Sunday, February 20, 2011

Weekly News Roundup: Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)

Monday 14 February

It has been reported that J.C Penney has gamed Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) rankings.
The New York Times noted the significant changes in the rankings of J.C Penney on multiple searches.

Although the company has not taken any actions for a better ranking, it agreed that it had hired a private firm for search engine optimization.

The results show that some potentially unethical tricks have been used by the firm in order to boost the company’s rankings in Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) search results.

Tuesday 15 February

The CEO of micro-blogging network Twitter has confirmed that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s takeover news is just a rumor.
If it happened, it would be another revolution in the tech world, however it seems that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s Twitter acquisition is just a rumor. Twitter’s CEO put an end to the speculations saying that the ‘talks’ with Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) were just a rumor.

“I don’t know where these things come from,” he said.

But make no mistake, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is working hard to dominate the social networking market, and if they do not do it by acquisition then they have made clear their intentions to develop their own products.

Wednesday 16 February

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG)’s CEO has said that smart phones will one day outperform PCs.
Eric Schmidt, the Chief Executive Officer at Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), said in a statement that mobile phones will become the new PC.

“Smartphones surpassed PC sales last week. By the way, PCs are not catching up. Smartphones are the future of games, productivity, apps, everything we think about. … You have the phone, the new PC, if you will.” Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO said.

Thursday 17 February

One of the many Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) search scientists has refuted antitrust claims.
While attending an interview, Amit Singhal, a fellow and search scientist at Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), refuted the antitrust claims.

The antitrust issues, which had initiated debates, was one of the questions many of the journalists present were keen to ask.

He replied to the question saying, “I do not worry about that at all. My duty is to our users and that’s what keeps me so excited. The possibilities are endless, and as a scientist, as a search engineer, I look forward to all the great things we’ll do in search in the years to come.”

Friday 18 February

It has been rumored that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is readying an iTunes competitor.
Just after the announcement regarding One Pass subscription payment service, another rumor is shaking tech world, an iTunes competitor from the search engine giant.

According to reports, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will launch a music service system to go with their Honeycomb Android platform.

Although executives from some rivals have already commented on the reports, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has not yet made any official statement on it.

We will continue checking the Google Inc. stock level for changes over the next couple of weeks.

Source: http://www.emoneydaily.com/

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