Google boosts London's Silicon Roundabout from BBC News reports Google has signed a ten year deal to lease the entire top floor of the seven floor building in what is known as the Silicon Roundabout. The Silicon Roundabout currently has about 300 firms in the area and it is located in the Old Street area in the UK on Bonhill Street. Google is leasing the space to provide "assistance to new technology companies" according to BBC News. A Google spokesperson said they will host "a range of activities, such as speaker series, hackathons, training workshops and product demonstrations" as well as [...]

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Google's Growth Unsettles Mountain View by the Wall Street Journal reports on the tension growing between Google and the city they have grown up in, Mountain View. As Google continues to grow and require more space, Mountain View needs to expand with them. City council member Laura Macias told the Wall Street Journal "we may not develop as much as Google wants." Mountain View is a region that has lots of greener, wildlife and is not city-like. Google is interested in building bridges, recreation facilities, corporate housing and more offices. This will result in high density pop [...]

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Mercury News reports Google entered an agreement to lease an additional campus with nine building and up to 630,000 additional square feet of space in Mountain View. The new building is right across Highway 101. "We had two other major companies interested in our project, and we had been in discussions with them for several months, and then Google came along and was much more intense," said John Lovewell, partner with Keenan Lovewell Ventures, the owner of "The Quad" campus on Ellis Street. "They were ready to make a commitment -- a specific commitment -- very quickly, and that's why w [...]

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Mercury News reports Google is planning on building their own office building, which can fit up to 600,000 square feet of office space. Google's current space is pretty much as capacity now and Google is looking to pay the city of Mountain View $30 million to lease 9.4 acres near Shoreline Boulevard, according to Mercury News. Google has never built their own office buildings from the ground up. They have built data centers, but not office space. Google hired leading architects firm Ingenhoven Architects, a German based company who is known for building buildings that are green and [...]

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The Hollywood Reported reports Google is opening an office in Beverly Hills, California. Google is opening a 13,465-square-foot office, which will be the space used by Google's entertainment division. That includes some of the YouTube staff and others involved in that area. The location is at 331 Foothill Rd, Beverly Hills and the move is expected by the end of the year. The lease deal is for 11-years and valued at $6.3 million. Google has plans on YouTube to push it's own original content soon. And Google is working hard on expanding their presence in Hollywood and the enter [...]

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