Posts Tagged ‘google’

Local resident Jeffrey Knutson, 34, was all set to commit suicide this week, until he learned of Lindsay Lohan’s deal to pose nude for Playboy. “I had the pills on the table,” said Knutson. “I was literally doing the final edits on my suicide note in Google Docs.” According to Knutson, confirmation of Lohan’s photo [...]

Facebook is generating profits at a faster-than-expected rate, and will likely attract so many investors this year that it will have to disclose financial data similar to a publicly traded company by April 2012, according to a document distributed by Goldman Sachs. The move could set the stage for a much-anticipated Facebook initial public offering [...]

Saudi King Abdullah has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran’s nuclear program and China directed cyberattacks on the United States, according to a vast cache of U.S. diplomatic cables released on Sunday in an embarrassing leak that undermines U.S. diplomacy.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t reveal much about himself on his home page.   But spending 30 minutes on the Google search engine lets one discover that Schmidt, 50, was worth an estimated $1.5 billion last year. Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another [...]

In a recent edition of his daily segment “The Word,” Stephen Colbert hilariously skewered, by turns, “trickle-down economics,” the GOP stance on the deficit and the Bush-Era tax cuts, which may repealed by Congress (Hat tip to The Big Picture).

If you visit Google, type in 2204355 and hit the I’m Feeling Lucky button you’ll be presented with the odd video that is taking web users by storm.

Google is planning to launch an online music downloading service tied to its search engine, the Wall Street Journal reported, a move that would pit it against Apple and its popular iTunes site.

Pedestrian Sues Google Over Directions

Posted: 2nd June 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough
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A pedestrian injured by a motorist while following an online route has filed a lawsuit claiming Google Inc. supplied unsafe directions. Lauren Rosenberg filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking more than $100,000 in U.S. District Court in Utah. It also named a motorist she says hit her. Rosenberg used her phone in January to download [...]

Google Threatens to Exit China

Posted: 14th January 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Politics, Science | Technology
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It’s no secret that technological evolution has occurred at a frenetic pace. As technologies advance, they typically become cheaper, and in turn, their use becomes more widespread. But when it comes to those technologies that find their use in surveillance, tracking, and behavior control, it can be downright chilling how pervasive their use is in [...]

Come On People. What is a Browser?

Posted: 9th July 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Fifs
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People are soooo Dumb.