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Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath

Google Course

At a company known for a hard-driving culture, a seven-week course in mindfulness techniques is giving employees a better way to cope... Mr. Tan’s first book, “Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace),” is out this month, with a foreword by his friend and S.I.Y. collaborator Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence.” In addition to its United States publication by HarperOne, the book is to be published in 17 markets worldwide, from South Korea to Brazil to Slovenia.

 

'Zerg rush' chews up Google search

Zerg Rush

Feeling besieged by pesky little problems today? You might want to be careful with your Google searches.

 

Google's ex-CEO gets $101M pay package in new job

Eric Schmidt

Shifting from Google's CEO to executive chairman proved to be lucrative career move for Eric Schmidt....

 

FCC fines Google for hindering probe into street-mapping program

Google

The agency imposes a $25,000 penalty after the tech giant 'apparently willfully and repeatedly violated commission orders' during its data-collection investigation into Google Street View.

 

Google plans stock split; results spur relief

Google

Google Inc announced a stock split designed to preserve the control of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin over the No. 1 Web search engine, as it posted revenue in line with estimates.

 

In Google's Earnings, All Eyes on 'Costs Per Click'

Google, of Mountain View, Calif., issued a fourth-quarter report in January that largely fell flat on Wall Street, as profit came in well below expectations. During a subsequent conference call, executives were peppered with questions about an 8% decline in prices paid by advertisers during the period every time a user clicked on their ads.

 

Project glasses by Google: Next big hit or fail? [Analysis]

This spectacle is a revolutionary invention by Google to bring a new change in human’s ordinary life. It is basically said to be a hands-free computer. But after all, will it be a big hit or fail?

 

Google CEO reflects on past year in rare dispatch

Google co-founder Larry Page has ruminated about his past year as CEO and mused about the challenges ahead in an unusual dispatch that he shared Thursday.

 

Google Ordered By Court to Suspend Autocomplete

Google Autocomplete

A Tokyo court has ordered that Google suspend its autocomplete search function after a Japanese man claimed it violated his privacy and cost him his job. The case is a first involving the search function, which instantly suggests words or phrases a person may want to look for before the user has finished typing. So far, Google, headquartered in California, has refused to halt the feature, saying it will not be regulated by Japanese law and did not violate any privacy policies, according to the Kyodo news agency.

 

Many Sites Chart a New Course as Google Expands Fees

When Google included smaller Web sites in the fees it charges to incorporate its maps online, many of them rebelled.

 

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