Search engine giant Google at one time considered purchasing a newspaper, according to a new interview with Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google. Speaking with the Financial Times, Schmidt admitted that his company had considered throwing its hat into the newspaper ring. Ultimately, the company demurred on any type of purchase, deciding it wouldn’t be right to cross the line… [read more]
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From Examiner.com Now that every celebrity is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon even when they brag they don’t do email. Looking at you Ellen Degeneres @TheEllenShow. Ellen just shouts over to an assistant at a laptop and dictates her tweets… [read more]
From InformationWeek In a move to connect the emerging smart energy grid with the Internet,Google on Wednesday announced partnerships with eight national and international energy companies to allow consumers to access data about their energy usage through Google’s PowerMeter… [read more]
From ArsTechnica According to a new well-founded rumor, Microsoft will be debuting Kumo, an upgrade to Live Search that the software giant’s own employees have been testing internally for at least two months, at D: All Things Digital. Unsurprisingly, the rumor comes straight from the horse’s mouth. I guess they just couldn’t keep it to themselves any longer: “Sources say the company is expected to demonstrate… [read more]
From Gmail Blog Ever since we launched Google Calendar, people in our forum have been pretty vocal about a missing piece — an integrated task list. “To-do would be tooo-rific,” “I really, really, really need to use a to-do list,” and my favorite: “I’ll join your team to help you get it done!” The rumble turned into a roar a few months ago when we launched Tasks in Gmail Labs. Now we’ve integrated Tasks into Google Calendar as well…[read more]
From TechCrunch Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google did a double header interview from the Google Zeitgeist conference just outside of London today. But the real question on our lips was what is Google going to do about the astounding buzz around realtime search and Twitter? During a press conference… [read more]
From AppleInsider While all eyes are on Apple’s annual developers conference as a likely forum for new iPhone hardware announcements, one Wall Street analyst is advising clients that better bets may be placed on an event a few weeks later that may also mark the return of Steve Jobs… [read more]
By Boston.com Have you ever been lying on your leather couch, gobbling a pizza in front of your flat screen TV, and found yourself watching one of those ads asking you to help starving children in Africa who live on less than $2 day? The message is clear: a person can’t possibly survive on that, not without your donation. But nearly half the world’s population – some 2.5 billion people – somehow gets by on less… [read more]
From WSJ It’s one of the great mysteries of the business world: How much is Donald Trump really worth? The world famous real-estate developer and television personality has consistently said it’s in the billions. A 2005 book citing anonymous sources said it was between $150 million and $250 million. Mr. Trump sued the writer for defamation. He alleged damage to his… [read more] 
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