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A pro-privacy pressure group has said that it plans to issue a legal challenge in the UK courts to Google over the company’s interception of private data gathered by its Street View vehicles. Privacy International has taken the action after … Continue reading
UK internet users have visited more social networking sites than search engines in one month than ever before. Data released by research firm Hitwise shows that visits to social networks accounted for 11.88 per cent of all UK internet visits in … Continue reading
Google’s Chrome browser continued to make inroads into its rivals’ share of worldwide browser usage in May, new statistics show. Chrome rose 0.3 percentage points to take seven per cent of the market, said Net Applications, which monitors browser usage … Continue reading
A dispute in Australia between members of the public and photographers gathering data for Google’s Street View service has been referred to the country’s police, the country’s Attorney General (senior law officer) has said. Robert McLelland told journalists ahead of … Continue reading
The acquisition of technology start-up Invite Media by Google has begun to draw criticism from online display advertising firms. The US search firm made the official announcement on Thursday, saying it had purchased the New York and Philadelphia-based company which … Continue reading
Google’s Chrome internet browser has managed to increase its share of the global market to over seven per cent, according to data from Net Applications. The research company said Chrome increased its share from 6.73 per cent in April 2010 … Continue reading
US search firm Google is phasing out the use of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, due to security concerns. According to a report by The Telegraph, the company is now asking new employees to choose between Apple’s OS X system or … Continue reading
Google is expected to release details of its plans for a compromise with EU data protection bodies this week. The American company has admitted it made a software coding mistake in 2006 and this led to its Street View photography … Continue reading
Google can expect to see a rise in paid search advertising revenues from China, despite its public falling out with the government, according to US research firm Covario. The company said in spite of the fracas which has led to … Continue reading
Search giant Google has officially confirmed the completion of a deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob. The US company announced the acquisition of AdMob for a reported $750m in November last year. However, in April it emerged that lawyers … Continue reading