Google compete with Microsoft to buy Yahoo!

The U.S. group plans to carry out an offer to purchase its competitor, nine other private equity firms are considering the acquisition of concrete
"Google has made agreements with two private equity firms to help fund the agreement, this allows you to acquire the core of Yahoo! ', however Google is evaluating the situation has not been confirmed yet walks on this next purchase, are also interested in the same Microsoft.

Google will buy Yahoo

Yahoo! does not have the emrpesa CEO because he recently said goodbye to Carol Bartz abruptly in early September, to whom the board of the group blamed for not having achieved the goals that Yahoo had this year and also for not having a substantial increase of turnover and advertising revenue of the firm.

The company currently Yahoo buyback was offered by the Chinese company Alibaba, which is dedicated to selling different products through its online store, which is the main shareholder, which requested an immediate response for any delay would be detrimental to both companies.
Microsoft also tried to buy it in 2006 without success. The current bid the place associated with Silver Lake Partners and a Canadian pension fund.

Google says that China is a market 'only' Internet

Google China is a market for "single" Internet in the world, explained at a technology conference in Beijing vice-president of sales, John Liu. Liu declined to comment on the controversy that had the U.S. search engine with the Chinese government earlier this year on account of censorship of content and 'piracy' computer and said that Google is going to go for collaboration with Chinese firms.

"We're trying to offer our best services to businesses," explained Liu, who stressed the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the technology sector of China. "Everyone can be a customer, supplier, competitor or even a partner," said Google vice president of sales Google and China. In this sense, the manager predicted a "new competitive landscape" in an Internet that will expand in quantity, the exponential increase of users, and quality, by improving the content.

Google in China
Liu predicted that in 10 years will multiply the number of Internet users, current 1,800 million to 5,000 million people, many of them from emerging powers. China and actually exceeds the 400 million users, but the rate of penetration of the Net in just less than 25%, while in developed countries is around 70%. Similarly, he said, in 2020 there will be 10,000 million mobile phones worldwide, more than double the 4,600 million today. On the other hand, Liu defended the future of computing 'cloud' (cloud computing), as their characteristics of adaptability, individuality and its growth potential is much larger than traditional applications Google and China.

The Google vice president of sales said the company is now seeking "efficiency" of the user, ie to complete their experience in providing network and offers individualized options to your taste, your preferences and hit upon their interests. Google and China have since early this year a conflict since the California company accused hackers' Chinese 'Pirates' email accounts to Gmail or other services and threatened to leave their businesses in China, which he did, at least partially, for several months.

Texas is investigating Google

Google is under scrutiny. Texas authorities conducted a formal investigation against the internet giant for alleged monopolistic practices in its handling of search and online advertising.

The review, conducted by the state attorney general in the U.S. - try to find out if Google is neutral when it comes to display the search results. Some companies believe that the site deliberately placed at the end of the listing or are charged higher rates for advertising on the portal and the google investigation.

The company said in an official blog that its priority is "to provide search results and ads that are relevant and useful to their users."
He added: "As not all sites may appear at the top in the results or even on the first page, it is not surprising that the sites less relevant and less quality are not satisfied with their position in the resultsand the google investigation.

Texas is investigating Google

Google also noted in his blog that after the three companies that filed the complaint against them-myTriggers, SourceTool / Trade Comet and Foundem-are the same lawyers that represented Microsoft, a major search engine competitors.
In another incident, Google has proposed to pay $ 8.5 million to close a complaint against them on Buzz.
The service, which was released in February, allows Gmail users to build a social network based on their contacts and the google investigation.

Google and buzz

But several users sued Google Gmail Buzz ensuring that violated their privacy, for this reason google is investigating. The amount that the company is willing to pay are used to pay lawyers for the plaintiffs and as a donation to organizations that support privacy online.Each of the seven people who filed the suit would only be $ 2,500.
The agreement also includes a clause by which Google is committed to educating its users more privacy issues for Buzz.The settlement between both parties still must be approved by a judge.

Reprints Google had digitized texts

Google Inc. will give two million books in its digital library can reappear in the print world.

As part of an agreement announced Wednesday, Google opened part of its index to the inventor of a high speed printer that can produce a paperback book and 300 pages in less than five minutes. The new service is a recognition that not everyone wants to read his books on a computer or on a digital readout as those manufactured by Sony Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.

