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Big Tent Tunisia: Free Expression in the Arab World
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The Internet has spawned an explosion of online communication, allowing those who were silenced to finally speak up. During the Arab Spring, the Web became as a tool for expressing dissent and organizing demonstrations. Signs of a backlash are now em...
Iranian phishing on the rise as elections approach
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For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of thousands of Iranian users. These campaigns, which originate from within Iran, represent a significant...
Thirty ideas to change the world: EMEA Science Fair finalists
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Many great scientists developed their curiosity for science at an early age and in January we called on the brightest young minds from around the world to send us their ideas to change the world. Our 2013 Google Science Fair attracted an exciting and...
How green is the Internet?
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More than ever, people are using the Internet to shop, read, listen to music and learn. And businesses rely on Internet-based tools to operate and deliver their services efficiently. The Internet has created all kinds of new opportunities for society...
Remembering WEIZAC: the beginning of computing in Israel
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Israel is now one of the world’s tech powerhouses, second only to Silicon Valley as a hub for startups, but it wasn’t always this way. Today, in honour of the 84th birthday of Professor Aviezri Fraenkel, we’re delighted to share a...
What the...?
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Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog Dear Google users You may be aware of press reports alleging that Internet companies have joined a secret U.S. government program called PRISM to give the National Security Agency direct access to our server...
Creating jobs in Europe’s industrial heartland
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It was a standing room only crowd. More than 400 Belgians, including Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, small business owners, teachers and students, recently jammed into the Mundaneum museum’s headquarters in Mons near our St. Ghislain data center.
Promoting a Safe Web in Brussels - and throughout Europe
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As a mum of two energetic and curious kids, I love to see how the Internet helps them learn, share and be entertained. Like any parent, I also understand how the Internet can become an overwhelming place and that, as in real life, includes bad actors...
Honoring Czech and Slovak digital journalism
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Throughout Europe, we’re working with journalists to encourage the transition from paper to digital distribution. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, we support the digital journalism awards to honor the best quality digital articles, and we&rs...
Powering our Finnish data center with Swedish wind energy
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What do a Swedish wind farm developer, a German insurance company and Google’s Finnish data center have in common? As of today, a lot. We’ve just inked agreements with O2 and Allianz to supply our Finnish data center with renewable energ...
Debating Internet Freedom in Warsaw
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It was a scintillating debate in a pivotal country for Internet Freedom. In the auditorium of Poland’s prestigious newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, renowned Oxford professor and writer Timothy Garton Ash hosted Digitisation Minister Michal Boni, Gaze...
Expanding Google Business Photos in Europe
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Want to show off appealing images of your business? We've just expanded Google Maps Business Photos program to six new European countries including: Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Switzerland. The Business Photos program...
Investing in a South African solar energy project
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As we search for investments that can help speed up the adoption of renewable energy, we’ve been looking beyond the U.S. and Europe to parts of the world where our investments can have an even greater impact. We’ve just closed our first i...
Launching TabletCafés in Senegal
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Easy to use tablets are a great way of introducing new users to the Internet. But for most Africans, the hardware remains too expensive. We've come up with a potential solution, making them available in cybercafés. The Equinox cybercaf&e...
Bringing bike directions to more of Europe
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Back in 2012, we added biking directions to our maps for a number of countries in Europe. It proved to be a popular feature among cycling amateurs and enthusiasts. We're now delighted to announce that we are now enabling biking directions in Google M...
Looking to the future at the UK’s Big Tent
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We spend a lot of time at Big Tent events discussing the opportunities and challenges of today’s Internet. At our third UK Big Tent this week we took a broader view, exploring how the innovation of today is poised to reshape the world in 10 ye...
Vote in Britain’s Global Impact Challenge
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A couple weeks ago, we launched our first Global Impact Challenge in the UK, inviting British non-profits to tell us how they would change the world using technology. Hundreds of non-profits submitted entries, and over the past few weeks we’ve...
Mario Testino to "The Scream" via Mark Rothko
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Every day on the Art Project Google+ page we post a snippet of information about a painting, an artist or a talk—and every day, at least one of our 4 million followers has something to say in response. We’re constantly delighted by how th...
Something’s starting in the Copenhagen media industry
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Put 100 talented and enthusiastic people in a room for a weekend, and you’ve got the perfect ingredients for innovation, according to Startup Weekend. This was the principle behind a recent gathering in Copenhagen, which sought to inject fresh...
Kenyan health project captures One Media digital award
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How can digital media communicate critical sexual health messages? That’s the challenge undertaken by this year’s winner of the Google-supported One World Media Awards Digital Media Award winner, Jongo Love. Jongo Love tells the stories...
