Google has done a number of strategic investments over the years, and usually big amounts in big-issue-tackling companies, like powerline internet, WiMax, and others.
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Google’s Street View mapping project has got the green light from the UK’s Information Commissioner.
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Google , which in its time has ponied up cash for various start-ups, is considering making it official.
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Google Inc is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday, citing several people briefed on the discussions.
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Google is planning to start a venture-capital arm, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site Wednesday night.
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Five questions for Google’s golden girl Marrissa Mayer.
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Google has long invested in promising start-ups. So the news that the company was thinking about formalizing those efforts by creating a venture-capital arm, reported in The Wall Street Journal Thursday, was hardly surprising.
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Investing is all about timing. And Google Inc.’s possible plans, reported in The Wall Street Journal, to start up a venture capital arm seem to be at an excellent point for early stage investing, coming as some funding is drying up in Silicon Valley.
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U.K.’s privacy watchdog approves Google’s photo-mapping plans for England, saying it is “satisfied” with the safeguards in place to blur faces and license plates.