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Spain’s Passing of ‘Google Tax’ Law

Posted on October 31, 2014 by ramesh xavier

After more than a year in the works Spain has passed a law giving media organizations the power to charge Google for using their news content in its products, such as in Google News. The outraged internet giant said it

Android co-founder Andy Rubin to leave Google

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Google said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company. Rubin will start a company to support startups interested in building technology-hardware products, Google said in

YouTube To Offer A Paid, Ad-Free Subscriptions

Posted on October 30, 2014 by sherly

YouTube, the video-streaming service owned by Google (GOOG), is exploring whether to offer paid subscriptions that would let users watch content without advertising. “YouTube right now is ad-supported, which is great because it has enabled us to scale to a

Google developing pill that can detect cancer

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Google is already in our cars, our homes and on our wrists, but now it could soon be inside our bodies too. Google X developing digestible pill that contains nanotechnology that works alongside wearable device to spot early signs of

Free one-minute international calls on Google Hangouts through 2014

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

If you are a person, normally makes a lot of short calls overseas, there is a good news for you. Google had started offering the first minute of Hangouts calls to 25 countries at no charge. It only lasts through

Google offers free access to satellite images

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Tracking melting glaciers, deforestation or disappearing elephants has been made easier as Google has now allowed access to real time, updated satellite images through its Skybox programme. “The fresh satellite imagery will be contributed to projects that save lives, protect

YouTube plans to offer an ad-free subscription package

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

As we knows, the preroll ads on YouTube videos really annoys everyone, there’s some good news – the Google-owned service could one day let you pay to switch them off. At an event held in California yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan

What is Google Safe Browsing ?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Google Safe Browsing is a service provided by Google that provides lists of URLs for web resources that contain malware or phishing content. The Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox web browsers use the lists from the Google Safe

Google rolls out an invite system for Inbox

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Today, Google announced by way of its “Inbox by Gmail” Twitter account that each Inbox user will now receive three invites they can hand out to friends. Hilariously, the invite button is a golden ticket. If you aren’t seeing this

Google Unveils new App for Managing Gmail Inboxes

Posted on October 23, 2014 by sherly

Sorting through hundreds of emails and picking out what’s important can be a real pain, and now Google has built a tool to help fix that problem. Inbox, which launched Wednesday, offers a different way of handling the daily avalanche