Thursday, November 8, 2012

Google News

  • Google's JAM with Chrome lets users play in virtual rock bands

    "If you ever dreamed of playing in a band, now's your chance to be a rock star," Google Creative Lab's marketing manager Emma Turpin wrote in a blog post today.

    news.cnet.com

  • Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon of corporate venture-capital funds. Access to that sizeable ...

    www.reuters.com

  • Google TV Music and Movies destined for UK, Canada, and more on November 13

    Earlier today, Google announced that its Google Play movies, music and TV shows will be available via Google TV in a few new countries on November 13.

    www.slashgear.com

  • Google Unveils Simpler Search Page for All Devices, Reaction Mixed

    Google had already launched a new Google Search page design that displays more cleanly on tablets and smartphones, so now the company is rolling the new design out for desktop users.

    www.eweek.com

  • Google Introduces Services for Not-So-Smart Phones in the Philippines

    Free Zone's offerings—the ability to surf websites, check Gmail and use the Google+ social-media app—is undoubtedly stripped down from the myriad of functions that smartphone users enjoy, and limited to the staple offerings that define Google. Gmail ...

    blogs.wsj.com

  • Bram Stoker Google Logo Gives Company Homepage Gothic Makeover

    Google is celebrating Irish novelist Bram Stoker's 165th birthday with a special doodle in place of its Search home page logo.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Google cleans up search page, eyes mobile users

    "Mobile is critically important," Gottheil said. "Google's raw material is the total time people spend using the Web, and an increasing percentage of that time is spent with mobile devices.

    www.computerworld.com

  • Google Nexus 4 review

    Almost like clockwork, every year around this time, Google (GOOG) introduces a new version of the company's flagship smartphone, the Nexus.

    bgr.com

  • You can replace Siri with Google's Voice Search, but there's a catch

    That said, Google's newly updated Voice Search is all kinds of awesome. It's blazing-fast, amazingly accurate, and in many ways just plain smarter than Siri.

    reviews.cnet.com

  • Google Nexus 10 spotted on Walmart shelves a few days early

    It looks like those Google Nexus 10 tablets might be shipping to retailers around the country already. If you're lucky they might be on shelves in a few local Walmart stores too.

    androidcommunity.com

  • Nate Silver now rules Google as world goes crazy for polling data cruncher

    If Silver is topping something like Google's search trends, it means he has officially crossed over from being a figure of great note to political insiders, to a full-fledged mainstream celebrity.

    www.siliconbeat.com

  • Another Google AdWords Advertiser Defeats Trademark Infringement Lawsuit

    Over the last dozen years, there have been countless trademark lawsuits over competitive keyword advertising (i.e., when a company buys its competitor's trademark to display keyword-triggered advertising).

    www.forbes.com

  • Apple and Google Lose Big Patent Cases to Trolls

    While Apple and Google (or their proxies) are fighting it out on a number of big patent battles, both companies (and basically every other successful tech company) are still facing a whole bunch of troll lawsuits.

    www.opposingviews.com

  • Google's Nexus 4: To buy or not to buy?

    I've been using the device full-time for the past week, and aside from being Google's best hardware effort to date, the Nexus 4 is hands-down the best overall Android smartphone experience and value you can get your hands on right now.

    blogs.computerworld.com

  • The Mess That Is Google Shopping

    Tweet. Google Shopping One of the things Google promised by moving Google Shopping to the pay-to-play model for merchants was how much the experience was going to improve for shoppers.

    searchengineland.com

  • Google: Chrome has gotten 26 percent faster this year

    One way Google avoids the bloat that has crippled other browsers over the years -- the company set up automated tests to notify engineers whenever a change in the code makes the browser slower, Verwaest said.

    news.cnet.com

  • Google And Amazon Fight For The Cloud Account

    With scaled clouds and connected devices, Google (GOOG) and Amazon.com (AMZN) have entered a new phase in their growing market battle, securing loyal accounts.

    seekingalpha.com

  • Google Taps Its Inner J.J. Abrams With The Niantic Project

    We have no idea what this is about either, but Google is apparently running some kind of viral marketing campaign right now that involves something called the Niantic Project.

    techcrunch.com

  • Google could feel ripple from Priceline's $1.8B Kayak acquisition

    There is one catch, though: Google owns ITA, an airfare software company that Kayak's system uses. It remains to be seen what that could mean for Kayak following the acquisition by Priceline, though.

    www.bizjournals.com

  • Google Sees Lowest Search Market Share In 5 Years In UK [Report]

    "As Google's market share dropped it was a positive month for Microsoft, Yahoo!, Ask and the all Other search engines monitored by Experian Hitwise," writes James Murray on the firm's UK blog.

    www.webpronews.com

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