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Mobile-Ad Network InMobi Raises $200 Million

With InMobi, a mobile-advertising network, raising a monstrous $200 million, it appears mobile ads could have a greater future than their traditional counterparts, the ones draped vertically across websites. READ MORE »

Learning From TechCrunch’s Disrupt Battlefield

When you spend a large chunk of your day, for three straight days, watching enthusiastic tech entrepreneurs distill their products and services into a six-minute quick pitch in front of a rotating cast of industry heavyweights, you start to recognize some basic do’s and don’ts. Here’s are five simple take-aways from TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Start-up Battlefield: READ MORE »

Wi-fi Providers Can Opt Out of Google’s Data Collection

Google is tweaking a practice that has drawn the ire of wi-fi providers, consumers, and international governments: It will now let wi-fi providers opt out of providing location data to Google services. The plan applies worldwide. The company has received much criticism both in the U.S. and overseas for what some call “aggressive” data gathering. READ MORE »

Google Launches Flight Search

Google has launched a new flight search tool to compete with travel search engines like Kayak and Orbitz and if you ever travel for business or pleasure it’s worth checking out. READ MORE »

Google Asks for Help Fixing Maps

Google has decided to turn to the masses and ask us to fix its ailing Google Maps. Well, Google decided to turn to a few select users, actually. The Regional Expert Reviewer program will tap the best contributors to Google Map Maker to act as volunteer moderators. READ MORE »

Start-up Developes AI That Writes News Stories

You may rest assured that a person typed these very words you read, from the 29th floor of a skyscraper at World Trade Center Plaza. But for how long will your news stories, magazine features, and blog posts stay produced by man remains very much in question. READ MORE »

Iridium Brings Wi-Fi to Places With No Cellular Signals

If you travel to remote places but need business-critical access to e-mail or the Internet, satellite phone provider Iridium Communications has introduced a new product that might be able to give it to you. READ MORE »

Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities

Google Offers, a daily deals program engineered by the search engine giant to compete with Groupon, launched in Portland, Oregon last April before expanding to New York City and the San Francisco area. After a successful beta launch in all the requisite tech markets, Google Offers announced that it will launch in five new cities: Austin, Boston, Denver, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. READ MORE »

Google Buying Zagat

If your first response to the news that Google was acquiring Zagat was, “Huh?” You’re not alone. And although it might seem that the two make strange bedfellows, analysts say the deal (details of which were not disclosed) for the restaurant-rating guide makes sense. The purchase price is estimated to be in the $100 million to $200 million range. READ MORE »

Blockbuster Will Add a New Streaming-Video Service

Poor Netflix continues to have a really rough few weeks. Customers squawked at its pricing changes. Starz walked out on its streaming-video service. Now Blockbuster says it will start its own online streaming service. READ MORE »

Tag Archives: Google Inc.

Mobile-Ad Network InMobi Raises $200 Million

Wi-fi Providers Can Opt Out of Google’s Data Collection

Google Launches Flight Search

Google Asks for Help Fixing Maps

Start-up Developes AI That Writes News Stories

Iridium Brings Wi-Fi to Places With No Cellular Signals

Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities

Blockbuster Will Add a New Streaming-Video Service

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