Well that was quick. We wrote earlier this week about Google banning pornography and sexually explicit material on Blogger. Well today the company posted on its product forums website that the decision has been reversed. Instead the company will step up enforcement against those that do not mark their blogs as adult content and those who may try to use the platform to sell porn. I think they … [Read more...]
Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play
According to a blog post on it company blog today "Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries" "In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play." "App discovery plays a critical role in driving your continued success, and over the past year Google has provided best practices to … [Read more...]
Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million
The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. It looks like Google was willing to pay over $30 Million based on the info published by ICANN today The previously high price paid for a new gTLD in an ICANN Last Resort … [Read more...]
Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn free
Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many X-rated Blogger accounts might cease to exist in the near future, as Google will no longer allow anyone to post sexually explicit or nude videos … [Read more...]
How Committed Is Google To The New gTLD Program? Applied For 101; Now Lost 29 Out of 34 Auctions
Google was the 2nd largest applicants of New gTLD's applying for 101 of them and spending $18.6 Million dollars in application fees catching the eye of many publications outside of the domain space Here, Here, and Here Non-domainer publications wrote about how Google would basically get everything they applied for basically because they could afford to. Wired.com called Google's support of … [Read more...]
Google Wins the .Moto New gTLD Beating Rightside.co (NAME) For Its Motorola Division
Google has won the rights to operate the .Moto new gTLD beating United TLD Holdings which is now Rightside.co (NAME) in what we can only assume was a private contention auction. The new domain extension .Moto was scheduled to go to a ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Google of course owns Motorola and applied for .Moto to use as a closed extension as a .Brand application more than … [Read more...]
Larry Page and Sergey Brin To Sell $4.4Billion Worth of Google Shares
Business Insider published a piece tonight that Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to be selling $4.4billion worth of their holdings in Google. This was supposedly in place as part of a liquidation plan that expired in January. In 2014 Google did participate with the overall upswing to the market as the shares were lower by $32.24 or 5.8%. After the stock sales they will still control 52% of … [Read more...]