Google to build R&D center in Shanghai
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InfoWorld - Google will open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China.
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(InfoWorld) - A new report shows Baidu.com increased its share of the search market in China's top cities, while rival Google lost groundÂ despite continued heavy investments in its Chinese operations. Baidu has a 69.5 percent share of the search market in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, up 7.6 percentage points since last year, according to a report (in Chinese) by Peter Lu, managing partner and chief analyst at China IntelliConsulting Corp. (CIC). Meanwhile, Google saw its share of the market shrink, falling 1.1 percentage points to 23 percent. Google's decline was offset somewhat by improved performance among students during the most recent six months. But the company continued to lose its older, more affluent users to Baidu, the report said. These figures are likely to step up the pressure on Google China President Kai-Fu Lee to deliver results for the company. Google China has grown quickly, hiring hundreds of staff and moving into a new building close to the campus of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. But these investments have yet to deliver the hoped-for domination of China's search market and raised concerns the company expanded too fast in the country. Those concerns came to a head in April, whenÂ Google admittedÂ that a software tool released by its Chinese operations used a database developed by rival Sohu.comÂ for a competing product -- a stunning admission for a company that is widely respected for the strength of its engineering operations and the caliber of its software developers. The CIC report had some good news for Google. The company's efforts to strengthen its Chinese search capabilities are recognized by users, with 58.5 percent of respondents in a survey saying they'd noticed changes to the search engine. Of those respondents, 65.3 percent said Google's Chinese search engine had improved. Other search engines also saw their share of the search market decline. Yahoo China, which is run by Alibaba.com, saw its share drop 2.9 percentage points to 2.3 percent of the market, while Sohu.com's Sogou search engine fell 1.4 points to 1.8 percent. Â
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Google will unveil communications and productivity software aimed at businesses that will be accessible over the Internet.
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It's so big, you won't even need Google Maps to find it. Internet search engine Google Inc. has a new home in New York: a 300,000-square foot, three-floor office that covers a Manhattan city block.
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Google Inc.  and Baidu.com  Inc. , its biggest rival in China, are exploring  similar options to expand their online video services in the  world's fourth-largest economy.
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(InfoWorld) - Google touted on Thursday its building-block approach for application development, which features mashups and open source software. Mashups link different Internet applications to form a new application. They are becoming the model for developers to build applications, said Jeff Huber, Google vice president of engineering, during a keynote presentation at the Google Developer Day 2007 event in San Jose, Calif. Other building blocks in the company's application development model include ads and standards, Huber said. Google expects developers will use technologies such as a MySQL database, a Linux OS, and programming languages such as Ruby, Python, or PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). "By being able to leverage these building blocks, youâre able to create amazing applications [in] probably a tenth the time," as was previously possible, Huber said. Google with its developer tools seeks to make the Web better; this may result in boosting traffic to the Google home page but not necessarily, according to Sundar Pichai, Google director of product management. The newly announced Google Gears project, for example, involves an extension to make Web applications work offline, Pichai noted. "To us, we believe we benefit, users benefit, and everyone benefits if the Web works better," Pichai said in an interview after the morning keynote. In addition to formally unveiling Gears during the morning presentation, Huber touted two other products: Google Mashup Editor, an online editor for building mashups with a few lines of XML, and Google Mapplets, for putting online gadgets on maps. With Mapplets, an application could be built such as one that searches for hotels near an airport, according to Google. Google's free event in San Jose attracted 1,500 persons. Meanwhile, a total of 10 Google Developer Day 2007 events are being held throughout the world on Thursday, including in places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Moscow. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the company's president of technology, briefly addressed the audience in San Jose. The Internet, he said, has reached the point where systems can re-create themselves, such as a mashup editor that creates Internet applications using Internet applications. A compiler, meanwhile, can compile itself, Brin said. "For the Internet to be truly self-sustaining, you really need to get the person out of the loop, and that's why we corralled all of you here in one room today," Brin said in jest. On a more serious note, Brin thanked the audience. "We want to do as much as we can to repay the community that creates such a fantastic ecosystem for us to work in," Brin said. The explosion in interest in Google of late can be attributed to its brand awareness, said blogger Frank Taylor, author of the Google Earth Blog and an attendee in San Jose. "Obviously, they just have a huge brand awareness and an ability to reach many people through their search engine," Taylor said. Even when other companies do the same thing as Google, Google gets more attention, he said. Google also is attracting top talent, said Taylor. Huber called 2006 a spectacular year for the company, with its introduction of technologies such as its AJAX search API, the Google Web Toolkit, and Google Project Hosting.
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Cisco Systems will open a research &amp; development (R&amp;D) center in Tokyo that will focus on IP-based technologies including IPv6, multicast and wireless for both its mainstream routers and its IOS and IOS XR software.
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SHANGHAI General Motors, which has four manufacturing ventures in China, has said it will help the country&#39;s largest carmaker develop low-polluting vehicles that run on gasoline-electric engines and fuel cells.
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By de Jonquieres, Julian  CHINA Google and China Mobile are to cooperate on mobile search facilities as both continue their diversification of services in the mainland.
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Xeroxâs Palo Alto Research Center is licensing patents and technology to a well-financed start-up with the goal of building a search engine that could rival Google.
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AT&T Inc. said on Monday it will open  two new Internet data centers, one in Shanghai and the other in  Oak Brook, Illinois.
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The networking giant announces plans for its first research center in China and for a venture investment program in India.
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Web search leader Google Inc is  planning to boost its presence in China by tying up with a  Chinese online music company to provide free music downloads,  The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans toÂ make India a hubÂ for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software. Dell already has 600 engineers working in Bangalore on systems software, hardware design, and validation and testing for its enterprise products. The Bangalore facility is the company's largest R&D center outside the U.S. for enterprise products, Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's business product group, said Thursday. Other Dell R&D centers in Asia are in Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore. While the Shanghai center focuses on desktop design, the Taipei center does notebook design, and the center in Singapore works on Dell's printing and imaging products. Starting with software development in 2001, Dell has set up groups in Bangalore specialized in systems software, hardware design, and testing. The aim is to do end-to-end product development in India, said Vivek Mansingh, country manager and head of the R&D center. A dual-socket server is currently being designed entirely from India. Dell did not however disclose when the 1,000 staff would arrive at its new 200,000 square feet facility. The company has so far invested $150 million in setting up its R&D operations in India. Besides its R&D operations, Dell also runs call centers from various locations in India to support its customers worldwide. Its manufacturing plant in Chennai in south India is scheduled to start production in July.
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Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said Wednesday that some new features on the world's top search engine and other services will come from its research center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where they are on a hiring spree.
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Google  plans to enter the  online music market in China for the first time, as it steps up  its battle with local incumbent Baidu.com Inc , media  reported on Thursday. Google is expected to announce a joint  venture with Top100.cn, to allow users to listen to and  download licensed music files for free, major portal Sina.com  said, citing local newspaper reports based on sources close to  the U.S. firm.
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Software giant Microsoft Corp.   is setting up a research and development center in  Shanghai for its online MSN service, its first such center  outside the United States, sources familiar with the plan said  on Wednesday.