This Week in Google 260

Cable companies claims that Google threatens net neutrality, Google X to collect anonymous genetic and molecular info, Google Maps vs Foursquare, Google Voice web calls through Hangouts, and more.

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• Cable Companies: Google Threatens Net Neutrality, Not Us
• Google X project to collect anonymous genetic and molecular info from thousands to aid in detecting diseases earlier
• Google Maps challenges Foursquare with new Explore feature on Android and iOS
• Google Voice offers web-based calls through Hangouts, no G+ profile needed
• Gmail for iOS updated with ‘Insert from Drive' and ‘Save to Drive'
• Google Translate Adds Crowdsourcing Features To Improve Its Translations
• Chrome Beta for Android gets a Material Design makeover
• Spain's lower house approves tax on online news aggregators; requires paying for news snippets
• House of Lords has concluded the right to be forgotten presents Google with an "unworkable and unreasonable situation"
• Google has granted over 50% of “Right to be Forgotten” requests, over 100,000 links from 91,000 people
• Unbelievable list of questions to Google re right to be forgotten
• Sources: Google signed a deal to buy Twitch for $1B
• Chromecast has been used 400M times to ‘cast' sessions to TVs since it launched a year ago
• The Judges Approving the NSA's Surveillance Requests Keep Buying Verizon Stock
• Multiple reports say Google and Motorola are planning a Nexus phablet
• Stock Soars 30 Percent as Twitter Beats Street on Q2 User Growth, Revenue and Even Turns in a Profit
• Q&A WITH TWITTER CEO DICK COSTOLO: Why Twitter Was Able To Blow Away Expectations This Quarter
• THE LEAST TWITTER COULD DO