Search engine giant Google and private equity company KKR & Co. will be financing a solar power plant project for USD400 million. Six solar power plants were being built by Recurrent Energy LLC in California and Arizona.
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Google acquires robotics company Boston Dynamics
Google Inc. on Friday announced that it had completed the purchase of engineering and robotics company Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics is the eight robotics firm that the Internet giant has acquired in the last half-year.
Google as a new client sees shares of UK chip designer ARM soar
The news about Google Inc's plan to use the technology of British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc for the former's server chips had seen the latter's shares rising to as much as 5.7%.
San Francisco Bay development team launches investigation on Google barge project
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission said it will be looking into whether Google Inc had the complied with the necessary paperwork to build its barge project on Treasure Island.
US ranks 31st in Internet speed list, nationwide Google Fiber network to cost USD11 billion
According to Speedtest.net, 30 countries including Moldova and Uruguay have faster Internet than the United States. Google Inc. has began building its fiber network in Kansas. A nationwide Google Fiber rollout, however, may cost USD1 billion.
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Kenya's Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich confirms the sale of as much as USD2 billion worth of Eurobonds for the country's debt payments and energy projects.
Preliminary plans obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that one of Google's floating barges would be an interactive showroom for about a thousand visitors daily.
As mobile demand increases, so does data storage requirements so Google is now expanding its data centers in the Nordic region.
Google placed an additional EUR450 million in its data center located in Hamina, southeastern Finland.
A group of technology companies including Microsoft and Apple claimed Google had infringed one of their patents it had obtained by bankrupt mobile company Nortel.
Multiple reports said Google Inc's Nexus 5 smartphone would be unveiled today, with shipments starting on November 1.
Apple would be adding public transit directions in its Maps software soon. A job listing for a developer accidentally leaked Apple Inc's plans for its mapping software by mistake.
Google protects secret SFO bay project via confidentiality agreements as new barge shows up in Maine
Google Inc had been going to extreme lengths to keep the purpose of its new infrastructure secret. In a report by Reuters, Google Inc went to great lengths keeping its latest infrastructure project under wraps.
Google Inc had not been shy investing large amounts of capital in data centers to improve its Internet infrastructure.
