Why European Parliament Is Picking a Fight With Google (video)

Thursday the European Parliament voted  in favor of breaking up Google (the vote is not binding). The world's largest search engine is accused of squeezing out its competitors. Bloomberg spoke with a legal expert about what's driving this action. (Source: Bloomberg 11/26) 

European parliament votes | Ars Technica: " Although the vote is non-binding, it's a definite setback for the company...."


India Today
International Business|In Symbolic Vote, EU Parliament Passes Measure to Break Up Google
New York Times
A breakup of Google in Europe will almost certainly not happen, legal .... Google in Europe are major American technology companies like Microsoft ...
European Parliament Votes To Break Up Google - Forbes
European Parliament Approves Google Breakup Resolution - Wall Street Journal
European Parliament Backs Investigation To Split Google Search From Its Other Businesses - TechCrunch


Wall Street Journal
EU Says Google Should Extend 'Right to Be Forgotten' to '.com' Websites
Wall Street Journal
In a new set of guidelines agreed upon in Brussels on Wednesday, the body representing the European Union's 28 national privacy regulators said search engines should apply the bloc's new right to be forgotten to all of their websites—in particular .com ...

New York Times
Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization
New York Times
Hovering above the destruction in Sunset Overdrive, set in a city of murderous creatures....

NDTV
Sony settles with FTC on allegedly misleading PlayStation tweets
Los Angeles Times
Sony's PlayStation Vita may not have been so game-changing after all. Sony settled with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday over charges that it deceived customers in 2011 about the "game changing" advanced technology on the handheld gaming ...

CNET
Get 100 free MP3 albums from Microsoft
CNET
"We'll see your one free album, Google, and raise you a hundred!" The catch? Windows 8 and Windows Phone users only...

PCWorld
Twitter starts peeking at the other apps on your phone
PCWorld
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its ...

San Jose Mercury News
Tablet shopping: iPad, Android or Windows?
San Jose Mercury News
NEW YORK -- Time for a tablet? People tend to hold onto tablets longer than smartphones, so take time to weigh your options. A major consideration is what phone you or your gift recipient already has. Although it's possible for Android owners to have Apple's ...

CNET
Amazon Black Friday deals on Kindle and Fire devices start Thursday
CNET
Amazon is offering some impressive deals on its in-house Kindle readers, Fire tablets and Fire phones during the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend....

Computerworld
Lenovo Pranks Shoppers for Yoga 3 Ad
PC Magazine
The laptop maker on Tuesday released a Yoga 3 promotional video featuring unsuspecting mallgoers and a broken Apple laptop. The prank featured members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater comedy troupe, who tricked passersby at the Plymouth ...

Computerandvideogames.com
Assassin's Creed Unity Season Pass 'discontinued', free game offered
Computerandvideogames.com
In a drastic move following the marred launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has "discontinued" the game's Season Pass and announced free offerings as compensation to owners of the game. Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallet detailed the move in a ...


TechCrunch
Identity Wars: Why Apple Pay Is About More Than Payments
TechCrunch
Editor's Note: Patrick Salyer is the chief executive officer of Gigya, a customer identity management company. There's been no shortage of attention ...

Microsoft reportedly planning Windows 10 event for January
Microsoft will hold an event this January to show off the new features of Windows 10, according to The Verge. Although January is traditionally ...

Hackers force message on websites via US firm - San Francisco Chronicle: "...The executive says hackers rerouted Internet traffic from its website to a computer server that generated a message to visitors that their site had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. Published reports noted the message appeared on websites for several UK newspapers, CNBC and the National Hockey League. Gigya says no user or company data was compromised in the hack. The Syrian group aligns itself with Syrian President Bashar Assad..."

