay hike of 30 per cent and bonuses of 250 per cent of the base salary for its top executives starting next year.
Pakistan's new IT minister has warned that Google could be blocked in the country if the company fails to remove blasphemous and objectionable material from its video-sharing website YouTube.
India's mutual fund (MF) industry had barely any retail footprint when it completed 50 years in 2013. MFs had Rs 7 trillion in assets under management (AUM) in March 2013, of which around Rs 5 trillion was in institution-focused debt funds. By comparison, bank deposits in the country stood at Rs 67.5 trillion around the same time.
New Google CEO Sundar Pichai made ascent with low-key style and technical chops.
The smartphones are priced Rs 6,399 onwards.
Indians have always been there working for the company.
For the first time, a Google computer programme has beaten a human champion of the 2,500-year-old complex Chinese game of Go, in an event seen as a milestone for artificial intelligence.
Typically, the population thronging the newsroom of any newspaper, news portal or news channel is diverse. However, there is a tie that binds them together: Google, the world's most popular search engine.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had formed this government and taken oath as prime minister on October 21, 1943."
Internet search engine Google's decision to stop censoring search results on its sites in China has its own implication on that Communist nation, a top Obama administration official said
Has the Kargil victory, like so much else, fallen prey to petty, partisan politics?
The image has now been reappearing at the top of the results when the words "Michelle Obama" are put into Google's picture search engine.
The scheduled meeting of Internet search engine Google's founders and promoters with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was called off late on Monday.
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