Conor Dougherty

Conor Dougherty

Conor Dougherty

Alphabet's 'moonshot factory' promises the moon

Updated On: 25 Jul 2016 | 1:13 AM IST

App makers reach out to the teenager on mobile

Teenagers love Instagram, the photo-sharing app, but are terrified their posts will be ignored or mocked

Updated On: 04 Jan 2016 | 3:15 AM IST

Publishers straddle the Apple-Google, app-web divide

Publishers tend to use apps to cater to the most loyal users and use the web to be found by new readers

Updated On: 20 Oct 2015 | 12:42 AM IST

Google, Twitter and publishers join hands for faster web

Google is working to create a web link and article storage system that would load online articles in a few milliseconds

Updated On: 12 Sep 2015 | 9:38 PM IST

Uber missed criminal records of drivers, prosecutors assert

As Uber has pushed its service into cities ar, often not waiting for permission from local regulators, it has faced hostility from local taxi drivers who fear it is undercutting their business

Updated On: 21 Aug 2015 | 1:05 AM IST

Conor Dougherty: Google reorganises to keep lead as innovator

The Silicon Valley behemoth gets a new name, Alphabet, to get a handle on the sprawl of businesses it has entered

Updated On: 11 Aug 2015 | 10:45 PM IST

Start-ups try to challenge Google, at least on mobile search

Lo is the founder of Vurb, a start-up in San Francisco's bustling downtown that has a new kind of search engine meant for mobile phones

Updated On: 01 Aug 2015 | 12:35 AM IST

Amit Singhal reinventing Google for a mobile world

As people spend more time on mobile devices, competitors are popping up and Google is slipping in its position as gateway to the internet

Updated On: 11 Jul 2015 | 2:04 AM IST

'Google adventurer' dies on Mount Everest

Updated On: 27 Apr 2015 | 2:33 AM IST

Jay Edelson, the lawyer who may be tech's least friended man

Edelson is full of self-deprecating comments about how he is "not technologically savvy at all" and that his move into privacy law was "a total accident"

Updated On: 06 Apr 2015 | 12:51 AM IST

Wall St stars join Silicon Valley gold rush

One of the country's largest banks, Morgan Stanley, is losing its chief financial officer to Google in the most visible example yet of the flow of talent from Wall Street to Silicon Valley

Updated On: 25 Mar 2015 | 11:56 PM IST

Google plans new HQ, a city fears being overrun

Updated On: 27 Feb 2015 | 12:07 AM IST

Hoping Google's lab is a rainmaker

Last month, after years of promotion, Google ended a test trial of its internet-connected glasses, called Glass

Updated On: 17 Feb 2015 | 12:46 AM IST

Hoverboard? Not too far away

Updated On: 07 Feb 2015 | 12:03 AM IST

Conor Dougherty: Google hopes to take the web directly to billions lacking access

With satellites, solar-powered drones and a growing collection of devices in the sky, Google believes it can spread the internet to underserved areas around the world

Updated On: 22 Jan 2015 | 11:21 PM IST

SpaceX gets $1-billion investment from Google and Fidelity

The move could help Google achieve its aim of bringing satellite internet to remote corners of the world

Updated On: 22 Jan 2015 | 1:18 AM IST

Apps take over Google space

As people spend more time on their mobile devices and in their apps, their Internet has taken a step backward

Updated On: 07 Jan 2015 | 12:03 AM IST

What's next for Google, ask analysts

Updated On: 18 Oct 2014 | 12:42 AM IST