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  1. 22 Facebook PR Secrets Every Community Manager Should Know

    Think USA Today rather than New York Times. Social PR lessons to be learned for Facebook community managers and brands can come from some not so recent, but not so distant Internet entrepreneurs like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, author of the book...

  2. Google Pays $7 Million to Settle Street View Snooping Case

    The following states will split the cash evenly ($192,000): Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi...

  3. Google Passes Microsoft to Become 2nd Largest Tech Company

    Google's market valuation rose 1 percent to $761.78 at the close of the stock market in New York on Monday, showing a market capitalization of approximately $249.9 billion, according to Bloomberg. Google has surpassed Microsoft, becoming the world...

  4. Vitaly Borker Gets 4 Years for Threats, Terror Used to Boost Google Rankings

    Borker told the New York Times in 2010 that negative publicity had vaulted his site to the top of Google’s organic rankings. Exasperated, she took her complaint to his banks, police, her credit card company, IC3, and even the New York state...

  5. Google Buys Frommer’s Travel Guides in Yet Another Contested Move as a Content Publisher

    The New York Times published previously unpublished quotes from Eric Schmidt, who was CEO at the time he is reported to have given the interview in 2010. Wiley’s announcement of the sale read, “On August 10, 2012, Wiley entered into a definitive...

  6. New York Times to Sell About.com: Google to Blame?

    It was announced on Aug 8 that the New York Times is in talks to sell its Internet property About.com. The New York Times acquired About.com in 2005 for $410 million dollars from Primedia Inc. News of this sale propelled New York Times' stock to...

  7. 4th of July Google Doodle Was Made For You and Me

    Last year's July 4 Google Doodle captured many parts of the country, from sea to shining sea, starting with Hawaii and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on the West Coast, all the way to fireworks lighting up the sky behind the Statue of...

  8. Google Not Responsible for Policing YouTube Content: French Court

    Google recently commissioned a top first amendment rights academic to make their case that they are a media outlet, much like the New York Times, and are therefore protected by freedom of speech law. Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube...

  9. Marissa Mayer Nominated to Walmart Board of Directors

    She also serves on other boards – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – and is one of the most public representatives of the Mountain View-based company.

  10. Google’s Rosetta Stone AdWords Woes Continue as Case Reopened

    On Google’s October 2010 settlement of their AdWords dispute with French authorities over their practice of blocking specific advertisers from buying sponsored links, the New York Times had reported that Google "also agreed to apply 'the principle...

  11. Google April Fools' Day Pranks 2012: 8-Bit Maps, Chrome Multitask Mode & More!

    The Statue of Liberty in New York City For Google, April Fools' Day is the annual launch day for a slew of gag products and hoax services you’ll likely never see in real life. Google’s practical jokes began a day early in 2012, with 8-Bit Google...

  12. 2012 Oscar Predictions From Google & Yahoo

    However, while Mara rules in Los Angeles, Meryl Streep wins on searches in New York City. Well, Google looked back at search trends leading up to the two previous Academy Awards shows and discovered that it wasn’t the most searched for film that...

  13. Super Bowl Stat Time: Wolfram|Alpha Offers Stats Guide for Football Junkies

    If you want Super Bowl stats, the self-described computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha is the place to break down all the key Super Bowl 46 numbers before the New England Patriots and New York Giants game kicks off tomorrow night.