Google licenses AP and other wire content — and stiffs newspapers

Google licenses AP and other wire content — and stiffs newspapers

Google is paying to licenses content from four wire agencies and will give the wire services more play on Google News — effectively stiffing newspapers and others that Google had linked to previously.

The move is controversial, because there’s already considerable tension between Google and newspapers,… Continue Reading

Roundup: Google stealing? Goog-411, Sansa Connect and more

Roundup: Google stealing? Goog-411, Sansa Connect and more

Here’s the latest action:

Sam Zell, soon one of the largest U.S. newspaper publishers, says Google “steals” — The magnate, who recently agreed to acquire the Tribune Co., told a gathering at Stanford University Thursday: “If all the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal… Continue Reading