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Industry Groups Back Google’s Effort to Block Mississippi Attorney General Inquiry
Feb 4 2015 // Computer industry groups are joining Google’s effort to block an investigation by Mississippi’s attorney general. Industry groups filed court papers on Jan. 30 saying federal law should block Attorney General...
Bloomberg: Google Is Developing Competitor to Uber
Feb 2 2015 // Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based transportation...
Chubb Reports Q4 Net Income Falls 2%; Says No Fear of ACE, Google
Feb 2 2015 // The Chubb Corp. in Warren, New Jersey, reported net income of $558 million for the 2014 fourth quarter, a 1.9 percent decrease from $569 million net income during the prior year fourth quarter. The operating income, which...
Mississippi Attorney General Asks Court to Dismiss Google Suit
Jan 22 2015 // Mississippi’s attorney general says a suit against him by Google should be dismissed. In court papers filed Jan. 12, Democrat Jim Hood claims the Internet search giant’s assertion that it is protected by...
Snow Problem When It Comes to Self-Driving Cars, Says Google
Jan 15 2015 // Google Inc. sees Detroit’s snow as a bigger barrier than Washington’s regulators for its self-driving car. The technology giant doesn’t intend to offer a self-driving car to areas where it snows in the...
California Wholesalers Stress Opportunity Theme at Convention
Jan 13 2015 // Opportunity was a theme that came up often at the annual California Wholesaler Industry Days convention from Sunday through today in La Jolla, Calif. at Hilton Torrey Pines. The three-day conference organized by the...
Google Poised to Enter U.S. Auto Insurance Market: Report
Jan 9 2015 // Giant search engine Google, which already offers auto insurance online in the United Kingdom, could soon be selling auto insurance online in the U.S. Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc., its online auto insurance...
California DMV to Miss Deadline for Autonomous Vehicle Rules
Dec 22 2014 // California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will miss a year-end deadline to adopt new rules for cars of the future because regulators first have to figure out how they’ll know whether “driverless”...
Google Targeted in Independent Contractor Classification Dispute
Nov 17 2014 // Google was sued last week by a worker who claimed the company did not pay overtime, improperly classified him as an independent contractor then terminated him after he asked for more hours to be covered under his...
Phone Apps, Facebook, Google Aid Nigerians in Time-Sensitive Fight Against Ebola
Oct 8 2014 // When Nigeria was hit by its first outbreak of the Ebola virus, health workers monitoring suspected cases armed themselves with mobile phones and an Android app that cut the time it took to report the onset of symptoms. The...
Google Liable for Damages for Celebrities’ Private Photos?
Oct 7 2014 // A lawyer who represents about a dozen female celebrities whose private photos were posted online by hackers has threatened to sue Google Inc. for failing to take the photos off its websites, according to the New York...
Negative Comments Lead Michigan Marketing Firm to Sue Client
Oct 2 2014 // A Hartland Township marketing and Web design firm sued a former client over comments it made about the company online and in a letter to a business networking group. Five Sparrows filed the defamation suit against James...
Driven to Praise After Testing Google’s Driverless Car
Aug 17 2014 // The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn’t lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was that it was utterly unremarkable. This isn’t damning with faint praise. It’s...
Smartphones Not All That Security Smart; Major Threats Revealed
Aug 8 2014 // Security researchers revealed two separate threats last week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world’s 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and, in some cases, let hackers take...
Google, Detroit Take Different Routes on Driverless Cars
Jul 1 2014 // In 2012, a small team of Google Inc. engineers and business staffers met with several of the world’s largest car makers to discuss partnerships to build self-driving cars. In one meeting, both sides were enthusiastic...
Google Loses Appeal to Supreme Court Over Email Privacy Lawsuits
Jun 30 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc., leaving the company to face lawsuits accusing it of violating a federal wiretapping law by secretly collecting personal data while developing its Street View...
Google Begins Complying with EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Ruling
Jun 26 2014 // Google has begun removing some search results to comply with a European Union ruling upholding citizens’ right to have objectionable personal information about them hidden in search engines. The so-called...
Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims in 2 Rulings
Jun 3 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against patent holders in two cases, rejecting a legal theory used to sue technology companies and requiring patents to be written with more specific language. The rulings come in a Supreme...
The Insurance Implications of Google’s Self-Driving Car
May 28 2014 // Google has announced a truly “driverless” car that lacks a steering wheel, brakes or anything else that allows a driver to control its movements. This actually strikes me as a much bigger deal for the insurance...
‘Look, Ma, No Steering Wheel’ in Google’s Autonomous Car
May 28 2014 // Google Inc. is building cars that don’t have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company’s efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small electric...