
Studies Show Google Enhanced Campaigns Fuel AdWords CPC Rise
Early reports from Adobe and iProspect seem to show the higher CPC theory bearing out. Adobe found CPCs rose 6 percent across devices in...

Europeans Take New Look At Google’s Android Licensing Practices
reporting that Google is now “facing an investigation by European authorities into allegations that it supported the leading Android...

UK Government Report: Google’s Tax Position “Deeply Unconvincing”
reported yesterday that a UK Parliamentary Committee found, essentially, Google had improperly avoided paying taxes in the UK by routing...

Unboxing Google Engage
While the agency world’s demise has been the subject of quite a bit of opinion over the years, it seems Google is embracing the fact that...

Google’s “X Phone” Is Coming, So Are Nexus-Like Versions Of HTC One And Galaxy S4
yet to generate any ROI for Mountain View. Motorola’s patent portfolio, the reason most-often cited as the driver of the acquisition, has...

Google Stands In For “The Emerald City” In The Internship Movie
The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (opening June 7), where they and their team of Google summer interns try to sell a...

EU-Google “Rival Links” Antitrust Settlement Provision Creates New Controversy
settlement with the company earlier this year. It’s a highly problematic issue from a legal standpoint but it’s the one Google’s critics...

Microsoft, Google To Build New Windows Phone YouTube App Together
The two companies issued a statement today, two days after the deadline that Google had given Microsoft to remove the previous app from...

More Antritrust Pain For Google: FTC To Probe Display Ads Biz
Bloomberg, Google is facing yet another antitrust headache at the hands of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency is fresh off...

Apple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claims
according to Foss Patents, which also reports that Apple asserts Google Now infringes two patents associated with Siri. Overall, there...

Google Sunsets Google Checkout To Put Focus On Google Wallet
The news comes a week after Google announced several new features for the Google Wallet platform. The new Instant Buy Android API is...

Two New Shoes Drop On Google: UK Tax Whistleblower And Canadian Antitrust Action
Financial Post, the country’s Competition Bureau is preparing to launch a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s Canadian business...

Microsoft Slams Google In Nasty, Internal Parody Of Chrome Ad
It’s a fake Chrome ad that’s part of Microsoft’s ongoing “Scroogled” campaign against Google, but it was supposed to remain internal. It...

Microsoft To YouTube: Where’s That Interoperability Larry Page Was Talking About?
As The Verge reported today, Google sent Microsoft a cease-and-desist letter demanding that Microsoft remove the YouTube app from its...

App Downloads: Apple Reaches 50 Billion, Google Play 48 Billion
Later in the day at roughly 5 pm US Eastern time, Apple said that its App Store saw its 50 billionth app download. This had been long...

Schmidt: Google Has More Respect For “Real World” Concerns, One Reason Why Google Glass
Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen Whereas the Google of old might just throw products “over the wall” and not think much about their real world...

Microsoft Calls On “SNL” Alum Schneider To Bash Google Docs
In a new series of ads, Microsoft is trying to cast doubt on the reliability and productivity of Google Docs. The spots featuring...

Study Finds Only 35% Of Google Products Have Closed Throughout Google’s History
Google Reader earlier this year led many users to wonder what products will end up on the chopping block next. Thanks to a study...

Does Buying Motorola Emerge As A $12.5 Billion Mistake For Google?
Google bought Motorola Mobility in late 2011 for its patent portfolio. The company spent $12.5 billion, Google’s largest acquisition by...
























