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Sellout. Unprincipled. Evil. These aren’t the sort of adjectives Google executives are used to hearing applied to their little startup, now a $150 billion company that has grown from a simple search engine into a dominating corporate powerhouse that even has its own foreign policy challenges. However, the company has been in for a bruising in some quarters this week.
Netflix said Tuesday that it has reached a deal with a movie-studio owned pay-tv and streaming service that will make recent theatrical releases available to its customers 90 days after they begin to appear on premium cable and on-demand channels. The agreement will give Netflix subscribers access to about 3,000 films in the Epix library beginning Sept. 1.
Apple has purchased Poly9, a Canadian Google Earth competitor, according to press reports Wednesday. The company describes its primary product, Globe, as “a cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe.” Poly9 has developed APIs for Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and other clients in recent years. Most of its employees reportedly have relocated to California.
The White House on Tuesday released its plan to fight intellectual property theft, including more than 30 recommendations designed to encourage all branches of government to take a more aggressive stand against piracy. The Joint Strategic Plan was required by the 2008 PRO-IP Act, , which established the office of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator in the executive branch.
Microsoft used its annual TechEd Conference to pitch its forthcoming mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, to business users. The platform will feature the kind of tight integration with Office applications that only the manufacturer of those applications can provide, the company insisted, along with a package of features commonly sought by consumer-level smartphone buyers.
Google plans to buy Global IP Solutions, a company that provides processing capabilities and other video and Voice over Internet Protocol services to companies such as Yahoo, AOL and WebEx. The $68 million deal, contingent on shareholder approval, represents a 142 percent premium over the closing price of GIPS stock the day before it announced it was being courted by a then-unannounced suitor.
Borders has launched its plan to sell the Kobo e-book reader and open its own e-book store on an increasingly crowded market Monday, apparently pinning its hopes on a slim price to mark out its territory. The Kobo eReader will be available June 17 for $150 — markedly cheaper than other readers and a pittance compared to the Apple iPad.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has released a sneak peek of its upcoming new operating system refresh and appears to be taking pains to suggest just how fresh and hip it is. To the pounding beat of “Boom Boom Pow” by the Black Eyed Peas, the brief video features three characters dancing while transparent images of touchscreens slide and zoom in the foreground.
Facebook may be preparing to roll out a “universal Like button” that Web site owners can place on their pages to share content with other members of the social networking site, according to reports in two media outlets Monday. However, an even more significant rollout may still be in the offing, according to Forrester Research analyst Augie Ray.
Egged on by the chairman of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, the Federal Trade Commission may be considering an effort to block Google’s $750 million purchase of mobile advertising firm AdMob. The FTC reportedly is assembling a team of attorneys to handle a possible antitrust action against the acquisition.
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