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Think Google? Think Quarterly

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There are magazines everywhere around the web these days.  No matter what your area of interest, you can probably find something to peak it.  Now the multi-billion dollar company Google has also jumped on the bandwagon, with the launch of its own quarterly magazine, attempting to create a “breathing space in a busy world.”
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, Google’s magazine ‘Think Quarterly’ is a 68-page glossy focusing on business.  Using a Flash app, this aesthetically stunning production is designed by The Church of London (a creative agency).  Articles are based on business and technology topics, composed by various freelancers, as well as professionals in the field including,The Guardian’s ‘Datablog’ Simon Rogers and ‘WE Magazine’ editor Ulrike Reinhard.


According to Google’s managing director of UK & Ireland operations Matt Brittin, the thinking behind the magazine is simple: “At Google, we often think that speed is the forgotten ‘killer application’ – the ingredient that can differentiate winners from the rest… We know that the faster we deliver results, the more useful people find our service…But in a world of accelerating change, we all need time to reflect. Think Quarterly is a breathing space in a busy world. It’s a place to take time out and consider what’s happening and why it matters.”


Google will always be jumping on new ideas and ‘Think Quarterly’ is just one way for it to naturally advance in a fast-advancing Internet world.

Google May Buy Groupon

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Google is setting its sights on the purchase of Groupon, the New York Times reported today.

Groupon, the increasingly popular e-commerce coupon website, emails about 200 deals daily to its members. The deals are actualized only when a minimum number of people target the same deal, which in turn enables Groupon to negotiate steep group discounts on the relevant item or service.

Google may pay as much as $6 billion for Groupon, according to the New York Times report. But sources informed about the potential agreement advised that the deal is not yet confirmed.

The Talent War in Silicon Valley

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The battle between Internet giants Google and Facebook has been heating up in recent weeks.  The social networking titan Facebook recently announced plans to upgrade their users’ email to a full-fledged Web-based email system, a change that could impact significantly on the Google’s popular Gmail system. With the rise in popularity of social networking – Facebook has acquired 500 million members since it was launched in 2004 – the question in the industry now is whether Google, for its part, will try to create a social network to directly compete with their Facebook rival.

“We’re not working on a social network platform that’s just going to be another social network platform,” Google’s head of mobile product development, Hugo Barra, insisted at last week’s Monaco Media Forum. Despite the protests to the contrary, however, the questions abound.

Meanwhile, the rivalry has gone beyond the corporation’s programs and into their offices, as Google now faces a threat from Facebook for its employees’ talents. Recently, several high-level Google “techies” have moved over to Facebook, attracted by the opportunity to work at a smaller company and to receive stock options.  Google engineer Lars Rasmussen, one of the creators of Google Maps, was the latest switch-over, joining current Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook head of mobile Erick Tseng and Facebook vice president of advertising and global operations David Fischer.

In an attempt to stem the tide of top people “jumping ship” to their fiercest competitor, Google apparently plans to initiate a 10% salary increase for all employees, as well as to give a $1,000 holiday bonus to each one.