Archive for March 13th, 2009

Billionaire Google Co-Founder To Back Large Parkinson’s Study (Medical News Today)

Sergey Brin, the billionaire co-founder of internet giant Google, is pledging millions of dollars to a new genetic study of Parkinson's disease, after discovering last year that he had a 50-50 chance of developing the disease.

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Google to target ads based on online activity (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will begin to aim online ads at people based on their Web browsing history, joining an industry trend that has raised privacy concerns even as it makes product pitches more effective.

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Google Voice wants to manage your calls (Silicon.com)

Google unveiled a service called Google Voice on Thursday that indicates Google wants to do with your telephone communications what companies such as Yahoo! have done with email. Google Voice - the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007 - has the potential to make the search giant a middleman in people's telephone communications. With the service, people can ...

Friday, March 13th, 2009

AOL pinches Google sales boss (The Register)

Where do you go from Google? AOL has snaffled Google's US sales boss Tim Armstrong to be its chairman and chief executive.…

Friday, March 13th, 2009

AOL hires Google’s Tim Armstrong as new boss (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

AOL has hired Tim Armstrong, Google's president of the Americas operations, as its new chief executive.

Friday, March 13th, 2009