Part of the productivity debate is philosophical. For example, one question pertains to the increased use of free digital services such as Facebook, Google Maps, Waze and Khan Academy. These services yield “consumer surplus,” defined as the benefits consumers derive from various activities over and above the

and product teams globally across all product areas. She led many of the company’s early acquisitions, including Keyhole (Google Earth), Where2Tech (Google Maps) and Picasa. Megan also led the Google.org team transition to expand and innovate engineering based projects including Google Crisis Response, Google

This app supports up to 6 users (paid version is unlimited) and integrates with Twitter and Facebook. GPS Tracking populates your phone’s built- in Google Maps with the locations of people in your private opt-in buddy list. You can let users HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018135 --- PAGE BREAK --- know where you are or

ms to be doing so, it’s also that as more users weave themselves into each others’ lives and the machines into too, these nodes of power get smarter. Google Maps can predict the fastest route from your house to your office because it can watch the movements of hundreds of millions of users, each silently pingi

r to determine the unfinished project was a racket - the agency's local office sits directly across the street from the Royal Palm site, according to Google Maps. "It's remarkable... These cases come and go, and there is no reform," said Gibson, who cited "egregious misuse of funds [while] the industry continu