Google Gobbles More Space In West Chelsea

Is Google about to create a city-based campus in Chelsea, much like the one it created in Mountain View, Calif.? According to real estate executives and brokers, it could be close to happening.

The California-based Internet giant has expanded its city headquarters at 76 Ninth Avenue by 49,000 square feet, increasing its total presence Read More

The Verb on Every Fingertip: Google Surfs Into the Future

Conclusive proof of Google’s ascendancy, according to received wisdom, is the fact that its name has become a verb. Becoming a noun, like Jell-O or Kleenex, is so 20th-century. A verb is unprecedented! A company with a trademark verb could practically Xerox money for its shareholders—it could Hoover up dollars.

And not just dollars: “Germans Read More