Mohamed Mansour, the developer behind the Facebook Friend Exporter, has created an experimental Google Chrome extension called Hangout Pad for Google+, which adds document collaboration capabilities to Hangouts, the multi-person video chat feature available on Google’s social networking platform. READ MORE
According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, one child goes missing every 40 seconds. To help parents be better prepared for these sudden and scary situations, the FBI has debuted its very first mobile application, an iPhone app called ‘Child ID‘. READ MORE
Former Microsoft executive Steven VanRoekel will become the next chief information officer for the federal government, the White House announced today. READ MORE
Yesterday, in a post on Google’s main blog, Google’s SVP and chief legal counsel David Drummond accused Apple and Microsoft of waging an anti-competitive campaign against Android to keep Google from getting access to key patents. READ MORE
The Nielsen Co., which rates and analyzes various multimedia to provide a better understanding of what consumers watch and buy, will soon be bringing its ratings service to Facebook ad campaigns. READ MORE
Last week, we reported on a disturbing story of a woman who returned to her San Francisco apartment to find it utterly burglarized, terrorized, and mutilated by someone who had rented it via Airbnb for a week. Read the shocking details of the burglary here. READ MORE
Jonathan Koomey, a data center energy expert and consulting professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford University, released a new report Monday estimating the amount of servers and electricity consumed by Google, and how energy-efficient those custom servers are. READ MORE
Intuit, the financial solutions company behind management software like Quicken and Quickbooks, has publicly launched Brainstorm, its web-based collaboration tool that offers a simple and intuitive interface to map out company-wide brainstorms for new ideas, challenges, and pipelines. READ MORE
If the rumors are true, Apple may be positioning itself to be the largest distributor of e-books in the world. BGR received a tip from an unproven source who claims that Apple is having internal discussions around purchasing Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the U.S. READ MORE
This week, we learned about the one major blemish on Airbnb’s otherwise-spotless record: On June 26, a woman named “EJ” returned to her San Francisco apartment to find it completely ransacked, burglarized, and vandalized by someone who had rented it via Airbnb for a week. Read the shocking details of the burglary here. READ MORE
