Google Reveals Pricing of Massive Notes Offering

Google Inc. has announced the pricing of its public offering of $3,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its notes. The public offering consists of $1,000,000,000 of 1.250% Notes due 2014, $1,000,000,000 of 2.125% Notes due 2016 and $1,000,000,000...

Google Makes Major Donation to Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory

Google has announced a $1,25 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. How People Arrived Here: the nelson mandela centre of memory

Not As Web Savvy As You Think

College students trust Google so much that a Northwestern University study has found many students only click on websites that turn up at the top of Google searches to complete assigned tasks. If they don’t use Google, researchers found that students...

The Violence of Crowds

Perhaps the most compelling reason for skepticism concerning the “wisdom of crowds” is the strong case of historical evidence that, with the reinforcement of a crowd, the individual is more inclined towards violent action than towards considered...

Identity on Planet Google

Yesterday I finally got around to watching Ken Auletta’s talk about his Googled book, which I had saved on my VTR from its Book TV broadcast. I had read several reviews of the book, and I have been familiar with Auletta’s style of both...

Mayor of London Greening the City By Investing in Over 50 Public Space Projects

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has set out his vision to transform London’s public spaces and create beautifully designed oases throughout the capital’s urban jungle. Over the next three years, in excess of £220 million will be invested...

Incrementing Eric Schmidt’s CHUTZPAH Count

When it comes to Google-based Chutzpah of the Week awards, my recent practice seems to have been to assign them at the corporate level, rather than singling out individuals. Nevertheless, Eric Schmidt is one of the earliest Chutzpah of the Week award...

Google Gets It Wrong About Service

I see that I compared Google to “that small boy with a hammer who sees everything as a nail” back in November of 2007, which is when we saw the first signs of Google’s everything-can-be-reduced-to-search philosophy sticking its nose...

This is My Body; This is My Blood; This is My URL

It had to happen sooner or later. A culture that has had such firm determination in industrializing education, health care, and even the food we eat would obviously find a way to industrialize religious practices. All it needed was the right supporting...