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Does Zynga Have A Future? (3 videos)

Are Better Days Ahead for Zynga?: Video - Bloomberg:
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IDG Ventures USA's Tyler He and Bloomberg Intelligence's Praveen Menon discuss the outlook for Zynga with Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." Bloomberg's Cory Johnson also comments. (Source: Bloomberg Aug7)

Zynga's Wild Ride: Can the Company Ever Rebound?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Zynga once seemed like a dominant company in a rapidly growing industry. But after a big IPO that enriched its founder Mark Pincus, Zynga became the poster boy of a failed social-media company. As CEO Don Mattrick enters into his second year at the helm of Zynga, Bloomberg's Cory Johnson looks at Zynga's strange and interesting path to today. (Source: Bloomberg Aug7)

Turnaround Troubles: Can Don Mattrick Save Zynga?: Video - Bloomberg:
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 Zynga posted second-quarter results at the low end of its forecast and cut its full-year outlook after deciding to delay new games, including poker and Words With Friends. Cory Johnson has more on "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg Aug7)

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Video Games Are Mainstream, Getting Better (video)

Tretton: Video Games Are Mainstream, Getting Better: Video - Bloomberg:
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John Vignocchi, executive producer of Disney Infinity, and Jack Tretton, former CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, talk with Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman about trends at this years E3 conference, Disney Infinity, virtual reality and the future of gaming. (Source: Bloomberg June 12)

Google's states of play
Politico
Google is a Washington powerhouse that shapes federal law, rewards congressional allies and boasts a new 54,000-square-foot office, just down the ...

Google I/O 2014: What to expect as Google increases its focus on 'connected' tech
PCWorld (blog)
Google needs an answer to Microsoft's DirectX 12 and Apple's Metal—that is, a lower-level graphics programming language that allows more efficient ...

Facebook Hastens the Era of Open Source Hardware
Forbes
If necessity is the mother of invention, then the need for cheap, efficient, compact servers and network equipment has made Facebook an innovator of ...

Yahoo aims to be a mobile company
SFGate
Facebook is on top of the world of mobile advertising, but analysts say that Yahoo is positioned to stay competitive in this rapidly growing world.

Apple, Google, Samsung vie to bring health apps to wearables
Chicago Tribune
Apple Inc , Samsung Electronics Co and Google Inc , searching for applications that could turn nascent wearable technology like smartwatches and ...

Microsoft Previews All-Cloud Azure Disaster Recovery Service
eWeek
Microsoft is setting out to erase any lingering doubts about cloud-based disaster recovery with a preview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to Azure.

Facebook widens tracking for advertisers
New Zealand Herald
If you use Facebook, the specific ads you see have been based mostly on what ...Google, Facebook and Yahoo - among the largest hubs for online ...

Facebook takes a shot at picture messaging with Snapchat-like app
Columbus Dispatch
Availability: Slingshot, which Facebook officially released last week, works with Apple and Android devices. A Facebook account isn't required.

Titan sprouts 'Magic Island', say astroboffins
Register
Astroboffins monitoring Titan have spotted something new that hints at how the moon's weather works. The folks behind the discovery have named the new feature a “magic island”, because nobody knows what it is or why it appeared. The discovery is ...

Emperor penguins could survive global warming, study indicates
Haaretz
The flightless fowls don't actually breed in the same place every year, scientists found to their surprise: They will move if they have to. By Ruth Schuster | Jun. 23, 2014 | 9:23 AM. Tweet. Emperor penguin (AP). An Emperor penguin that got lost and wound up ...

European Space Agency—The Earth's Changing Fields Of Magnetism (Satellite)
SatNews Publishers
[SatNews] The first set of high-resolution results from ESA's three-satellite Swarm constellation reveals the most recent changes in the magnetic field that protects our planet. Magnetic field changes. Image courtesy of ESA. Launched in November 2013, ...

Scientists reveal secrets of Higgs Boson particle
New Zealand Herald
Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered more information about the Higgs Boson particle. Photo / CERN. Physicists say they have learned more about the identity of the Higgs Boson, the elusive particle whose ground-breaking ...

