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Google was formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while studying at Stanford University. It was one of the first companies to radically extend 40 year old text retrieval technology to be used over the whole internet. Google was a latecomer in the internet revolution in 1998, going public 6 years later, doing well even though public markets were struggling in the wake of the dotcom bust.
Today Google dominates internet search globally (except in China) and its revenues come largely from paid search services and from its Adsense advertising hosted on other web sites. Google has set about adding many different types of internet traffic, all monetized through advertising, such as web mail (Gmail), VoIP client (GoogleTalk), YouTube (which it acquired) and its own browser (Chrome). It is already dominant in search on handsets and in seeking to extend this in 2005 it decided to create a mobile operating system derived from Linux called Android, for smartphones and tablets. Today more smartphones are being sold using Android than any other operating system, having recently overtaken Nokia’s Symbian, and Apple’s iOS.
Click for Google will play nice with MOT patents, it insists
Amid all the conflict and uncertainty about wireless patent licensing, Google is keen to take the high ground ahead of its IPR-driven acquisition of Motorola Mobility. It is reported to be preparing a ...
- Microsoft win against MOT just adds to uncertainty
- Motorola nerves cloud strong Google outlook
- Yet more US lawsuits added in Apple-Android war
- Apple suffers two legal blows in Germany
- Europe to probe Samsung's use of patents
Android 5.0 rumoured for Spring launch
17 February, 2012
Unfulfilled expectations and impending Windows 8 release could be to blame
Google-Moto deal approved on both sides of pond
14 February, 2012
US antitrust regulator also green-lights purchase of Nortel patents by group including Microsoft, Apple as patent battle lines firm up
Google pulls Wallet prepaid cards
13 February, 2012
Search giant embarrassed by security hole in its NFC application, but insists it will have a fix soon
Google isn't abandoning CDMA users, it insists
7 February, 2012
Some devices require proprietary carrier code, so have been removed from open source portal, the search giant clarifies
Consumer group bids to derail Google-MOT deal
23 January, 2012
Consumer Watchdog calls on European Commission to block takeover of Motorola Mobility and mount antitrust probe
Google makes $3.65bn from Android, says Oracle
20 January, 2012
Database vendor reiterates its claim for share of those revenues if it wins patents case, as Google Q4 disappoints
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