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Google spruces up mobile maps for Android devices to thwart Apple challenge ...
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Google's mapping service for mobile devices is getting an upgrade as the Internet search leader braces for new competition from iPhone maker Apple. The improvements center on listings for public transportation options in nearly 500 ...
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Google Apps Take Over As Postini Security Retired
InformationWeek
Come 2013, Google will retire its Postini-branded enterprise messaging services, since it will have been fully integrated into Google Apps. "Since we acquired Postini, we've been working toward integrating its security and compliance capabilities ...
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Did Yelp and TripAdvisor Push Google to Compete?
New York Times (blog)
The news that Google would be publishing travel reviews set competing online review companies, like Yelp and TripAdvisor, on edge. Shares of Yelp are down 14 percent since Google's announcement and shares of TripAdvisor are down 3 percent.
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New York Times (blog)
Google's Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small
Wired News
He's the CEO of Cloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source software platform based on tech that turned Google into the most dominant force on the web. Hadoop is expected to fuel a $813 million software market by the year 2016.
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Walmart, Target Challenge Google, Square as Mobile Payments Heat Up
TIME
Walmart, Target Challenge Google, Square as Mobile Payments Heat Up. Retail titans like Walmart, Target and Best Buy are challenging tech upstarts like Google, Paypal and Square for advantage as the mobile payments space heats up. By Sam Gustin ...
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TIME
Samsung E-Mails Show Google Asked Devices Not Mimic Apple
Businessweek
Google Inc. (GOOG) asked Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) to change the design of its phones and tablets to look less like Apple Inc.'s devices, according to e-mails shown to a jury at a trial between Apple and Samsung. Harold McElhinny, a lawyer ...
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Google Boosts Bug Bounties as Fewer Chrome Flaws Found
eWeek
Google is raising the payouts to researchers in an attempt to get them to dig deeper into the code and find flaws, said Chris Evans, engineering manager for Google's Chrome Security Team. The participants in its current program have apparently tapped ...
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Google Fiber Roll-Out Zips Along in Kansas City
CIO Today
Google is taking high-speed broadband to Usain Bolt levels with its Google Fiber service being rolled out in Kansas City. The main virtue is speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, a whopping 100 times zippier than the typical Internet. At the very least ...
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CIO Today
Discover adds Google Wallet for card customers
MarketWatch
Discover's move follows Google's announcement earlier this month that it had updated its mobile-wallet app to allow consumers to add any credit and debit card to the software to fund purchases. That tweak allows customers to go to a website to register ...
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Google's power searching course, now available online
ZDNet
While many folks spend their time waiting for Google to make search results more relevant to them with the least amount of information provided, Google has taken it upon themselves to showcase many of their advanced search capabilities via a 5-hour ...
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The Digital Skeptic: Google Plays Apple Dress-Up
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (MainStreet) -- These days, tech companies are like the kids: They love to dress up like someone they're not. Case in point is Google(GOOG) and its seeming obsession with putting on the shoes, socks and you-know-what of Apple(AAPL).
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Google Named Happiest Company in America ... Again
Fox Business
For the second time in three years, Google ranks as the happiest place to work, a new study finds. The technology giant tops this year's Bliss Leap Award winners from online career community CareerBliss, which ranks companies for making strides to ...
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Yahoo Needs Deal Making 101
Forbes
During her 13 years at Google, Mayer held numerous positions, including engineer, designer, product manager, and executive, and launched more than 100 well-known features and products. She was a part of the deal making at Google, which has acquired ...
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Google Adds 'Prior Art Finder' to Patent Search Tool
PC Magazine
Googe Prior Art Finder. Google this week expanded its online patent search feature to include those filed with the European Patent Office. The update also includes a "Prior Art Finder" to make it easier to determine if someone already holds a patent ...
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Apple and Google's Brewing TV Battle
Mobiledia
Apple is talking with Time Warner Cable and other major cable companies about providing a set-top service using Apple devices, according to the Wall Street Journal. And since Google is also making inroads to break into the TV market, another conflict ...
