Tag Archives: Google Inc.

About 607 days ago Smartphones and PDAs | Telecom and Wireless

Samsung to Make its Operating System Open Sourced

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Samsung plans to make its Bada software an open source platform next year to kick-start growth in the operating system and reduce its reliance on Google’s Android, reports The Wall Street Journal. READ MORE »

About 608 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business | Location-based services

Germany’s DailyDeal Acquired by Google

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Google has acquired a Groupon clone, a German company called DailyDeal. The company, which was founded in 2009, offers deals in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Google has not commented on the acquisition, but DailyDeal announced the agreement on its website. READ MORE »

About 608 days ago Business Software | Innovation | Internet and Online Business | Managing Technology | Mobility Tips and Tricks | Telecom and Wireless | Tools on Managing Technology

Google Launches Its Mobile Payment Platform With Little Fanfare

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Google launched its mobile payment service today, Google Wallet. If you haven’t heard about it, that’s because Google wanted it like that. READ MORE »

About 608 days ago Innovation | Internet and Online Business | Managing Technology

Start-Up Gojee Wants To Know What’s in Your Pantry

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Gojee, a new recipe website, hopes to carve out a niche in the crowded online food space by personalizing content in a way the established competition, Epicurious, Yummly, and Food Network, haven’t. To do this, it will track what you buy at the grocery store. READ MORE »

About 609 days ago Innovation

Garage48 Helps Start-Ups Begin After a Weekend’s Work

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Meet Garage48, a series of weekend workshops that aim to develop a start-up by the end of the events. Oh, yes, it was founded in Estonia and has spread to Africa and across Europe. READ MORE »

About 609 days ago Internet and Online Business

A Chinese Company Will Try for the Largest Internet IPO Ever

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Consider Jingdong as a Chinese important worth noting. It aims to become the largest Internet IPO in history. READ MORE »

About 611 days ago Blogging and Social Media | Internet and Online Business

Google Reportedly Working on Its Own Version of Flipboard

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According to tech pundit and blogger Robert Scoble, Google will be launching a new product that will compete with the wildly popular Flipboard iPad app. “My source says that the versions he’s seen so far are mind-blowing good,” he wrote on his Google+ page. READ MORE »

About 611 days ago Apps | Blogging and Social Media

Google+ API Released

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App developers, take note: There’s now an application programming interface (API) available for Google+. In the Google+ Platform blog, Google Developer Advocate Chris Chabot wrote, “…we want every one of you who builds applications to be able to include rich sharing, identity, and conversations in your app…This initial API release is focused on public data only — it lets you read information that people have shared publicly on Google+.” READ MORE »

About 612 days ago Business Software | Smartphones and PDAs | Telecom and Wireless

Google Scoops Up Patents for Android Fight

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Google has bought up just over 1,000 patents from IBM to help defend itself in patent lawsuits against aspects of its smartphone technology. The company claims that a “hostile environment” for intellectual property has been created in the technology world by Apple and Microsoft. READ MORE »

About 612 days ago E-Commerce | Internet and Online Business

Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft form Ad Triumvirate

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Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft have grown chummy as Google has cast its long pale digital shadow over the world of online advertising. To counter the search engine giant, the three companies that formerly competed for display ad crumbs will now sell slices of the pie for each other. READ MORE »