Google, Facebook, Twitter in Social Spat as Antitrust Probe Looms

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a new tool that allows marketers to disseminate targeted messages based on the content of users’ tweets, a technology that could help elevate Twitter’s effectiveness as an advertiser to a rarefied level demonstrated only by digital advertising leaders like Google Inc. Twitter’s advertising business is relatively modest and is likely to generate 2013 global revenue of under US$600-million, according to the consultancy eMarketer.

Google is working on a product that is similar to note-taking service, Evernote.

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If you’d come to me a few years ago and asked how you could make more money, I would have said you have two choices: Find a better-paying job or take on a second one. Now, I know better. There are plenty of ways to make some more cash without schlepping to another desk or waiting tables at night.

Google Glass, the search giant's Internet-connected headset, is getting a lot of buzz outside the company. It's also been getting a lot of buzz inside the company, with engineers and product people vying to get a spot on the team.

The end is near! No, we’re not talking about the Mayan apocalypse, but rather the federal government’s nearly two-year antitrust investigation of Internet search giant Google. The Federal Trade Commission and the Web titan are nearing a deal that would end the government’s probe into allegations that Google has used its search market power to harm rival companies unfairly, according to multiple reports. Google is poised to offer a set of voluntary concessions addressing complaints about its search practices, according to a D.C. source fanilar with the matter.

With the clock ticking down until a crucial Federal Trade Commission vote over whether to sue Google for antitrust violations, the search giant’s CEO Larry Page met with federal officials in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. The meeting, which was first reported by Bloomberg, came one day after a powerful U.S. Senator sent a letter to the FTC expressing concern about the way the agency has been conducting its investigation. The FTC is wrapping up a nearly two-year investigation into whether Google has used its search market power to unfairly harm rival companies.

About six miles south of the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., is the town of Cupertino. And that's where Chinese search company Baidu is opening a new office that will be home to something called The Institute of Deep Learning.