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Google Unleashes 100 Million Dollars To Rent Building

Posted by on October 23, 2011 No comments

The Landmark at ShorelineGoogle has reportedly spent $ 100 million U.S. dollars to expand its headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. This expansion is urgent because of the rapid evolution of the business of the company’s largest search engine. What makes the space requirements for employees in all business units increased significantly.

According to the Contra Costa Times, Google has purchased an area of ​​240,000 square meters, located not far from Google’s headquarters today. In this area there are several office buildings known as The Landmark at Shoreline. Google spokesman confirmed the purchase but declined to mention the purchase price.

“We continue to recruit new employees, so you need space for new employees is very important,” said David Radcliffe, Google’s vice president for real estate and business services. “The reference location is very strategic position due to contact with our office and we will connect to our campus,” said David.

Local newspapers said the building in the area of ​​Mountain View can accommodate approximately 960 employees. However, a Google spokesman once again declined to say how many employees work there.

Google Will Create an Online Music Store Based on Cloud Services

Posted by on October 17, 2011 No comments

Google Music Beta

Five months after the introduction of a music service in the cloud with limited services, Google began negotiating with major record labels to expand services. Google plans to open an online music store to compete with Apple’s iTunes.

According to some music executives, Google is planning to open a music store in the coming weeks. This music store is likely to be connected with cloud services from Google that Beta of music that allows users to back up your music files on the remote server and can do streaming on mobile devices.

However, a Google spokesman declined to comment to the media on this topic yet. Google hopes to open a music store before Apple operates iTunes music cloud service in October 2011. iTunes cloud services have been published since June 2011, but it only works in October.

Prior negotiations with the major record companies for the services of “intelligent service box” that allows links to collections of digital music users) is experiencing a failure. Google sued by the record, because it can not suppress piracy that occurs after the service was operated.

Google does not like Apple has licensed music from iTunes, where users can download songs directly from the collection of the master block. Amazon even more desperate because it has launched a cloud-based music service without a license, five weeks after Google launched its beta version of music.

Google Drive will Replace Google Docs

Posted by on September 26, 2011 No comments

Google Drive - Google Online Storage

One of the services of Google said that Google Docs will undergo a rebranding. With the upgrade actions, Google seems to be “cloud” storage services strengthened. This shock news when a blogger and consultant in social media, Johannes Wigand took a screenshot in an event sponsored by Google.

In the screenshots you see an interface similar to Google Docs. However, in the upper left corner, rather than printed name ‘Docs’, which is written ‘Drive’. This is the folder menu, which is a different label which was not saying “My Collections”, but saying “My Google Drive ‘, quoted by VentureBeat.

While the Google unit is present, then it could be a competitor of online storage services like Box.net and Dropbox. All these services have the ability to synchronize with a local file.

Google Docs has been widely used as a virtual hard disk. There are several types of documents can be stored here, such as photos, videos, PDF files, and others. By changing the name, the user would certainly be easier to “understand” the service.

For matters of pricing, Google Docs to price more expensive than similar services. In comparison, Google offers 1GB of free storage with an option to purchase 20 GB for $ 5, while Dropbox offers 2 GB free 50 GB per month with a price of $ 10.

Box.net service that offers more storage capacity is 5 GB and 50 GB free Price: 10 USD per month.