AOL Tightens Google Search Deal
2010-09-02 10:25:26
Keywords: Financial, News, Stock, Market, Headlines, Investments, Quotes, Trading, TheStreet.com, James Rogers ,Tech
Quote: NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- AOL(AOL) has strengthened its partnership with fellow Internet giant Google(GOOG) in an attempt to boost its search business.Google will also provide AOL with enhanced search technologies, and also bolster its partner's efforts around mobile apps and content. AOL and YouTube have also agreed to a content partnership that will bring AOL's video content to the popular video sharing site.has been losing share in the Internet search market.AOL investors responded positively t...
Read articleAOL and Google re-up for 5 years (eternity)
2010-09-02 10:25:25
Quote: Google and AOL announce a continuation and expansion of one of the Internet's longest standing partnerships.One of the bigger aspects of the deal brings AOL video to YouTube, further solidifying Google's dominance of video on the web. Â It also includes the hot mobile category.
The length of the deal, at five years, is an eternity in the fast-moving Internet space. Â YouTube, for example, is only five years old.
AOLÂ CEO Tim Armstrong, the former Google executive, had earlier hinted that ...
Read articleSamsung unveils iPad competitor Galaxy
2010-09-02 10:25:24
Keywords: Samsung unveils iPad competitor Galaxy, aapl,adbe,goog
Quote: on Thursday unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple Inc.'s popular iPad.The device offers users "a new galaxy of possibilities" with features such as mobile video conferencing and a video chat function, Samsung Europe telecom executive Thomas Richter said at Berlin's IFA consumer electronics fair.The thin tablet device weighs 13.4 ounces (380 grams) and has a 7-inch (18-centimeter) touch screen, making it about three times that of an Apple iPhone, but ...
Read articleIndia to Have 237 Million Web Surfers in 2015
2010-09-01 04:23:50
Quote: “InIndia and Indonesia, it’s the Googles,Facebooks, Orkut.”
Going forward, “you willhave language editions of all these global sites,” hesaid. The hardware might haveto change too, to voice-based devices or other gadgets that are more intuitive to use, he added.
Mr. Subramanian saysIndians are likely to take to services that enhance personal productivity, suchas job alerts or continuing education. About 73% of people who go online inIndia spend time job hunting,the ...
Read articleMoto Out-Apps Apple in China
2010-09-01 04:23:48
Quote: By Loretta ChaoFrom China Real Time:
Motorola, which has regained some credibility with the Droid/Milestone and its new focus on Android smartphones, also seems to be trying in earnest to do things right again in China, where it has lost significant market-share in recent years.  Aside from a relaunch Monday of Moto’s hit Ming series in China, the company has started a Chinese version of its application store called Shop4Apps which, unlike Apple’s Chinese App Store, is availabl...
Read articleGoogle Offers Respite From Inbox Overload
2010-08-31 07:27:14
Keywords: Technology, Start-Ups, Internet, Enterprise, Gadgets,Computers and the Internet,Electronic Mail,Google Inc,,,
Quote: Plenty of people who use e-mail on a daily basis feel the same.
Now Google is trying to come to the rescue with a new Gmail feature announced Tuesday called Priority Inbox, which monitors your messages and tries to organize your inbox based on a number of criteria, like how often you correspond with a particular sender.
Google explains that the first thing Priority Inbox does is split your inbox into three sections: “important and unread,†“starred†and “everything ...
Read articleGoogle tool tries to cut through e-mail clutter
2010-08-31 07:27:13
Keywords: Google tool tries to cut through e-mail clutter, goog
Quote: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. can sift through more than a trillion Web links in a matter of seconds, but can the Internet search leader help people wade through their overflowing e-mailboxes?That's the challenge Google will try to tackle Tuesday with the introduction of a tool called "Priority Inbox" in its Gmail service.The feature relies on formulas devised by Google engineers to automatically figure out and highlight which incoming messages are likely to be the most important to each Gma...
Read articleGoogle buys mobile-games developer Social Deck
2010-08-31 07:27:11
Keywords: Industries|Tech, GOOG, Google Inc
Quote: TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc.,/quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog(GOOG452.69,-6.14,-1.34%) the Mountain View, Calif., search-engine giant, continued to build its social-networking efforts by acquiring Social Deck, a producer of social games and platform technology for mobile devices. Terms weren't disclosed. Social Deck, which says its key staffers split their time between Toronto and San Francisco, announced the deal Monday on its website. "The company has launched several titles ...
