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Google Working on Hardware Testing Lab, Project X Facility

Google is getting serious about hardware. There have been several reports of Google working on several devices for the home, like an entertainment hub or a "personal communication device." It's becoming clear that these are not just disparate devices but part of a bigger strategy at Google. More evidence of thi...

13 February 2012
07:11 GMT

Google Made It Snow in California

It doesn't snow much in California, where Google is located. Specifically, it never snows in California where Google is located. But if you're Google you can make it snow, both online and, it seems, offline.The company has set up a nice surprise for its employees, to help them get in the holiday spirit mood...

19 December 2011
17:51 GMT

Go Inside the Googleplex with New Street View Images

If you've wondered what Google's rather famous headquarters look like up close, new Street View imagery form the Googleplex in Mountain View should be right up your alley. Most of Googleplex, which has a lot of outdoor areas is explorable and you can even see Googlers enjoying their lunch or moving about i...

25 November 2011
07:49 GMT

Google Plans Super Green Building for New Hires

Facebook acquired the massive former Sun Headquarters and already plans to greatly expand it as well as build additional buildings nearby. This, to support as many as 9,400 employees, six years from now. But Google already has about as many at its current headquarters and the company is looking to expand as well.And,...

9 May 2011
04:25 GMT

Google Said to Buy Building Covering City Block in New York for 'Googleplex East'

Google is reported to be looking to buy one of the largest buildings in Manhattan, an 18-story, 2.9 million square feet (270,000 square meters) giant in which it already rents a huge amount of space. The company has been said to be looking to expand its office space in New York since at least the beginning of the yea...

28 October 2010
04:04 GMT

Google Goats: The Organic Lawn Mowers

Google takes pride in its ‘green culture’ and tries its best to be as environmentally conscious as possible, for a large corporation, anyway. It’s using green energy, whenever possible, to power its data centers and its headquarters, the Googleplex, is ‘littered’ with solar panels that p...

16 April 2010
06:31 GMT

Google to Build Houses for Employees

Apparently, Google is not just a huge and extremely profitable company, concerned only with sales, revenue and statistics, as it has recently surfaced that it also wants to make its employees happier by building them residential areas closer to the place they work in. The current headquarters of Google are located in...

19 February 2010
01:51 GMT

Jaiku Co-Founder Leaves Google

It seems that most small services that are purchased by larger ones either gain tremendous popularity in no time or end up in smoke, or at least they lose their most important figures. The latter situation occurred with Jaiku, the social networking site from Finland, which was acquired by Google in October 2007. Howe...

15 October 2009
01:57 GMT

Buy a Trip to Googleplex on Ebay

Google is regarded as the best company to work for because it offers all kinds of amazing things to its employee, starting with cafeterias and bars and ending with swimming pools and fast-foods. Because of that, most users on the Internet and somehow interested in Google always dream about a trip at the Googleplex, s...

17 April 2008
09:20 GMT

Ex-Google Employee, "Google Has Problems, Too!"

Having a job at Google is somehow like living in paradise, all the people who have ever worked for the Mountain View-based company explain. And it's probably true because starting with cafeterias or bars and ending with pool tables or all kinds of games, they're all available for free for the persons workin...

15 April 2008
08:40 GMT

Google Dubbed the most Employee-Friendly Company

Does receiving a CV every 25 seconds sound like a lot of CVs to go through at the end of the day? It should be, it's the Google standard, meaning that future successful companies will measure against it and everything it does. Out of the 3456 people who want to join the Googlers only 9 actually make it so I gues...

28 December 2007
10:39 GMT

Google Prepares for The 1 vs. 1 Battle with Microsoft

The Mountain View company is continuously opening new offices in every corner of the world but this time, it's something very important. Google announced its plans to expand the Kirkland office, a move that might have unexpected consequences since the Seattle emperor is the Redmond-rival, Microsoft. The Seattle ...

17 August 2007
04:55 GMT

Google For Students = El Dorado for Treasure Hunters

The Mountain View company is not only the owner of the best search engine on the Internet but also the most attractive place to work for most of the students from every corner of the world. If you don't believe me, you should because this statement was revealed by a new research conducted by the Swedish firm Uni...

16 July 2007
16:26 GMT


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