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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
New numbers and a new look for our Transparency Report
We launched the Transparency Report in 2010 to show how laws and policies affect access to information online, including law enforcement o...
Friday, December 12, 2014
Life in the fast lane: lane guidance for drivers in Google Maps
Over the holiday season, if you’re driving back home to see family, or meeting up with friends, you can get where you want to go quickly and...
Thursday, December 11, 2014
An update on Google News in Spain
After 9/11, one of our engineers, Krishna Bharat, realized that results for the query “World Trade Center” returned nothing about the terror...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Bringing the museum to your mobile
Enter the Museum of Arts et Métiers in Paris and one of the first things on view is a strange looking plane perched over a historic stairca...
Competition drives Europe's mobile market
IBM launched the first smartphone only 20 years ago. Nicknamed Simon, it weighed more than a half a kilo, cost more than EUR1400 in today’s...
Blasting off from a LaunchPad in Barcelona
Barcelona is already known for its sunshine and seashore. Now, according to the Financial Times , it aims to become just as well known for i...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Apply for a computer science award
High schools need to increase their computer science offerings and we’re eager to support. Starting today, applications are now being accept...
Monday, December 8, 2014
Bringing a fresh digital vision from “New Europe” to Brussels
While Old Europe ponders its approach to the digital future, New Europe is rushing ahead to embrace the web as a motor for growth and prospe...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Coding for democracy in Europe
It was an audacious task - write software that would increase democratic participation in Europe. At a time when polls show increasing publi...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Bringing a key moment of Gulf history online
Our Paris-based Cultural Institute holds a global mandate to promoting culture around the globe. This week, it is reaching out to the Arab ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Dutch windmills to power Google’s Eemshaven data centre
The Netherlands is famous for its windmills , which over the years have been used to saw wood, mill corn, pump water and much more. Now, a ...
Friday, November 14, 2014
Throwing off the shackles of communism
A quarter century ago, the people of Central Europe liberated themselves, bringing down the Iron Curtain, choosing capitalism over communism...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
YouTube music hits the right note
You watched the Belgian singer Stromae perform Papaoutai 200+ million times on YouTube, helping propel the song about his father to the top...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
It’s time to extend the US Privacy Act to EU citizens
Last summer’s Snowden revelations not only highlighted the urgent need for surveillance reform but also severely damaged relations between t...
Powering Italy’s exporters with the web
Before the Internet, almost all exporters were big, powerful companies. Exporting was expensive and time-consuming, requiring large sales, m...
Saturday, November 8, 2014
#Deutschland25 - a new generation after the Berlin Wall
Today, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the brave people who tore down the Iron Curtain. Courtesy of the German Federal Archives ,...
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