Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
Posted by Katie Hotchkiss, Online Sales
and Operations Manager
Last week at the annual meeting of our Online Sales and Operations
(OSO) organization, a group of us (1,211 Googlers from around the
world, to be exact) made an attempt to set a new
, but it
is the first time
we've attempted to bake our way to a new record.
The event brought our teams together, united around something we
all love: good food. We decorated a total of 171 cakes, using 800
pounds of butter cream and 500 pounds of fondant along the way. In
addition to this fun foray into the sugar arts, the two-day
conference featured a keynote speech by Al Gore, workshops with
faculty from the Harvard Business School, and several panels on
industry trends, including one on bloggers moderated by
href="http://allthingsd.com/about/kara-swisher" >
href="http://allthingsd.com/about/kara-swisher" >Kara
Swisher.
Check out this video of the day:
We'll report back if (and hopefully when) we hear the news from
Guinness.
Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 @ 2:54 am
Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group
Product Manager
Over the past few years, the Chinese stock markets have grown at a
breathtaking pace. Not surprisingly, investors have demanded more
access to data and information about Chinese stocks, particularly
in real time. Google Finance has heard the clamor, and we're
pleased to be able to improve our service for the Shanghai and
Shenzhen stock exchanges by providing pricing data in real time. So
if you're interested in
href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=SHE:000878" >Yunnan
Copper,
href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=SHA:601988" >Bank of
China, or you just want to search around, enjoy the additional
data on Google
Finance.
Now that the Chinese stock data is live, we're hoping our
friends at the SEC will take note and approve the last sale
proposal
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/real-time-quotes-for-free.html" >
we announced in January. This proposal would allow us to offer
our users free and unlimited access to real-time last sale prices
for NYSE and Nasdaq stocks. As soon as the SEC approves, we'll
flip the switch.
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