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News archives for the week of October 2, 2006
October 5, 2006
Google expects more competition on wireless sponsered search
NTT DoCoMo's competitors have struck more exclusive deals. Softbank Corp. is
teaming with Yahoo, while KDDI Corp. is partnering with Google. Google quietly
launched its own sponsored-search effort for U.S. wireless users in September.
October 4, 2006
Google's new Manhattan offices are for its employees, not for a new data center
The idea is that Google could connect its servers directly into the fiber-optic communications
network at 111 Eighth Ave., allowing the company to bypass networks owned and operated by the phone
companies. For the past couple of years, Google has been buying "dark," or unused, fiber-optic
cabling across the country. It is also helping fund and build wireless access networks in several
cities, including Mountain View and San Francisco.
October 3, 2006
Google goes back to its roots
The company's astounding growth has imbued its birthplace with the same kind of mystique
attached to other hallowed Silicon Valley spots like the Palo Alto garage where Hewlett-Packard
Co. started in 1938 and the Los Altos garage where Steve Jobs and his partner Steve Wozniak
first began to build Apple computers in the 1970s. HP paid $1.7 million for 12-by-18-foot
garage that co-founder William Hewlett first rented for $45 per month.
October 2, 2006
New equity financing for controversial Pay-per-Post.com
Dan Rua from Inflexion and Michael Barach from Villiage Ventures will take board seats. Josh
Stein from Draper Fisher Jurvetson will become a board observer. Rob Hof from BusinessWeek spoke
to founder Ted Murphy and DFJ’s Josh Stein earlier Monday about the financing and the product in
general.