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Struggling Zynga serves up ChefVille virtual restaurant game

Struggling Zynga serves up ChefVille virtual restaurant game
CNET
You can't rain on Zynga's parade. Amid lawsuits and disappointing earnings, the game-creator continues to expand its "Ville" series with a new restaurant-themed social game. by Donna Tam Zynga launched its version of a restaurant social game today, ...

Chrysler, Sprint team up to offer new Uconnect infotainment features
The Detroit News
By Melissa Burden Acme, Mich.— Chrysler Group LLC said Monday it has partnered with Sprint to provide embedded wireless services for Chrysler's Uconnect infotainment system that will be available in the 2013 Ram 1500 pickup and SRT Viper models in fall ...

Infosys launches cloud solutions
Hindu Business Line
This, according to the company, will enable its existing and future clients to adopt, manage and govern cloud computing solutions. Vishnu Bat, Vice-President and Global Head-Cloud, told Business Line: “Businesses can now accelerate time-to-market of ...

Going Mobile: Frequent Queries From the C-Suite
Wired News
I've been reading Wired since Issue 1 in 1993 and while that may date me, I'm not ashamed to say it since it also means I've been around long enough to witness many IT trends in the workplace. The most significant is today's surge in mobile and social ...

Web Applications Are Attacked One out of Three Days, Report Says
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG-News-Service:Romania-Bureau A typical Web application is the target of an attack at least one in three days on average, according to a report released by data security firm Imperva. The third edition of Imperva's semi-annual ...

Payback: Samsung says Apple destroyed evidence
CNET
Samsung tells court not to buy Apple's excuses for why managers, including Steve Jobs, generated so few e-mails relevant to the companies' patent dispute. Samsung wants Apple penalized. by Greg Sandoval Apple didn't preserve e-mail evidence any better ...

Why Dropping YouTube in iOS 6 is Good
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan A little too much ado is being made over Apple dropping the YouTube app from iOS 6, probably because Apple and Google are locked in a death match right now. That's true, but it isn't why YouTube had to go. That YouTube icon on every ...

Sprint drops price of 16 GB iPhone 4S to $149.99
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen The move comes about five weeks ahead of Apple's expected launch of the next-generation iPhone on Sept. 12. Sprint is also offering free activation when buying the 16 GB iPhone 4S online, an added savings of $36, according to its ...

Apple pulls its boy genius ads
CNET
Claiming this was its strategy all along, Apple removes the Olympics ads in which its Genius Bar employees were helpful at 4 am and its customers were none too bright about tech. by Chris Matyszczyk Just as you were getting used to the idea that men in ...

Amazon reportedly delivers Lockers service to San Francisco
CNET
The company already offers its Lockers, the e-retail giant's answer to Best Buy's in-store pickup, in New York City, the Washington, DC, area, and Seattle. by Don Reisinger Amazon Lockers, the e-retail giant's answer to Best Buy's in-store pickup, ...

Kno launches digital textbooks for K-12 pupils
CNET
Digital education startup Kno is making its move on elementary and secondary schools. Rent a textbook, anyone? by Charlie Osborne Kno has announced a new partnership with publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that sees the company getting into the K-12 ...

Microsoft Reaches Licensing Deal With Sharp
Wall Street Journal
By Tess Stynes Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) reached a licensing agreement with consumer electronics company Sharp Corp. (6753.TO, SHCAY) for technology that eases the transfer of larger files between personal computers and other electronic devices.

British radio telescope genius Sir Bernard Lovell dies
Register
By Anna Leach • Get more from this author Sir Bernard Lovell - the brilliant British physicist whose inventions observed cosmic rays and ended up on the front lines of the Cold War - has died at the age of 98 this week. Bristol-born Sir Bernard is ...

Google asteroid mining venture attracts billionaires
Newsday
Business Newsday New York Print Aa Google asteroid mining venture attracts billionaires Originally published: August 7, 2012 10:53 AM Updated: August 7, 2012 11:06 AM By BLOOMBERG NEWS Planetary Resources Inc., an asteroid-mining venture backed by ...

