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...The big record companies eventually buried Napster under a mountain of lawsuits....
...The reshuffle comes ahead of Google’s first-quarter earnings on 25 April and its annual I/O developer conference on 14 and 15 May at its headquarters in Mountain View, California....
...A pair of red wing-backed armchairs sit before the window offering a view of tree branches laden with scarlet rowan berries....
...The front of the property has floor-to-ceiling windows looking out towards the Slieve Mish mountains and Kerry Head....
...Private lenders can do the diligence, make our judgment and take a long-term view.”...
...But for its Mountain View-based staff there is reportedly a “carrot” as well: dodge the commute by staying — for $99 a night — at Google’s own hotel....
...In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation...
...(Those seeking more contemporary luxury will find it at Sage Lodge — where an outdoor spa and triple-height windows offer stunning views of snow-dusted mountains — only a short drive away.)...
...The Mountain View search giant is therefore buying US specialist Mandiant for $5.4bn cash....
...On the edge of the beach was a naust — a hollow dug into the sand by Vikings to shelter a longboat....
...Mountain View-based Google announced the equity investment on Thursday alongside a broader 10-year partnership that CME chief executive Terry Duffy said “will transform derivatives markets”....
...Not all the cubs have gone on to become Vikings, Coatues or Tiger Globals....
...Best of the lot in my view is an eccentric masterpiece by Charles Holland and Grayson Perry, A House for Essex — a bizarre candy world of influences from the Vikings and Gaudi to Pop and PoMo....
...One thing is for sure: we don’t expect the Mountain View-based company to take this lightly....
...And regardless of how long a judgment takes, residents of its Mountain View headquarters will not welcome the DoJ’s intrusiveness. Big Tech has provided countless benefits to society....
...Few, except for private equity with its mountains of “dry powder”, were thinking about acquisitions. But it was nothing a bit of financial stimulus couldn’t fix....
...On the ice and oceans, and in the mountains and forests, I learnt that less can be more. Perhaps 30 was late to be coming to this realisation....
...As we headed out into the waters of Kvænangsfjord, framed by jagged, ice-encrusted black mountains, it seemed inconceivable we might find our quarry in its vastness....
...So what would Mr Walker do if there was a dispute between the Munich engineers and the head of a product line in Mountain View?...
...The collaboration between the two Alphabet companies is the fruit of more extensive partnerships between employees at DeepMind and its sister companies in Mountain View, which have previously resulted in...
...An icy pontoon leads to the main building, which resembles not so much a log jam but something from Viking times....
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...Google has some 23,000 workers in Mountain View, where it is headquartered, and will probably add another 12,000 over the next decade, according to Lenny Siegel, a former mayor....
...The role has been empty since Karim Temsamani quit in December, leaving Google to run the region – one of its biggest growth spots, and also some of its most competitive terrain – from its Mountain View...
...Helen Dietz, a principal in Mountain View, California, for the financial adviser Aspiriant, says some of her clients reserve as much as a quarter of their portfolios for investment in start-ups and other...
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