Archive for March 30th, 2009

Google caches payment card details for 19,000 brits (The Register)

Stolen information wants to be free, too More evidence of Google's success in organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible: Payment card details for 19,000 Brits were recently found hosted in the search engine's web cache.… Whitepaper - Accelerating virtualised environments

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Google launches free (legal) music search in China (The Register)

Music labels bang heads over Baidu Together with the world's four largest music labels, Google has formally launched an ad-based MP3 download service in China to combat easily accessible illegal downloads that have effectively killed the country's music industry online.… Whitepaper - The reference guide to data centre automation

Monday, March 30th, 2009

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-03-30 20:23 UPDATE 1-Associated Content names Google veteran as CEO (Interactive Investor)

NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - Associated Content, an online publisher whose investors include AOL chief and Google Inc veteran Tim Armstrong, has hired ex-Google advertising executive Patrick Keane as chief executive. Keane, who also served as chief marketing officer at CBS Corp's CBS Interactive unit, will be responsible for growing the company's profile, advertising sales and business ...

Monday, March 30th, 2009

UFOs captured on Google Street View hovering over East End bookies (Daily Telegraph)

A group of UFOs has been photographed hovering over London by Google Street View.

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Google cuts 200 global sales and marketing jobs (Guardian Unlimited)

About 100 of redundancies to come from Google's US operation Google is to lay off 200 staff from its global sales and marketing operation, proving even the search engine giant that dominates online advertising is not immune from the recession. About 100 of the job cuts will come from the US operation of Google, which has its global headquarters in California, according to a report in the New ...

Monday, March 30th, 2009