Fahad HMay 31, 20121 min readGoogle Applies For .google, .docs, .youtube & Reportedly More Than 50 New Domain TLDsThe company has confirmed its participation in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) application process for...
Fahad HMay 22, 20122 min readGoogle’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility Closes, What Now?now part of Google. European and US approvals happened some time ago. The deal is worth $12.5 billion — Google’s largest acquisition by...
Fahad HMay 14, 20122 min readGoogle Wins 750+ Domains From Cybersquatter Who Wants ‘Google’ Trademark CanceledIn one of its legal filings, Google called it “one of the most aggressive campaigns of domain name infringement that [Google] has...
Fahad HMay 7, 20122 min readOracle vs Google Split Decision: Jury Finds Copyright Infringement But Deadlocks On “Fair Use&published reports, a federal jury earlier today delivered a mixed result in Oracle v. Google. The jury found that Google had in fact...
Fahad HMay 7, 20122 min readKeeping The Lawyers Busy: Google Now Faces Antitrust Investigation In Indiaaccording to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The Competition Commission of India said that although it’s initially focused on AdWords the...
Fahad HMay 5, 20121 min readJudge Says Android Was A Big Money Loser In 2010Reuters, Judge William Alsup commented on otherwise sealed financial documents submitted by Google to the court. “That adds up to a big...
Fahad HMay 1, 20122 min readIdentity Of “Wi-Spy” Google Engineer Revealed In Scandal That Won’t Go Awayan unredacted copy of the recent FCC report on the matter has done the opposite. It showed that the capture of a broad array of “consumer...
Fahad HApr 27, 20121 min readUS FTC Hires Formidable Outside Litigator For Possible Antitrust Case Against GoogleYesterday it was reported that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hired an outside prosecutor to potentially bring an antitrust case...
Fahad HApr 25, 20122 min readStudy: For Display Ads Clicks Have “Nearly Zero” Correlation With ConversionAnother study supporting that argument, from comScore and Pretarget, argues that “ad viewability and hover time are more strongly...
Fahad HApr 24, 20123 min readThe “Storage Wars” Begin As Google Drive Finally Arrivesyears of speculation and a few weeks of intense anticipation, Google Drive has arrived. Google Docs is being folded into the new service....
Fahad HApr 5, 20123 min readMake Love, Not Evil — The New Google Motto?Google is well-known for its “Don’t Be Evil” motto, one that has lately somewhat plagued the company as it has come under fire over...
Fahad HApr 5, 20127 min readLarry Page Gives An “Update” After His First Year As CEOposted an update about how his first year as Google’s CEO has been. Google is more focused, uses Google+ as a way to unite its various...
Fahad HApr 5, 20125 min readSurvey: Nearly 80% Trust Google As Much Or More Than A Year AgoGoogle has come under fire over the past year from anti-trust issues to privacy questions. But has this questioning by the mainstream...
Fahad HMar 29, 20124 min readNo, Google Doesn’t Make Four Times More Off The iPhone Vs. Androidsparked headlines that the iPhone is more a cash cow for Google than its own mobile platform. But that’s making a lot of assumptions that...
Fahad HMar 27, 20122 min readReport: Google Spent $213M Advertising Itself In 2011, Including $70M On TV AdsAccording to a Wall Street Journal article, which cites data from Kantar Media, Google spent some $70 million dollars on TV ads last year...
Fahad HMar 19, 20123 min readGoogle, Dell Prepare Tablet Counterattack As Apple Announces Three-Million iPad WeekendiPad launch day: Where are all the sell-outs? On a conference call this morning about Apple’s just-announced stock dividend, Apple CEO...
Fahad HMar 5, 20122 min readInept Lobbying By Anti-Google Front Group Does More Harm Than Good For Microsoftblogged about an experience of attending a seminar on privacy at the European Parliament in Brussels. The seminar was put on...
Fahad HMar 2, 20122 min readFoursquare Breaks Up With Google Maps, Is It The Beginning Of A Trend?Google’s early API, consumer popularity and easy (read: free) licensing terms fueled rapid adoption of Google Maps by third party...
Fahad HFeb 27, 20123 min readGoogle’s Smartphone Dominance, Tablet Weakness And Surprising Mobile Ad NumbersMobile World Congress is happening in Barcelona, Spain this week. I’d probably be attending but for SMX West starting tomorrow in San...
Fahad HFeb 27, 20126 min readOn Google & Being “Evil”column yesterday. True enough, I said that. But I wanted to provide some further context about my comments as well as the...
