Google Goes to U.N. Climate Conference
The U.N. has brought representatives from 190 nations to Bali, Indonesia to discuss climate change. Want to guess what search engine giant is present, as well? That’s right – Google. A little over a week ago, the U.N.’s World Food Program began a contest on YouTube. Before that, Cisco, Google, and the U.N. launched a [...]
U.N. Behind “Hunger Bytes” YouTube Contest
The competition has a slightly goofy name – “Hunger Bytes” – and a strange logo – a globe with two pointy teeth. But this YouTube-centric contest is for a good cause, and it’s backed by the United Nations World Food Program. “[P]roduce the funniest, strangest or edgiest 30 or 60 second video about hunger,” challenges [...]
Google Touted As Possible Sprint Buyer
A wireless broadband network could be as close as writing a check, if Google opts to save Sprint and turn it into the GoogleNet.The fanciful suggestion by Rich Tehrani that Google may buy Sprint stems from rumors hinting along those lines. Such a move would be as disruptive to the wireless industry as Google’s debut [...]
MDG Monitor Goes Into Google Earth
Last week, Google partnered with the United Nations in an effort to end global poverty. It was truly startling to see the two entities together, and all the better since they had such a laudable goal. The partnership may not have been too effective, though, and Google’s done something about that. A site known as [...]
Google, U.N. Partner On Poverty
Google and Cisco have partnered with the United Nations to launch a new Web site that will detail how and where Millennium Development Goals on ending poverty are being met. U.N. officials and other experts have said that meeting goals set in 2000 by the target date of 2015 is becoming more challenging. The creators [...]
Cisco, Google, And The U.N. Take On Poverty
Google has partnered with many companies and organizations, but a new development is far larger, and should have much more of a real-world impact, than anything we expected to see: the search giant is now working with Cisco and the United Nations to decrease global poverty. Cisco, Google, And The U.N. Take On Poverty This [...]
RSF: China Blocked Google Sites
A high level meeting of China’s Communist government took place this week, during which time Reporters Without Borders said China redirected certain Internet traffic to Baidu.Attempts to reach Google Blog Search and YouTube from China have been unsuccessful since October 17, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) charged today. The organization, which supports press freedom worldwide, said [...]
TokBox Receives $4 Million In Funding
Some beta services are more refined than others, and TokBox, which offers free video chat, may still have a ways to go. But TokBox has the support of Sequoia Capital, and also has around $4 million from the venture capital firm. Sequoia Capital is known for supporting Apple, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, and, well, the list [...]
Schmidt Speaks From the Lion’s Den
It’s one thing to talk about Net Neutrality and a little regulation to a crowd of digerati idealists. It’s quite another to bring that up at the Masters of the Universe Ball. That’s the pet name I have for a number of billionaire and powerbroker gatherings that take place throughout the year – my personal [...]
Cisco Chides Google Over FCC Proposal
Not that there’s a potential conflict of interest or anything, but Cisco, or at least Mary Brown, Cisco’s Director of Technology and Spectrum Policy, sounds insulted by Google’s attempt to strong arm the FCC into imposing a certain set of rules on the upcoming spectrum auction. It may be because FCC Chairman Kevin Martin made [...]
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