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Mobiledia
Google's New Search Snippets Blocked By Robots.txt Warning
Search Engine Roundtable
Google is showing a more descriptive search snippet for when it cannot show any search snippet in the search results. If a page is being blocked by the robots.txt file, Google won't show the search snippet (description) in the search results. Google ...
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Google executive confirms death benefits
Mother Nature Network (blog)
With a growing list of atypical yet amazing employee benefits, Google is already one of the best places to work, at least in my opinion. The company recently leaked news of a rather unique employee benefit. While great benefits are typically a reason ...
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Mother Nature Network (blog)
Google Apps and Other Apps on iOS May Soon Open Links in Chrome by Default
Lifehacker
Google Apps and Other Apps on iOS May Soon Open Links in Chrome by Default iOS: When you click on a link in an email or iPhone/iPad app, you're taken to Apple's Safari browser—you have no choice in the matter. However, the latest Google+ on iOS ...
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Google: App Engine is energy efficient & carbon neutral
GigaOM
That's partly because Google has spent years building energy efficiency into the core of its web architecture. The company famously designs all of its data centers and servers from the ground up to maximize efficiency. Google has been praised by ...
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GigaOM
Google Expected to Sell 6-8 Million Nexus 7 Tablets This Year
Gotta Be Mobile
When Amazon launched its Kindle Fire slate, it caught the world by storm at that price and now Google is launching its highly commended Nexus 7 tablet at the same price. According to supply chain data, Google is expected to sell 6 to 8 million tablets ...
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Google Sinks Internet Pirates
Business 2 Community
Google is taking a big step towards combating online piracy, announcing a change in its search algorithm that will favor legally downloadable content over pirated materials. The search engine will begin taking into account the number of valid copyright ...
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Google's freebie to schools is in danger
Kansas City Star
Google set up this inequitable handing out of the fiber goods by tying the opportunity for free access for public spaces to the whims and tech savvy of the surrounding homeowners. The thresholds for gaining free access for institutions differ from area ...
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Happy Birthday Julia Child Google Doodle Celebrates Her 100th Birthday
Z6Mag
Wednesday, she was the single most searched topic on google, and she's been trending on twitter (#JuliaChild) with tweet after tweet as her centennial birthday approached. Even Google's Doodle, (a logo usually found beside the google search bar) show's ...
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Google: Piracy Accusations Will Lower Search Rankings
Scientific American
Google played a key role in helping shoot down the U.S. government's proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, earlier this year. The entertainment industry supported the Act. Now Google seems to be throwing the industry a bone—by threatening to give ...
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Kim Kardashian Possibly 'Jinxed' Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Mansion
Huffington Post
Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is the current owner of a beautiful Spanish-inspired mansion in Montecito, California. The house has previously been rented by celebrities and the elite for lavish weddings, per Business Insider. But recently, the ...
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Google and YouTube have got to show more Adsense
The Guardian
Companies pay for online programmes such as Google Adwords where they design ads and set keywords for their advertising campaigns. Google Adsense then matches these campaigns to online content, automatically inserting ads into pages on YouTube, ...
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The Guardian
Google Is Search Leader in July
DailyFinance
Not much of a surprise, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was again the leader in the U.S. search market in July by a wide margin, according to comScore's latest monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google sites had a 66.8% market share in ...
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DailyFinance
Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome
Ars Technica
Google has upped the ante in its industry-leading cash-for-security-bugs program with hefty bonuses and a hacking contest that will award up to $2 million worth of prizes to people who successfully exploit its Chrome browser. On Wednesday, the search ...
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Why is Google so judgmental? Map shows state search suggestions
Los Angeles Times
A blogger has put together a map that shows Google's auto-complete suggestions for each state when you search "Why is X so," and most of the results aren't pretty. The map shows you Google's auto-complete suggestions for each state when you hover over ...
