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Targeting to cease employees leak to Facebook, Google has started offering money to keep its best workers. 

It’s well known that over the recent months, Facebook has been working hard to recruit talent from Google. Thus, Android Product Manager Erick Tseng left Google for Facebook.

Google, Arcade Fire and director Chris Milk have partnered to launch a project that combines one of the band's new songs with images of the viewer's childhood home and bits of video. Titled "The Wilderness Downtown” the project will run perfectly only via the Google browser Chrome. Besides, users will have to close other programs too as the media show is very processor consumptive.

Google is participating in a provision of affordable housing for low-income families. U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC), a division of U.S. Bank, announced it will manage an $86 million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) fund for Google. The fund will be a major source of funding for the construction and operation of 480 affordable rental housing units for low income families and senior citizens in seven communities throughout the West and Midwest, U.S. Bank says.

On its official blog Monday the search giant Google announced the revamped version of its Gmail Inbox. Now users have the option to automatically filter their messages separating the most important from those which we rarely read.

The new option dubbed as Priority Inbox was introduced as a beta. It offers filtering algorithms that "help you see the emails that matter faster" – without the need to set up complex filters of your own.

According to many speculations in the media Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process. There is still no confirmation of the rumors because of the running IPO process.

Skype insiders say the company hopes for a valuation of $5 billion or so, and it is likely that Cisco would bide in this range.

Google was also rumored to be sniffing around Skype, but antitrust concerns may have persuaded them not to make an actual offer.
 

As reported by the Financial Times, YouTube video-sharing website is accelerating its negotiations with Hollywood movie makers over a global pay-as-you-go video service that could be launched by the end of the year.

According to the sources familiar with the matter the new service will likely be first launched in the United States, followed by other countries over time.

Google and YouTube "talked about how many people they could steer to this ... it's a huge number," the newspaper quoted an executive with knowledge of the plans as saying.

A spokesman for Google reported that Google had acquired a social networking start-up Angstro which sorts news and information across social networks like Facebook. Angstro has developed applications to find photos on Facebook, combine Caller ID with LinkedIn profiles and other tools for Twitter.

"The struggle for open, interoperable social networks is still only just beginning," Angstro co-founder Rohit Khare said in a blog post last week.

Google did not disclose the terms of the agreement.

Google is testing a new phone service to allow users to make calls from Gmail. According to the reports from Cnet, Google is piloting a service that launches phone calls from Google Chat that is coupled with Gmail.

The new service lets users place and receive calls via a user interface that "strongly resembles" Google Voice. As reported by Cnet calls placed to US or Canadian numbers are free, with discounts on international calls.

Google was selected by the Japanese as the best brand overtaking thus Microsoft that came the second, according to the results of a major Japanese survey of corporate brand perception. The search giant continues its growth in Japan and it easily attracts more traffic monthly as compared with Microsoft web sites.

Meantime, Microsoft has held its advantageous position for years in the region due to its long history in Japan and deep ties with local IT vendors.

A UK-based SEO posted a video that shows Google is testing a new iteration of its search engine that rejiggers results pages as you type. The video suggests that Google refers to this as "streaming" search. As you key new characters into the search box – or remove characters – the entire search results page changes accordingly. "You don't even need to hit the 'Search' button anymore," says the SEO, Rob Ousbey. "Google updates the results for you while you're typing." Thus, the “Suggest” tool that has been deployed for a time so far is taken to a new level by Google.

As Digg founder Kevin Rose has announced, Apple TV, a new set-top box from Apple running iOS, will not only be out next month, but will "change everything."

As it became known, last week Adobe managed to mend two vulnerabilities in its Reader PDF viewing software. One of the vulnerability was one that went public last month at the annual Black Hat security conference.

According to a report from the sources familiar with the case Google is releasing its spec-tastic, low-cost, possibly even free Chrome OS tablet a month before Christmas. The table will likely be on sales only in the United States and those who want to purchase the device for a lower price than the iPad will have to subscribe for a Verizon airtime tariff.

The unnamed sources say that the tablet is scheduled for the launch on Friday, November 26, the day after Thanksgiving.

Security software vendor warns that a gaming app in Google’s Android Market which disguises itself as a video game in fact traces users’ whereabouts and secretly transfers the data to third parties.

The free app known as Tapsnake every 15 minutes uploads the user's GPS coordinates to a server that can be monitored by people running a separate $4.99 app known as GPS Spy, which is made by the same developer shop.

Google and other industry experts believe that the lawsuit launched by Oracle against Android is not just an attack on the search giant but it targets open source Java community.