Newsday

AMD's New FirePro Chips Offer Integrated CPU, Graphics
eWeek
Like previous AMD chips, the FirePro APUs combine compute and graphics capabilities on the same chip, and are aimed at workstations used by design professionals. Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new FirePro chips that integrate both discrete-level ...

In-App Purchases Coming to Windows Phone 8, Not Earlier Versions
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Microsoft is finally bringing in-app purchases to Windows Phone, but it will only be available on the upcoming Windows Phone 8. Recent Microsoft guidelines confirm that users and developers working with the current version of Windows ...

Community Win: DayZ Being Developed as a Stand-Alone Game
Forbes
“The end of the beginning,” reads a post on the DayZ development blog, with an appropriately apocalyptic tone for the massive ArmA II zombie mod that's attracted some 1000000 players. The news inside is much sunnier than a terrifying wasteland infested ...

Google Invests in Digital Signature Company DocuSign
PCWorld
By Loek Essers, IDG-News-Service:Amsterdam-Bureau Google has staked some cash on the market for digital signatures on electronic documents with a venture capital investment in DocuSign, the companies announced Tuesday. DocuSign's technology is used by ...

Bingo! Facebook Gambles On Games Using Real Money, Not Credits, To Engage Users
TechCrunch
For the last three quarters, Facebook has been struggling to move the needle on its payments business, but today a new game has launched that could provide a clue to how that could change that in the future: the social network has, for the first time, ...

Plextor M5 Pro bulges SSD envelope with 94K IOPS and 540MB/s
Engadget
By Steve Dent posted Aug 7th 2012 1:00PM Plextor's newly launched M5 Pro is angling to be the top dot on the SATA III SSD spec charts -- and looks like it will mostly succeed. The Marvell Monet controller lets the unit hit a continuous 540 MB/s read ...

Amazon's First Game is a Hallucinatory Minutiae-Spotters Wonderland
Kotaku
As mentioned this morning, Amazon.com is in the game development business. The first Facebook title from the newly-revealed Amazon Game Studios is a fresh take on the hidden object genre that'll have you seeing things. WithinLiving Classics's colorful ...

THQ Cancels inSane, Returns Intellectual Property Rights to Guillermo del Toro
RipTen
As THQ works to streamline their operations and recover from a miserable period in their financial history, even exciting titles aren't safe from cancelation. Yesterday during the publisher's Q1 financial earnings call, it was revealed that Guillermo ...

RipTen

Uncharted 3 Patch 1.13 Adds Most Content Ever
Cinema Blend
Uncharted 3 is nearly a year old, but that doesn't mean the team over at Naughty Dog is done adding to the online component of the game. Patch 1.13 is due to drop later today and, with it, the developers are promising the largest batch of updates to ...

Cinema Blend

Wii U Box Art for Three Ubisoft Games Appear at Amazon
TheHDRoom
Nintendo has remained quiet on revealing Wii U specifics with roughly three months to go until the new console's anticipated November release. We still don't have a release date, price, box art, or finalized pack out specs.

TheHDRoom

Everyone wants to marry NASA's 'Mohawk Guy'
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Bobak Ferdowsi, likely NASA's only heartthrob, might just be the most sought-after man in the nation right now. Ferdowsi, who became instantly famous for simultaneously looking attractive and landing the Curiosity rover on Mars — impossible!

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Mass Effect 3 Will Include Interactive Comic On Wii U
Gamenguide
The Mass Effect series will be making its much anticipated debut on a Nintendo console this holiday season and the game's maker Bioware has announced that the upcoming Wii U version of Mass Effect 3 will uses an interactive comic book to catch Nintendo ...

Gamenguide

New app lets New Yorker issues pile up in your phone instead of your bathroom
San Francisco Business Times (blog)
At last The New Yorker can be read (or left to pile up unread, creating feelings of guilt) via an iPhone. The New Yorker rolled out its new iPhone app this week, though the magazine didn't say whether the battery of a typical phone will last long ...

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