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Blogs14 new results for Google
 
Google Maps now has schedules for more than one million public ...
By A Googler
Since 2005, we've collaborated with hundreds of transit authorities around the world to make a comprehensive resource for millions of riders to find out which bus, train, subway or tram can take them to their next destination. Today, Google ...
Official Google Blog
Google Quietly Launches Google Play Movie Rentals In Germany ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Google today quietly rolled out movie rentals in Germany. German Google users have long been able to buy movies through the Play Movies store, but according to German blogger Carsten Knobloch, the rental feature only went live earlier ...
TechCrunch
Your Guide to Recovering from Google Penguin
By Jayson DeMers
Many businesses are still in panic mode as they try to escape the depths of a Google Penguin ranking penalty. Here's how to fix it.
Mashable » Startups
Google Maps updates streetview for New Orleans, reminds - Engadget
By James Trew
In many ways, Google's Streetview is a document. A snapshot in time. Usually, this amounts to pictures of a sunny clear day in downtown Localsville, but.
Engadget
Chromium Blog: Announcing Pwnium 2
By Google Chrome Blog
More Blogs from Google. Visit our directory for more information about Google blogs. ... Exploits should be served from a password-authenticated and HTTPS Google property, such as App Engine. The bugs used must be novel i.e. not known ...
Chromium Blog
Google Play Are Ready For Retail, Offer $10 and $25 Credits
By Matt Brian
If you read our earlier coverage on Google finally bringing gift cards and wish lists to Google Play, you will be pleased to know that photos of Google's new retail gift cards have already started to leak, and will offer marketplace values of $10 ...
The Next Web
Google Play Store Updated To 3.8.15 – Play Store Gift Cards and ...
By Chris Chavez
We've been talking about for years now, and following the transformation of the media rich Android Market into the Google Play Store, it seems Google is finally ready to give us what we want — gift cards. Today the Play Store was updated to ...
Android Phone Fans
Matt Cutts Stops By SES To Talk Google & Answer Some Difficult ...
By ThomCraver
Hot off the heels of Avinash's SES opening keynote, day two of SES San Francisco 2012 included another famous Googler to start the day. Matt Cutts (@mattcutts),
Online Marketing Blog
Google Maps Updates Public Transit Data Worldwide
By Frank Reed
Google Maps continues to evolve with the latest update adding some 1 million stops for public transportation systems around the ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...
Google Is Search Leader in July - 24/7 Wall St.
By Trey
Not much of a surprise, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was again the leader in the U.S. search market in July by a wide margin, according to comScore's latest monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google sites had a 66.8% ...
24/7 Wall St.
Google Play Store to finally offer gift cards – Cell Phones & Mobile ...
By Russell Holly
Aug. 15, 2012 - The Google Play Store has been missing something since the day it was announced: you have never been able to purchase with a gift card. When it was just.
Geek.com
Google Sweetens Bug Bounty Pot | threatpost
By Brian Donohue
Google announced yesterday that they would be handing out bonuses on top of existing rewards to security researchers who report especially troublesome flaws as part of their bug bounty program.
threatpost - The First Stop for...
The Google Fiber Van
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Louis Gray posted a picture of the latest fleet of cars/vans operated by Google. This one is for Google Fiber. I assume this van contains the equipment to install Google Fiber at your home. As Loui.
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Docs pioneer Sam Schillace joins Box as VP of Engineering ...
By Christina Farr
Sam Schillace leaves Google Ventures, joins Box as new VP of Engineering.
VentureBeat

Web2 new results for Google
 
Google Applications - Verizon Small Business
Google Apps for Verizon helps increase small business collaboration and productivity. Bundle these business apps with Verizon and Save!
smallbusiness.verizon.com/products/apps/.../overview.aspx
How YouTube escaped Google's anti-piracy search crackdown ...
"Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results," Amit Singhal, Google's head of engineering, said in a blog post. "This ranking ...
money.cnn.com/2012/08/13/technology/google.../index.html


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