To make sure their worker bees understand the value of teamwork, Google has hired a company beekeeper (found by using, what else, a Google search), who oversees employees as they harvest honey from hives on the sprawling Mountain View campus. The beekeeping club, which consists of four hives painted red, blue, yellow and green, is […]
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Google’s idea man. Craig Walker, the crafty upstart behind Google Voice, will be named Google Venture’s first “entrepreneur-in-residence,” The New York Times reports. Google bought Walker’s call routing service, GrandCentral, for a reported $45 million in 2007 and turned it into what is now Google Voice. Essentially, as the Times writes, Walker will now be
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Google Ventures has hired the man behind Google Voice to build a new startup reports The New York Times. Craig Walker will be Google Ventures’ first entrepreneur-in-residence. He co-founded GrandCentral, the service that became Google Voice, which gives people one phone number and routes their calls and voicemails to one place. Google bought GrandCentral for
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According to a story at Inc.com, Google is attempting to help small businesses convert shoppers browsing online into in-store buyers with its “Local Shopping” feature. The feature lets shoppers search for goods online then see who locally has the product in stock. Google started with big retailers such as Sears and Best Buy in March,
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Independent bookstores were battered first by discount chains like Barnes & Noble, then by superefficient Web retailers like Amazon.com. Now the electronic book age is dawning. The New York Times is reporting that with this latest challenge, these stores will soon have a new ally: the search giant Google. Later this summer, Google plans to
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Micaela Birmingham has gone from new mom to entrepreneur in less than a year. When she was given a stroller for her baby she was less than trilled with the lack of sun protection so she created her own and started selling it. Now this new business owner runs her entire business, CityMum, using free
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BetaNews reports that Google Voice, the popular and often controversial VoIP, voicemail, and messaging service from Mountain View search giant Google is now open for anyone in the U.S. to use.
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The New York Times is reporting that Google will soon unveil a one-click payment system for content called “Newspass.” According to the newspaper La Repubblica, Google, a brand built on free apps for consumers, is creating the infrastructure for a system that would allow publishers to charge readers for content. “Later this year, Google will
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According to Business Insider, Google is banning Microsoft Windows from internal use. Employees will be given the choice between Apple’s Mac OS and Linux. Adding insult to injury, Google is also publicly citing Windows security problems for the decision and blaming Windows vulnerabilities for the China hacking incident. So that’s 20,000+ Windows licenses that won’t
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Last week, the Google logo was turned into an actual game of Pac-Man and we all took breaks to play. The Rescue Time Blog took a hard look at Pac-Man D-Day and compared it with previous Fridays (before and after Google’s recent redesign) and found some noticeable differences. We took a random subset of our
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