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...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: We are moving towards a global plutocracy / From Annalisa Burello, London, UK...
...The move was sparked by backpage.com, a company that created a platform to make money from online sex trafficking and triggered a US congressional inquiry that reached damning conclusions. 21st Century...
...Kapoor has been with Google for 15 years, and spent the last five working on business development....
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...Since the EU referendum vote, Google has said that it will proceed with plans to open a new headquarters in London and almost double its headcount there....
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...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Addressing the same panel, Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, agreed a consensus was important....
...And Google does not lie down for competitors....
...this column: Google Earth fails / From Kresimir Penavic...
...Perhaps Google was just ahead of its time. Tweet the Lex team @FTLex or email on lex@ft.com...
...But the low-slung open-top vehicle’s exposure to the elements and surrounding traffic made it a commercial flop. To flout social norms is also hazardous....
...Frankly at this price it is a pick-up target for Facebook, Google or Microsoft,” he said. “But I don’t expect it to stay in the low 40s.”...
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...Ed Crooks is the Financial Times’s US industry and energy editor ed.crooks@ft.com www.ft.com/insidebusiness...
...Good domain names can still fetch big bucks, with Salesforce.com paying $1.5m for data.com earlier this week. The process for claiming these snappy domains began in December last year....
...Richard Waters is the FT’s West Coast managing editor richard.waters@ft.com...
...I googled them (yes, google v. is in the OED), but I can’t vouch for the results. Even Official Scrabble Words doesn’t tell us what “thang” and “nang” mean....
...In the most recent series of developments, BarCap, Merrill, Morgan and Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc filed suit against the site in March....
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