En décidant le 12 janvier de ne plus respecter la censure qui lui ouvre les portes du marché chinois, fut-ce au prix de son éviction, Google pose là un ultimatum inattendu, au nom de ses valeurs éthiques. Mais l’entreprise, qui se trouve isolée dans cette position, aura du mal à peser sur les choix politiques [...]

To be clear, after what Google called a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack,” Google is now going to review their options when it comes to China, starting with the new policy to cease the government mandated censorship on Google.cn. If that cannot happen, Google is gone. In a statement, Google said they were not alone [...]

Google has unveiled a tool that lets scientists and defenders of the environment use the internet to keep an eye on what is left of the Earth’s forests. ‘We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests,’ Rebecca Moore and Amy Luers of the US internet giant’s philanthropic arm Google.org [...]

Google has unveiled its Google Earth Pro software to coincide with the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. The software is available through the Google Earth Outreach Program, which lets local NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) and other public-benefit organizations visualize their projects and demonstrate their impact.”With the launch of Google Earth Outreach in Africa, [...]

Google, which has always been widely lauded for their human rights awareness, has okayed a policy change prohibiting AdWords promoting abortion in 15 countries. I’ve recently come across this article about Google Inc. issuing an AdWords advertising policy update stating it would no longer accept ads that promote abortion services in the following fifteen countries: [...]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a group of human rights and public interest organizations plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion. The principles are the starting point for a new effort, called the Global Network Initiative, which commits the [...]

Le moteur de recherche sur internet Google, la première banque européenne HSBC et le câblo-opérateur Liberty Global se sont associés dans un projet destiné à fournir un accès internet haut débit à faible coût à trois milliards de personnes vivant en Afrique et dans d’autres pays émergents. Le projet, baptisé O3b Networks, vise la connexion [...]

Just days before the Olympic torch will reach Beijing, Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the Internet.Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday released separate letters from the companies, stating they have “reached agreement on [...]

A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday is expected to question a Cisco Systems Inc. executive about an internal 2002 document that includes a reference to censoring “hostiles” in describing the Chinese government’s technology position and goals. Representatives from Cisco, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary’s human rights subcommittee, which [...]

Gordon Brown plans to harness at least 20 of the world’s biggest multinational companies, including Google and Vodafone, to tackle a “development emergency” in the world’s poorest countries and put the international community back on course to achieve seven UN development goals by 2015. As a UN report released today shows limited progress in hitting [...]