Kansa City, KS – Google announced that, after months of building its new fiber infrastructure as part of its Kansas City fiber initiative, it is now starting to connect homes. The company has informed Kansas City residents that home connection installations will take place in two stages. First, fiber from the street will be pulled to the side of each house. Then customers will be contacted to schedule the in-home installation. Google is also circulating [...]

Not long after buying Motorola primarily for the company’s patents, Google and Motorola say that the freshly-acquired company will be cutting 20% of their workforce, or about 4,000 jobs. Google insists the cuts are the beginning of their attempt to re-invent Motorola, which has lagged in the battle against other manufacturers like Apple and Samsung in the smartphone arena. Google’s house cleaning has included the executive level, where the company has jettisoned forty percent of [...]

Google Fiber in Kansas City isn’t even up and running yet, but the company says they’re already targeting areas for expansion of the project. According to a post at the company blog, the company is now planning to install Google Fiber in the cities of Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Woods, Kansas — provided Google sees approval from city councils. “To be clear, this does not change the construction schedule for eligible homes in Kansas [...]

With T-Mobile and Sprint users already enjoying their Samsung Galaxy Nexus III’s, and AT&T set to get the devices today, Verizon appears to have accelerated their timeline for their recently proclaimed July 10 arrival date. Some users who pre-ordered the devices say they already started receiving the devices yesterday, despite next weeks official launch date. It’s unclear if Verizon accelerated the deployment to keep pace with AT&T, or whether Verizon and Samsung may have speed [...]

As we noted yesterday the White House introduced a new privacy bill of rights which consists largely of a bunch of initiatives started by industry in the hopes of pre-empting real privacy regulations. The completely voluntary measures include adding “do not track” functionality to browsers, something Mozilla noted this week they’ve been doing for some time. Mozilla makes some not-so-subtle jabs at Google for not-yet offering the functionality via Chrome, since Google’s primary game is [...]

It’s hard to suffer a technical delay when you’ve consistently been a little murky about when your service will be up and running, but Google appears to be running into a few snags in Kansas City over fiber deployment. According to the Kansas City Star, Google is running behind schedule in part due to a debate over precisely how they’ll hang fiber lines on area utility poles. Google originally suggested to locals they’d start signing [...]

While the title is troll bait (especially coming from an Apple brand fanatic), blogger-turned-VC Paris Lemon makes a few good points in a post over at his blog about how Google has failed in delivering their original Android vision when it comes to truly open platforms. Most of his tirade touches on things we’ve discussed over the years, like how Google’s original plan to use the Nexus to completely revolutionize the wireless industry flopped, or [...]

Google TV has many of the same goals as Apple TV, namely to provide a simpler interface, a new way to discover great web and TV content. Google TV wants to provide a more TV-like YouTube experience, while Apple TV aims to do the same for iTunes and other content. Google says it now has more than 150 apps which developers have specifically built for TV. Up to this point, Apple TV and Google TV [...]

Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility has been stalled in Europe Google’s takeover of Motorola Mobility has hit a stumbling block as the European Commission (EC) has suspended its review of the merger. An EC spokesperson confirmed to Telecoms.com that it “needs certain documents from Google that are essential to its evaluation of the transaction”. The EC was set to make a decision on Google’s bid to acquire the business on January 10, but has suspended [...]

Last week, Google acquired a social analytics company called SocialGrapple. Google has not disclosed any other information on the acquisition other than that the company’s founder is joining Google. SocialGrapple was created by Andrey Petrov. Petrov describes the software as a Twitter analytics tool that tracks changes in a user’s social graph. The software also sends users interactive charts and reports reflecting on the data. Though Google has not revealed any further information about the [...]