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Google, Facebook vying for Waze?

The rumor du jour on the Interwebs is that Google may be interested in buying Waze, the crowd-sourced traffic information app for smartphones, following earlier reports that Facebook was in talks over a possible $1 billion bid for the service. Nobody’s Read More →

Who are the world’s most powerful women?

Nearly a dozen tech executives made Forbes magazine’s new list of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,” an annual ranking based on somewhat subjective assessments of the “money, media presence and impact” wielded by various female celebrities, politicians and business Read More →

Whistleblower emerges amid Google’s U.K. tax woes

A report published by the Sunday Times sheds light on the tone of British lawmakers' grilling of Google over taxes last week: A former Google executive has turned whistleblower, showing the newspaper evidence he says proves that "what Read More →

Google I/Oh… about your privacy…

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: We trade our privacy for convenience — and some are more comfortable with that than others. The day after Google's I/O developers conference where it unveiled many a new or enhanced Read More →

Larry Page on technology, society and Burning Man

Google CEO Larry Page doesn’t give a lot of speeches, and his vocal cord problems are now well-known.  So it was both surprising and rare for him to take the stage at the company’s I/O software conference this week and Read More →

Google brings Nexus ‘experience’ to unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4

Sure, Google is rolling out big numbers and the expected streaming music service. (See the Merc's live blog.) But a tweet by the Merc's Brandon Bailey from the I/O conference today was particularly intriguing: "Google selling unlocked Read More →
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