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2 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

Google petitions FISA court for ability to disclose NSA user-data requests on First Amendment basis

Search giant Google petitioned the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday for permission to separately report the number of requests it receives from the court, such as requests tied to the National Security Agency's Prism program, claiming protections from the First Amendment right to free speech.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Verizon Communications, Telecom, Verizon, IT Services

4 hrs ago | Forbes.com

Why Google Is Crazy For Spending A Billion Dollars For Waze

Google recently paid more than a billion dollars to partner with Waze , a company unfamiliar to most people.

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Related Topix: Google, Enterprise Mobile, Startups, us Travel, North America Travel, Los Angeles Travel, Travel, California

7 hrs ago | WebProNews

Digg Reader Beta Launching June 26th, Will Be Free

Digg Reader, Digg's RSS reader replacement for Google Reader, has been in the works for the past three months - really ever since Google announced that they'd be shutting down their own reader on July 1st.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

11 hrs ago | Boston.com

farah stockmanBig Data's big deal

It used information from utility companies to identify which buildings lost power after a storm; data from sprinkler systems to find those most vulnerable to fire; geospatial data from sewers to figure out which restaurants were clogging pipes with illegally dumped grease.

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Related Topix: Widevine Technologies, Life, Food, Pizza, Opinion

15 hrs ago | The Guardian

Boot up: Project Loon, Feminist Taylor Swift, Puzzle & Dragons, Ford in-car interfaces and more

So, what's the reason for all this? Well, there are billions of people on Earth without Internet.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Clay, NY

Mon Jun 17, 2013

AdelaideNow...

Whistleblower Snowden in live web Q&A

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history, Edward Snowden.

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Related Topix: Widevine Technologies, Social Software, Dick Cheney

The Campbell Reporter

Google settles shareholder lawsuit, stock split on the way

Google has resolved a shareholder lawsuit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the Internet search leader to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, ITA Software, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, AdMob

The Guardian

Google Glass does have a diversity problem. Here's why it matters

It's hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for Dean Johnson. Like other applicants to Google's #ifihadglass scheme providing early access to its Glass eyewear, he was eager to test out the new gadget, and delighted when he was selected to take part.

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KYTX-TV News

Longview man arrested for indecency with a child

A science-fiction-style project -- which could bring internet access to five billion people across the planet -- is being tested out in New Zealand.

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Related Topix: Longview, TX, ITA Software, Media, Television, Showtime Networks

Insider Monkey

Google Inc (GOOG) Continues Effort Against This Growing Problem

When most people think about Google Inc the first thing that comes to mind is its search engine dominance.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, ITA Software, Enterprise Mobile, Widevine Technologies, AdMob

The Hartford Courant

Reader Submitted: Local Man Lands Job At Google

Lemu K. Coker, age 31, was born in Hartford and was raised in the Blue Hills section of the city.

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Related Topix: Hartford, CT, Blue Hills, CT, University of Connecticut, Marketing, Bloomfield, CT

Independent.ie

Google begins internet trial using balloons

Google has launched a network of balloons over the southern hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable internet access to the world's most remote regions, the company said.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Social Software

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Examiner.com

MoceanMobile releases unique, powerful tool in Mobile Advertising and Analysis.

If you have been thinking about implementing Mobile Marketing into your brand 's Marketing Campaigns, or already have, check this out: Mobile Advertising technology leader, Mocean Mobile has released Mocean for Advertisers.

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Related Topix: Mobile Marketing, Marketing, Advertising, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Laptops/Notebooks

Examiner.com

Pakistan executes homosexuals, but leads world in gay Google searches

The South Central Asian nation of Pakistan may be a bit schizophrenic when it comes to active homosexuals, executing those drug before their increasingly Islamic-based court system, but leading the globe in gay Google searches, as reported by the New York Post on June 14, 2013.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, World News, Pakistan, Asia, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

KXXV-TV Waco

Pope blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidsons

Harley Davidson motorcycles riders park their motorcycles in Via della Conciliazione leading to the Vatican, seen at top, as they wait for Pope Francis to drive by to bless them ahead of mass in St. A group of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia are preparing to smile and strut their way toward the 62th Miss USA ... (more)

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Related Topix: Motorcycles, Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, Harley Davidson, Automakers, Associated Press, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire

Asbury Park Press

Does Google want to conquer the world?

A recent Associated Press-WE tv poll found more than 8 in 10 men said they have always wanted to be... In this May 2013 photo provided by Google, Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation collects seashore imagery with the Street View Trekker at the Los Humedales wetland area on Isabela Island in the Galapagos.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Associated Press, World News, Ecuador, Computers

KXXV-TV Waco

Death toll in SW Pakistan attacks increases to 24

A solar-powered plane bidding to fly across the U.S. has landed at Dulles International Airport near the nation's capital, with one leg to New York left.

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Related Topix: Widevine Technologies, Associated Press, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire, Colorado Springs, CO

The Big Apple

Lobsterrific

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple , a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano.

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Related Topix: New York, NY, Manhattan, NY, Recipes

Sat Jun 15, 2013

AmericanBankingNews.com

AllThingsD Headlines - Google, Candy Crush, Facebook, Nokia, Symantec

Google's Plan to Use Balloons to Blanket the World in Bandwidth. Console Makers at E3 Weigh the Impact of Casual, Mobile Games.

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Related Topix: Nokia

The Province

Google launching Internet-beaming balloons to bring the Web to remote corners of the earth

Two years after a mob burned her car at the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver, Sarah Edmondson still gets emotional about the mentality of the people who would resort to such an act.

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Related Topix: Recipes

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