Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault. ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to Naoki Hiroshima, his Twitter handle @N and his Go Daddy account. The story has been covered inside the domain world and out and now comes an acknowledgement from Go Daddy and a denial from Paypal. — GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of … [Read more...]
Google Finally Agree To Its 1st Stock Spilt
Google (GOOG) announced a stock split by creating "Class C" shares which will carry no voting power. The stock split which is Google's 1st, is set for April 2nd. One share of C stock will be distributed for each share of voting Class A stock owned as of March 27. Initially, the value of the current stock will be divided equally between the two types of shares. But they will then trade … [Read more...]
Google Reports: Paid Clicks Up 31%; Cost Per Click Down 11%
Google reported its financial results for the quarter ending December 31, 2013 after the market closed today Google's consolidated net income was $3.38 billion, or $9.90 per share, compared to $2.89 billion, or $8.62 per share, in the year-ago period. Excluding certain items, Google said it earned $12.01 per share. Google's consolidated revenue, rose to $16.86 billion from $14.42 billion … [Read more...]
OMGChrome.com Takes A look at what .chrome might look like
Omg Chrome did a piece on how Google will use dot chrome. Of course Chrome is ubiquitous all throughout the Google landscape, from netbooks, to the most popular web browser on the planet, to ChromeCast for your tv. There were a couple Chrome related news items today, Google is offering a $2.7 million bounty for cracking ChromeOS Forbes is out with a story on an add on that turns your … [Read more...]
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Firm Deep Mind
Google is acquiring Deep Mind for reportedly $400 million although some are reporting it may have been as high as $500 million. Deep Mind is involved in the field of artificial intelligence. The news came out on a Sunday and many publications are covering the story. Recode.net posted that, DeepMind has only a landing page for a website where it describes its business as building learning … [Read more...]
Google Rolls Out a Few New Features
Here are a few new features Google is rolling out. Stan Schroeder at Mashable covered that now there is a new feature to Google search that will provide more info. You can now find out more about every search result by clicking on the page name next to the actual link. This apparently only works for sites that are very well known and will not be there for just any website. Matt McGee … [Read more...]
Google Unveiled Smart Contact Lens, we look at who owns the best domain names
A week ago Google introduced their smart contact lens project. Google wrote on its blog in a post which has over 5800 comments: We’re now testing a smart contact lens that’s built to measure glucose levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniaturized glucose sensor that are embedded between two layers of soft contact lens material. We’re testing prototypes that can generate a reading … [Read more...]