VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Google Ventures-backed search-advertising startup Trada was said to have laid off most of its staff. An unnamed source said that the company might be anticipating a sale or shutdown.

Google Inc will be increasing its marketing reach by opening Winter Wonderlabs in six cities. The outlets will feature the search giant's products like the Nexus 7, Chromebook and Chromecast.

Search engine giant Google and private equity company KKR & Co. will be financing a solar power plant project for USD400 million. Six solar power plants were being built by Recurrent Energy LLC in California and Arizona.

Kenya's Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich confirms the sale of as much as USD2 billion worth of Eurobonds for the country's debt payments and energy projects.

Preliminary plans obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that one of Google's floating barges would be an interactive showroom for about a thousand visitors daily.

As mobile demand increases, so does data storage requirements so Google is now expanding its data centers in the Nordic region.

Google placed an additional EUR450 million in its data center located in Hamina, southeastern Finland.

A group of technology companies including Microsoft and Apple claimed Google had infringed one of their patents it had obtained by bankrupt mobile company Nortel.

Multiple reports said Google Inc's Nexus 5 smartphone would be unveiled today, with shipments starting on November 1.

Apple would be adding public transit directions in its Maps software soon.

Google Inc had been going to extreme lengths to keep the purpose of its new infrastructure secret.

Google Inc had not been shy investing large amounts of capital in data centers to improve its Internet infrastructure.

A rival of Google Inc was not satisfied with the search giant's latest proposal to address antitrust complaints.

Samsung would be seeking to compete with Google Inc by developing its own version of Google Glass, according to a Korean patent filing.

Google Inc would pouring in an investment of an undisclosed amount in its data center in Hamina, Finland.