Steve Jobs: “Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit’”

Wired says that as is traditional after a big Apple announcement, at a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, Jobs took questions from Apple employees. In response to a question about Google, Jobs said, “This don’t be evil mantra: ‘It’s bullshit.’” “Obviously, he was reacting to Google’s push into the phone business, which Apple regards [...]

White House supports Google’s approach on China

Backing away from its earlier stance, the White House has now officially endorsedGoogle’s position to no longer censor according to China’s whims. Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today, per MarketWatch: “We support [Google's] action…in a decision to no longer censor searches that happen using the [Google] platform,” Gibbs told reporters. He added that “our [...]

China to Google: Go to Hell

The Financial Times says, One of China’s top propaganda officials on Thursday reaffirmed the state’s commitment to censoring the internet, showing no sign of compromising in the face of Google’s threat to quit the country. Wang Chen, head of the State Council Information Office and deputy head of the Communist party’s propaganda department, said internet [...]

How Google Ended Up At War With China

Kamelia Angelova has a detailed post on Google’s China saga in Silicon Alley Insider. Click on each visual to go on to the next.

Google’s Stand Against China

On January 12, 2010, Google announced “A new approach to China” on its blog. Back in January 2006, when Google first entered China it noted that “we will carefully monitor conditions in China, including new laws and other restrictions on our services. If we determine that we are unable to achieve the objectives outlined we [...]

Google Apps Moves Towards a G-Drive

Google App users can now upload any type of file to the cloud with Google Docs. Main features: – Individual file size limit of 250MB. – Ability to upload files such as CAD, HTML, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, RAW photos, ZIP or RAR archives. – 1GB storage limit for files you upload that are not [...]

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