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Facebook To Allow Location Sharing
15th March 2010
The New York Times reports that Facebook is getting ready to allow location sharing between friends. More »
Google Testing TV Search
11th March 2010
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network. More »
Google Launches Public Data Visualisation Tool
9th March 2010
Almost exactly 3 years ago, in March 2007, Google acquired Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software. They have now put this technology to use and released it in the public domain. More »
YouTube Revenue Estimated $1 Billion
8th March 2010
Google’s studied secrecy about the revenue generated by their video site, YouTube, only fuels further curiosity and speculation on the subject. The latest to offer an opinion and some estimated figures on the topic is Mark Mahaney of the Citigroup. More »
Google Takes Picnik Away From Yahoo!
2nd March 2010
Google announced yesterday that they have acquired the photo editing site Picnik right from under Yahoo!’s nose, while Yahoo! seems to have done nothing about it! More »
Are Google Employees Responsible For YouTube Content?
25th February 2010
Three executives of Google have been convicted by a court in Milan, Italy over the screening of a video in 2006. The video in question was of an autistic teenager being bullied. More »
Google Building Experimental Broadband Network
18th February 2010
Google has recently announced that they are planning to build a new experimental high speed broadband network across a few locations in the U.S.A. More »
Google Buzz Makes Gmail More Social
16th February 2010
As social networks and other forms of online communications continue to expand, Google has launched a new service to try and do their bit to help users enjoy and share their online experiences better. More »
Yelp Turned Down Microsoft Too
11th February 2010
About two months ago, when Yelp turned down an offer from Google, there had been speculation that Yelp had received a counter offer from Microsoft. More »
Google Creates Store Views (To Help Burglars?)
10th February 2010
Not satisfied with the success and controversy raised by Street Views on Google Maps, the search engine is now rumoured to be in the process of developing a feature called Google Store Views. More »
Google Planning App Store
5th February 2010
Undisclosed sources at Google have revealed to the New York Times that Google is planning to set up their own online store, to sell business applications. More »
Google Offers Glimpse Of Chrome OS For Tablets
3rd February 2010
Since Apple launched the iPad last week, their newly-turned rival, Google, certainly cannot afford to be far behind. There has been a lot of speculation lately about what the tablet version of Google’s Chrome OS will eventually look like when it is released. Google has now offered a first-hand look at it. More »
Click To Call On Mobile Local Ads
2nd February 2010
Google mobile advertising has for a long time included the option for advertisers to run pay per call campaigns where users can click to call a number. Google AdWords has now added the ability for advertisers to run pay per call campaigns via local search ads on mobile. More »
How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
Is Microsoft Following Google’s Footsteps In Mobile?
25th January 2010
All along, Microsoft has always maintained that as far as mobile phones are concerned, they are more interested in providing software solutions rather than hardware. Now, however, if reports from All Things Digital are to be believed, Microsoft is in the process of making their own phone, and is expected to launch it within this quarter. More »
AOL Ranked Top US Ad Network
22nd January 2010
According to data released by comScore, AOL Advertising was the top ad network in the USA in December 2009. ComScore’s reasearch results show that AOL Advertising had access to 187 million U.S. Internet users. More »
Microsoft Plans To Make Hay While Google Battles China
20th January 2010
Following Google’s recent declaration that the search engine might pull out of China if it is not allowed to show uncensored search results, the spotlight has also fallen on rival, Microsoft, who has also started operations in China. More »
Google Docs Launches File Storage Facility
15th January 2010
Over the next few weeks, Google will start rolling out a new feature to enhance the online file storage capacity on Google Docs. More »
Google China Backtracks On Censorship Decision
14th January 2010
Following a spate of highly sophisticated and targeted attacks on Google’s infrastructure, which originated from China, Google has decided to review their business operations in that country. More »
Nexus One Already Showing Google’s Weakness
11th January 2010
Less than a week after Google released their new phone, the Nexus One, customers are already having trouble with it and Google’s customer support is failing. More »
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