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This section offers global financial and banking news briefs as of February 25, 2015. Topics discussed include British bank HSBC's lower financial earnings in 2014, financial institutions such as JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank that are being investigated by U.S. regulators for alleged price-fixing in the precious metals market, and Internet company Google's partnership with mobile wallet company Softcard and several U.S. telecommunication companies such as T-Mobile and AT&T.

Reports on the partnership of search engine Google Inc. with universities to provide a way of searching the institutions' collections of scholarly papers. Information included in the archives.

This article focuses on Google Inc. It was the day before Sergey Brin's 30th birthday, and by all rights he should have been on top of the world. Here onstage in front of some 300 peers--engineers and other geeks attending a conference on Internet search--he was answering softball questions about Google, the search-engine company he co-founded five years ago. Google's search service has changed the way everyone from chief executive officers (CEO) to their teenagers look for and think about information, dominating search not just from its own site but also as the engine for major sites like Yahoo, America Online (AOL), and Amazon. Barring any last-minute exception, by April 30, 2004, the company will be required to start publishing its financials--a Securities and Exchange Commission rule for firms with as many shareholders or option holders as Google has. So, the thinking goes, why not make a virtue of that loss of secrecy by raising buckets and buckets of cash?--as much as $2 billion, as analysts currently predict. A Google initial public offering (IPO) of that size would be the largest by any startup in high-tech history and would probably value the company at about $20 billion, just a couple billion dollars north of what Google valued itself for when it proposed using stock to acquire social-networking site Friendster last summer. Executives at America Online, Google's biggest partner, accounting for roughly 10% of its revenue, have in meetings expressed concern that Google has become too powerful to keep as a partner, according to a high-level financier who was a party to the conversations.

The article reports on the partnership of Internet search company Google with other publishers and technology businesses to form the Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA) to address language hurdle facing the Digital India plan of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase Internet penetration. It rises concern about Indian consumers' lack of English proficiency and few available Hindi content and informs about Google's plan to tie up with smartphone makers to install Hindi keyboards.

(Bloomberg) -- Google unfurled an expansive range of consumer products and gee-whiz research at the kickoff of its marquee annual conference, with announcements spanning quantum computing, garrulous bots, automated photo animations and dermatology screenings. Samsung partnership: Google is teaming up with Samsung on Wear, Google's software platform to convince more people to buy Android smartwatches. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the possibility of the partnership of Google Inc. with newspapers. Greg Harmon, chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director of Belden Interactive, explained that Google can partner with newspapers because of its behavioral targeting (BT) initiative. Greg Swanson, founder and CEO of ITZ Publishing, said that newspapers must employ an agency model and use Google as its tool kit. The company has launched its Adwords program to the once-ad free Google News.

The article reports on the launch by search giant Google of an initiative to make articles from old newspapers accessible online by partnering with media publishers to digitize their paper archives in the U.S. The company said the project is a extension of a 2006 partnership to digitize content from "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post." Through the partnership with various newspapers, Google hopes to digitize millions of pages of news archives, including photos, articles, headlines, and advertisements.

The article reports on the partnership between Google and 17 schools for a pilot program to enable searching among DSpace repositories, in July 2004. DSpace is an open-source software designed to assist colleges and universities in creating, managing, and maintaining digital repositories. There are currently about 125 schools using this software, but no tool existed that enabled searching across repositories instead of just within them. The number of documents available for searching has been one point of contention for DSpace. Each of the 17 participants had an average of 1,000 papers in its digital archive. While some universities had considerably more than 1,000 documents, most hovered around 100 and many had considerably fewer. Universities involved in the project are: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Australian National University, Canberra; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Cranfield University, England; European University Institute, Domenico DiFies, Italy; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China; Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; Minho University; Ohio State University, Columbus; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of Calgary, Atlanta; University of Oregon, Eugene; University of Parma, Italy; University of Rochester, New York; University of Toronto, Ontario; University of Washington, Seattle; and University of Wisconsin.

The article focuses on Media Topics and Photo Metadata standards from the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the global standards body of news media. It mentions that Internet firm Google partnered with IPTC and Schema.org to create licensable badges in Google Images, and Google introduced a licensable-images feature based on two IPTC Photo Metadata properties.

The article focuses on the partnership of technology company Apple with its competitors Amazon, Google, Microsoft in artificial intelligence (AI). It informs that the partnership announcement in January 2016 was followed by the selection of Tom Gruber, chief technical officer (CTO) of Apple, to the board. It offer Gruber's views on opportunities and concerns created with advancement of machine learning and AI.

The article reflects on some issues related to the Google Book Search digitization project. As it speeds up its formation of library partnerships, Google has begun targeting portions of collections, aiming at areas that will not overlap with what they have already gathered or at partners who complement collections already in the pipeline. The National Archive Publishing Co. has announced a program to digitize 40 million pages of reports entered into the Educational Resources Information Center in the U.S.

The article discusses the partnerships entered by Google Inc.'s the life sciences division, with drug maker Sanofi and measurement devices and medical device maker Dexcom to digitize diabetics efforts to manage diabetes and keep glucose levels under check by regulating food intake.Statement of Google Life Sciences chief Andy Conrad is also given.

The article reports that ProQuest LLC has formed a partnership with Google Inc. to bring pages of newspaper content to the open web. As reported, the program allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers. In this way these newspapers will be digitized and their content will be delivered through Google's platform supported by a variety of advertising and e-commerce models that are standard in an open web context. The work on this partnership is expected to commence soon.

The article reports that PSCU Financial Services Inc. is partnering with Google Inc. for the development of Google Wallet available to credit unions (CUs).

The article discusses the decision of Google Inc. to increase its spectrum within the television industry, as well as its effect on information technology industry. It mentions that Google's decision to penetrate within the television industry attracted small and big companies. It notes that google partnered with SnapStream Media Inc., which claimed it allows integration with Google OneBox software that monitors and responds to the company's television coverage.

The article reports that Google Inc. has a partnership agreement with Mortech LLC to offer information on potential mortgage loans to mortgage banks through searches by potential borrowers on its Web search engine. The agreement poses a competitive threat to Lending Tree LLC, the leader in the so-called "mortgage lead" business.

Presents marketing-related news briefs. Value of the sponsorship deal between alt-rock station WFNX and Snapple; Partnership between MySpace.com and "Nylon" music and fashion print magazine for a digital version of the magazine's June-July issue identical to the print version; Service announced by Google Inc. that places video commercials on Web sites where it already sells advertising space.

The article reports on Google's move to place its consumer funds-on-deposit into bank accounts protected by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Topics include Google Wallet's partnerships with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, its acquisition of the Softcard wallet app, and its development of an online bill payment system called Pony Express. It also discusses Wallet Balance funds, Apple Pay, and the Bluebird prepaid card of American Express.

The article reports on Oregon Employees Federal Credit Union's (OEFCU) decision to transfer from Microsoft Corp. to Google Inc. for business enterprise collaboration in Salem, Oregon. Otto Radke, information technology (IT) vice president of the credit union, mentions their preference over the latter due to its low cost services. It also notes its applications which allow the banking company to gain access to the world wide web for creating and saving documents.