Google has announced it will unify the terms of service and privacy policies of all its online products, aiming to make it easier to comprehend for Google’s customers. The new policy would also allow Google to share data across its products more seamlessly, as well as enabling its services to link data for a more personalized service. In a much simpler explanation, the habits of a user on one Google service ...

Twitter has posted an official statement saying Google’s changes would make it more difficult for consumers to find breaking news often shared by Twitter users. “As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter. As a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant (search) results,” the company said. The statement continued: “We’re concerned that ...

Google is not stopping in letting your know it has a social networking venture called Google+. It had TV ads, integrated G Plus in Google’s many services, even provided an automatic account for G+ for anyone using Gmail. Now, Google has integrated Google+ to its core product: the search engine. Google has updated its Google.com search engine, which they call “Search Plus Your World,” to include...

CNET has reported that Korean Fair Trade Commission is fining Google for allegedly obstruction an investigation regarding the search engine giant’s business practices. Officials from the commission raided Google’s offices in Seoul last September 2011. According to Kim Dong-soo, chairman of the South Korean antitrust commission, Google hampered the investigation by allegedly deleting vital files from co...

The patent wars between companies are getting more and more interesting when it comes to the industry giants in the tech world. On the online and mobile front, the practice of acquiring an arsenal of patents has been more active than ever. These patents serve as a means to either protect or even mount patent litigation on other companies, usually competitors on the same market. They become weapons to either attack...

After quite some time of being in some sort of limbo, the Google –Mozilla partnership is still alive and well. Google has recently renewed its online search partnership deal with Mozilla Firefox. This was recently announced by Mozilla and said that the new deal is good for another three years in which Google will still be the default search engine for the Firefox browser. Although the details of the three-year d...

While Google may have been quite successful with its foray in the smartphone market with its Android OS for smartphones, But it has not quite been successful in another rapidly growing device market, that of the tablet PC’s. While there have been quite a number of tablets introduced in the market that runs on Android, they all belong to partner manufacturers of Google. And unfortunately, not of them so far h...

Google is still on a run in trying to gobble up companies that it thinks might help improve its stature in tech circles even better. As it recently has spread its reach into other tech fields other than just online search, its foray into the mobile industry has gained momentum considerably thanks to its popular Android open source mobile OS platform. But Google is trying to go further by acquiring companies like C...

Google has done it again. The online search giant has done some off-season spring cleaning by getting rid of some of its underperforming online services. According to a blog post, Google has announced that it is on the way of shutting down some of its services like Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol and Google Friend Connect, just to name a few. Google Gears is a browser extension that allows users to create offline ...

Google has been making cuts on services it has deemed beyond its focus and its latest move may anger a section of users. The company has announced that it will cut off its support of the Gmail application for BlackBerry Phones beginning November 22. Although current BB users who have installed the app would be able to continue to use it for a lifetime, the app will no longer be supported by Google or available fo...