Thursday, October 4, 2012

Ch. 5 - Developing a Global Vision


Google's chief executive stated in Berlin that the company plans to extend its Web television service, Google TV, 1from US viewers to global consumers starting in 2011. Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest television manufacturer, said that it will make sets run by Google’s TV android software to compete with Sony and Apple in the market for televisions that can access the internet, movies, shows, and games online. In May 2000, Google launched the first foreign language versions starting with 10 European languages. By September of the same year, it expanded to include Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
It opened its first international office in Tokyo in August 2001, and in October 2004, it opened an office in Dublin, Ireland, It's workers were multilingual Googlers that serviced its customers across multiple time zones and languages. Google bought android in 2005, even though they didn't announce that they were going to join the mobile device market. The advantage for Google of developing an operating system, rather than a Google phone, was that many manufacturers could adopt the platform. Motorola, Samsung and LG were among the first brands to use the Android platform. As of Sept 2012 Google owns 81.8% of the search engine market share. Followed by bing with 8.37%.



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