Google has a tool for tracking government requests directed to Google and YouTube. From http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/: “Like other technology and communications companies, we regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products. The map shows the number of requests that [...]
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Google’s government requests
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brazil, Canada, court order, December 31 2009, Fourth Amendment, Germany, Google, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, government requests, India, July 1 2009, South Korea, U.S. Constitution, United Kingdom, United States, YouTube on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Phony corporate slogans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged corporate slogans, Ford, Ford Pinto, Google, Microsoft, monopoly, phony, quality is job one, Steve Jobs on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s my comment on an article about Apple CEO Steve Jobs saying that Google’s “don’t be evil” slogan was rubbish: Most slogans aren’t serious. Like Ford’s “Quality is Job One,” despite making the faulty Pinto, and deciding it was cheapter to settle lawsuits than recall it. Or Microsoft’s, “Where Do You Want to Go Today?”, [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Google’s mission is to store all the world’s information
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charlie Rose, CharlieRose.com, Google, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Google Dashboard, google.com, Larry Page, March 6 2009, Sergey Brin, The Great Firewall of China on November 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
On March 6, 2009, Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared on the Charlie Rose program, and made a profound statement about Google’s mission: Charlie Rose: What was the original mission for Google? Eric Schmidt: All the world’s information, universally accessible and useful. Charlie Rose: And how we doing on that? Eric Schmidt: Well, we’ve just started. [...]
“But gold pays no dividends”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, bond market, bonds, Cisco, dividends, gold, Google, Great Depression, RIM, savings account, stock market, stocks, Yahoo on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I first told a friend about my research into gold as an investment, he responded with “but gold pays no dividends.” True, but neither do bonds, and the bond market is bigger than the stock market. Nor do savings accounts or stocks that don’t pay dividends, including prominent ones like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Cisco [...]
Don’t trust, verify
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Finance, Google, market capitalization, stocks, Yahoo on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From http://screen.yahoo.com/b?mc=100000000/&z=mc&db=stocks&vw=1&b=1 we see an example of incorrect financial numbers from a prominent financial site. As of Saturday, February 21, 2009, it incorrectly reports the following three publicly traded stocks as having the highest market capitalization (T represents trillions of U.S. dollars): CEO 3.83T NTT 2.97T BCH 2.77T Google Finance and Reuters reports the correct values [...]
