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Google Buying a Building in Manhattan

Google is buying a 2.9 million square foot building at New York’s 111 Eighth Avenue. The building covers a city block between 15th and 16th Streets from 8 to 7 Avenues. The value of the place is about $1.9 billion. The building was originally built as the Port Authority Commerce Building in 1932, and it

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Why Groupon rejected Google’s $6 billion offer?

The reason is that Groupon brings every year a revenue of $2 billion. There are also reports which predict that the website could file to go public next year.

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eBay buys Milo.com

eBay is acquiring a hopping search engine Milo.com for $75 million. The interesting fact in the story is that Milo CEO Jack Abraham is only 24 years old.

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Facebook dominates the Internet

In March 2010 the market share of visits to Facebook.com surpassed Google.com. Facebook.com is constantly growing and today nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US take place on Facebook.com. According to weblogs.hitwise.com the market share of page views for Facebook.com is about 24% and it is almost4 times the volume of the 2nd

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Surprise Cash Bonus for Google’s employees

All of Google’s employees received $1,000 cash holiday bonuses. On top of that Google offers 2011 salary increases of at least 10%. By this gesture, Google shows that the company is a great place to work. The company’s financial performance continues to be very good and tries to keep its employee happy. Especially that recently

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Google is suing the United States government

Google claims that its products were excluded from a $58m deal to restore e-mail systems at the Department of the Interior. Google declares that the terms of the 5-year contract favor Microsoft. Google wanted to offer its Google Apps software for that contract, but at the Department of the Interior required to use only Microsoft’s

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Google represents 6.4% of all Internet traffic

According to the newest data from a network security firm Arbor Networks “Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic around the world.”. It includes all websites owned by Google: Google.com, YouTube.com, GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs etc.

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Google tests cars that can drive themselves

The first test drives took place in California, the self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles in total. Google’s automated cars uses video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder which allows to detect traffic. The car has also constant access to detailed maps, so it can navigate the road. Google claims the new

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Goo.gl, URL Shortener from Google

Google’s URL shortener Goo.gl has been officially launched. Google claims that Goo.gl is the fastest and most robust URL shortener on the market.

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WebP

Engineers at Google are working on a new image format for the Web. WebP was introduced as a replacement for JPEG. Google promises that the new format will significantly reduce the byte size of photos (by even 39%), while preserving quality and resolution of JPEG. Of course WebP images can’t be viewed yet in any

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