The fastest printer called "Espresso Book Machine" and has several years running, but may charge notoriety now has access to many books scanned from some of the largest libraries in the world. And On Demand Books, owner of Espresso, could get access to texts more difficult to achieve if Google gets court approval to the settlement of a class action that gives the right to sell print books.

"This is a key event for us," Dane said Nelle, executive director of On Demand Books, watching a demonstration of the espresso machine Wednesday at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Some of the books that Google has spent the last five years for scanning into digital format back to their origin on paper.

"It's like the circle was completed," said Google spokeswoman Jennie Johnson. "This will allow the public to get the physical copy of a book even if only one or two copies in a library in this country, or if not available here at all."

Google hopes that readers browse the new format

Google Inc. is testing a new format that will be assumed that reading stories online as easy as flipping through a magazine, a change that could eventually provide additional advertising sales revenue-hungry publishers.

The leader of Internet search revealed Monday the experiment called "Fast Flip" (Quick Tour) in a conference presented by TechCrunch, a popular blog of the global network.

The service is intended to replicate the visual appearance and operation of a print publication. The stories are displayed on websites that can be moved quickly by pressing large arrows at the side instead of the standard web link required to wait several seconds to display a page. Readers can choose through the content based on topics, favorite writers and publications.

For now, Fast Flip display only the first page of a story. Readers who wish to continue will have to click through the site's editor, where the deployment is rolled back to a traditional Internet page.

More than three dozen publishers, broadcasters and electronic media Web sites have agreed to share their content on Fast Flip. Among the participants are two major daily newspapers: The New York Times and Washington Post and major magazines like Newsweek and BusinessWeek.

Publishers who provide stories to Fast Flip get the bulk of the revenue from ads that Google tries to show in the new format. That is a change in relation to the main search page of Google and its news section, where the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, gets all the money from the ads displayed alongside headlines and snippets of stories.

Fast Flip is the latest step made by Google to improve its relationship with publishers of newspapers and magazines, many of whom have complained that the company benefits financially from its articles without sharing the money.

Google: The virtual servers are safer than traditional

The virtual servers that provide the service called Cloud Computing offers more security than traditional companies, said the director of Google Apps security of the area, Eran Feigenbaum, who presented the strategy in Spain security of this multinational.

Carlos Gracia, director of Google Enterprise area, said the cloud computing, which means that software applications and corporate data residing on servers located in data centers out of business, is a new revolution and a decade " not be in business servers.

He noted Google's bid for this service which includes messaging, collaboration, security and regulatory compliance.

Feigenbaum were affected the high cost for companies protect their data and security advantages of remote services and reducing costs.

Google launches information service in Arabic

Google Inc. on Tuesday launched an information service in Arabic on the Internet that allows users to answer questions between them.

The new service went into effect two weeks after Yahoo Inc. acquired one of the largest Internet portals in the Arab world. Like Google, Yahoo wants to serve the growing Arab population of young users.

Google decided to launch its service Ejabat "answers" in Arabic after discovering that many of their users' queries were not Arabs relevant results. The company, based in the town of Mountain View, California, estimated that at least 1% of circulating information on the website in Arabic.

"We recognize that users are better at answering the questions of everyone in your community and this product is the perfect way to share and provide such information," said Wael Ghonim, Google manager for the Middle East and North Africa,

Google already provides search pages in Arabic and its Blogger publishing platform is popular with writers who use the web.

The company does not offer a service in English Ejabat, but threw the like in Russian, Chinese and Thai, said her spokeswoman based in Dubai, Joanne Kubba.

Google says that Gmail is only used by tens of millions.

Although occasional failures are common, wider issues that have engaged the services of Google have been unusual. They are becoming a bigger threat to Google as it tries to sell more services to businesses.
Businesses are increasingly inclined to Google services because they are distributed on the internet, instead of being dealt within the facilities of each company. This can save companies money and bring more storage capacity than otherwise would have to buy.

But many companies have been skeptical about the advisability of outsourcing these tasks externally. Google argues that Web-based services are more reliable than those operated within business facilities, but large faults, such as Tuesday, represent another challenge to convince these companies reluctant.
Google said that more than 1.75 million businesses use Gmail as part of Google Apps, Google's answer to business software from Microsoft Corp. It is a crucial part in Google's strategy to root its brand among companies . Google Apps costs $ 50 per user per year.

It was not immediately known what caused the problem on Tuesday which led to Gmail users receive an error message while your computer tries repeatedly to connect to the service. The company said it is investigating the case.