Google is buying a 2.9 million square foot building at New York’s 111 Eighth Avenue. The building covers a city block between 15th and 16th Streets from 8 to 7 Avenues. The value of the place is about $1.9 billion. The building was originally built as the Port Authority Commerce Building in 1932, and it
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The reason is that Groupon brings every year a revenue of $2 billion. There are also reports which predict that the website could file to go public next year.
eBay is acquiring a hopping search engine Milo.com for $75 million. The interesting fact in the story is that Milo CEO Jack Abraham is only 24 years old.
In March 2010 the market share of visits to Facebook.com surpassed Google.com. Facebook.com is constantly growing and today nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US take place on Facebook.com. According to weblogs.hitwise.com the market share of page views for Facebook.com is about 24% and it is almost4 times the volume of the 2nd
All of Google’s employees received $1,000 cash holiday bonuses. On top of that Google offers 2011 salary increases of at least 10%. By this gesture, Google shows that the company is a great place to work. The company’s financial performance continues to be very good and tries to keep its employee happy. Especially that recently
Google claims that its products were excluded from a $58m deal to restore e-mail systems at the Department of the Interior. Google declares that the terms of the 5-year contract favor Microsoft. Google wanted to offer its Google Apps software for that contract, but at the Department of the Interior required to use only Microsoft’s
According to the newest data from a network security firm Arbor Networks “Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic around the world.”. It includes all websites owned by Google: Google.com, YouTube.com, GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs etc.
The first test drives took place in California, the self-driving cars have logged over 140,000 miles in total. Google’s automated cars uses video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder which allows to detect traffic. The car has also constant access to detailed maps, so it can navigate the road. Google claims the new
Google’s URL shortener Goo.gl has been officially launched. Google claims that Goo.gl is the fastest and most robust URL shortener on the market.
Engineers at Google are working on a new image format for the Web. WebP was introduced as a replacement for JPEG. Google promises that the new format will significantly reduce the byte size of photos (by even 39%), while preserving quality and resolution of JPEG. Of course WebP images can’t be viewed yet in any
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