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Google Glass sales halted but kit is not dead| The company insists it is still committed to launching the smart glasses as a consumer product, but will stop producing Glass in its present form | |
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Google partners with Lending Club for loans A pilot program making available low-interest loans to Google’s small-business partners
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| Jan.20 |
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Google, Fidelity invest $1 billion in SpaceX Elon Musk’s spacecraft company confirmed that Google and financial services giant Fidelity have, together, invested $1 billion in the busine...
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| Jan.29 |
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Google earnings miss estimates, stock sinks The earnings were well below analysts’ predictions, marking the fifth consecutive quarter that Google hasn’t cleared a key hurdle
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| Feb.20 |
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Eric Schmidt and wife give $10M to Monterey Bay Aquarium Google chairman and his wife, Wendy, have committed $10 million to bolster the efforts of Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program
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| Feb.23 |
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Google buys Softcard technology Aiming to undercut Apple Pay, Google is teaming up with three major U.S. wireless carriers to prod more people into using its mobile wallet
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| Feb.27 |
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Google to expand its corporate campus The plans include as many as four futuristic looking buildings, which can expand as the company grows
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| Mar.25 |
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Google hires Morgan Stanley finance chief Ruth Porat Google, which is facing questions about increased spending in the face of slipping prices for its ads, has turned to the big bank for its new...
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| Apr.2 |
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Stock split could cost Google more than $500M An unorthodox stock split designed to ensure CEO Larry Page and co-founder Sergey Brin retain control of the Internet’s most profitable comp...
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| Apr.25 |
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Google executive dies in Everest avalanche amid quake| Dan Fredinburg died after being caught in an avalanche caused by the powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Nepal | |
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| May.11 |
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Google admits self-driving cars involved in 11 accidents  There have been 11 minor accidents with light damage and no injuries. Its vehicles have been hit seven times from behind and sideswiped twice
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| Jun.29 |
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Google rejected by high court in Oracle Java case The U.S. Supreme Court let Oracle press accusations that Google developed the Android smartphone OS by copying programming language
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| Jul.16 |
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Google signals new era of austerity with new CFO Investor hopes for a more austere Google are largely tied to the arrival of a new chief financial officer, Ruth Porat
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| Jul.17 |
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Google shareholders revel in record 1-day windfall of $65.1B| Stock roared to produce the biggest shareholder windfall in U.S. history as investors rewarded the company for promising to curb its spending | |
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| Aug.10 |
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Google gives itself a brand-new name: Alphabet Google will be owned by a new umbrella company, Alphabet, a collection of companies, with Google as its largest subsidiary
| Page will be Alphabet’s CEO and Brin its president. Google’s new CEO will be Sundar Pichai
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| Sep.1 |
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Google reveals new logo for mobile world | Google has unveiled a new logo for its core search services. The change smoothes out some of the features in the letters | |
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| Sep.11 |
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Nintendo, Google spinoff Niantic in smartphone game Nintendo Co., the Pokemon Co. and Google intend to transplant the virtual realities of the famous Pokemon into real-world locations
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| Oct.20 |
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Yahoo teaming up with Google Mayer, a top Google executive until defecting to Yahoo, announced the companies had reached a 3-year deal to work in search and ads
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| Oct.22 |
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Google opens Alphabet era with 3Q report that lifts stock Google received an 'A' from investors for its third-quarter report that ushered the Internet search leader into a new era under Alphabet
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| Nov.13 |
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Google self-driving car pulled over for 'driving too slowly'  Map of El Camino Real and Rengstorff Avenue Mountain View The officer noticed traffic backing up behind a slow-moving car in the eastbound No. 3 lane. The vehicle was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone
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| Dec.30 |
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US military shelves Google robot plan over 'noise concerns' The US army says it has mothballed plans to deploy a robot developed in conjunction with Google because it is 'too loud'
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| Dec.31 |
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Google looks to expand in Alameda Google aims to expand at the former Alameda Naval Air Station, where the technology giant plans to lease a third building
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