-
About Google
Google Inc. (GOOG and GGEA) is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31 2007).
Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising US$1.67 billion, making it worth US$23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy, and positive employee relations have been important tenets during Google's growth, the latter resulting in being identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work. The company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil", however Google is not without controversy related to its business practices; there are concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, censorship, and discontinuation of services. -
Related Topics
Microsoft Office Web Apps: Five Needed Fixes
176 articles also mentioned MicrosoftGoogle protests Apple's iPhone developers agreement
123 articles also mentioned AppleApps Premier: CIOs Weigh Adoption of Google's Enterprise Collaboration and Communication Suite
81 articles also mentioned IBMQA Imad Mouline CTO of Compuware Division Gomez
64 articles also mentioned AmazonApps Premier: CIOs Weigh Adoption of Google's Enterprise Collaboration and Communication Suite
48 articles also mentioned CIOOracle Charges Into Desktop Virtualization With VDI 3.2
46 articles also mentioned OracleCisco Wants to Cius Now
40 articles also mentioned Cisco -
Quotes about Google
-
“ Google now confesses it has been collecting people's information for years, yet claims they still do not know exactly what they collected and who was vulnerable. ”
In Google tells lawmakers it never used Wi-Fi data -
“ But I don't feel I have solid communications with Google from the support and engineering perspectives. ”
In Apps Premier: CIOs Weigh Adoption of Google's Enterprise Collaboration and Communication Suite -
“ Google has taken important steps in terms of usability, performance, reliability and, most important, providing guidance to enterprises on how to deploy these tools effectively. ”
In Apps Premier: CIOs Weigh Adoption of Google's Enterprise Collaboration and Communication Suite
-







Recent Comments