Read articleGoogle set to unveil "priority inbox" for Gmail
2010-08-31 07:27:11
Keywords: IT Services / Consulting,Business/Public Services,United States,Internet / World Wide Web,Software / IT Services,Technology,General News,Society / Science / Nature,Company News item,Economic news, EC, business/financial pages,
Quote: Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:41am EDT
Aug 31 (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) is set to unveil a
new feature to its Gmail service that aims to separate a user's
important emails from the ones that do not get read often. The new feature called "Priority Inbox" will help users
focus on messages that matter without having to set up complex
rules, Google said in its official blog. The Priority Inbox application splits the inbox into three
sections: 'Important and unread', 'Starred' and 'Everything
Else'. "As m...
Read articleGmail's new mind-reading priority inbox
2010-08-31 07:27:10
Keywords: Gmail, inbox, e-mail, Outlook, message, mail, Google, Microsoft
Quote: Gmail's new mind-reading inbox
By David Goldman, staff writerAugust 31, 2010: 5:26 AM ETNEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google is adding a new feature in Gmail that will automatically spotlight important e-mails and separate out the ones you can wait to read later.The tool, called "priority inbox," works like a spam filter, except instead of filtering e-mails that you definitely don't want to see, it moves the ones you really want to the top. Google said the feature will help users sort thr...
Read articleGoogle Buys Social Games Maker SocialDeck
2010-08-31 07:27:09
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: In its effort to challenge Facebook, Google has become a social butterfly. The latest proof of that is Google’s acquisition Monday of SocialDeck, a maker of social games for mobile phones, VentureBeat reported.
SocialDeck has made games such as Shake & Spell, Color Connect, and Pet Hero. Its games were downloaded about a million times in 2009. The company is based in Waterloo, Ontario. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed.
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Read articleJon Friedman's Media Web: Twitter won me over. Yes, I admit I was wrong
2010-08-30 06:13:02
Keywords: Commentary, GE, General Electric Co, GOOG, Google Inc
Quote: Google Music's not here yet. But ExtensionFM isYou're going to have to wait some time before you can use Google Music, because the service doesn't exist yet. But if you want a sense of what it should look like, go play with ExtensionFM, an interesting startup that plays off Google's Chrome browser.I'm not the only one who has seen the light. Susie Gharib, the co-anchor of the "Nightly Business Report," told me on camera recently that she didn't tweet and basically didn't quite understand why she...
Read articleGoogle: Report YouTube In Talks On Pay-Per-View Film Service
2010-08-30 06:13:00
Quote: By Eric SavitzGoogle (GOOG) is in talks with the leading movie studios on launching a pay-per-view movie service on YouTube by the end of the year, according to the Financial Times. The service would reportedly be offered in the U.S. first, with other countries added over time. Such a move would the company in direct competition with Hulu, Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon (AMZN), among others.
The more, the merrier.......
Read articleGoogle Gives Real-Time Search Its Own Page
2010-08-27 01:39:37
Keywords: Technology, Start-Ups, Internet, Enterprise, Gadgets,Search Engines,Google Inc,,,
Quote: | Updated Clarifying in second paragraph that other services have been offering direct access to live updates, something that Google is now adding.
Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social networks.
Google is the default search engine for most people searching most topics. But as the real-time Web exploded, other search engines, like Twitter’s and Bing, became more usef...
Read articleGoogle expands Twitter, Facebook search
2010-08-27 01:39:36
Quote: Google Inc. on Thursday expanded its real-time search product to help keep track of the latest conversations on social networks including Twitter and Facebook.One new feature is a "conversations view" which lets users view the retweets and replies that get sparked by a single tweet on a social network like Twitter.It also allows geographic restrictions on search, limiting the results to posts from people nearby.A Google Alert feature will also notify users when terms they are searching...
Read articleThe Strangest Sports Records
2010-08-27 01:39:36
Keywords: Sports, Records, Guinness World Records, Guinness Book, Athletics
Quote: Today GoogleGOOGnewspeople) may be the go-to resource for quick answers, but Guinness World Records is still the gold standard. The book supposedly holds a record of its own: "the book most stolen at U.S. public libraries." Only fitting.Jim Pattison Group, a Canadian company that also owns Ripley's Believe it or Not, now has the rights. And for safety and legal reasons, all booze-related records have been taken out--like Steve Petrosino's amazing feat of guzzling 550 ml of beer in 1.3 seconds.St...
Read articleGoogle raises stakes with disruptive phone service
2010-08-27 01:39:35
Keywords: Industries|Tech, T, AT&T Inc, GOOG, Google Inc, EBAY, eBay Inc, VZ, Verizon Communications Inc
Quote: Cell tower for your homeWalt Mossberg tells us about solution for people who have weak or no cellular service in their homes and why the big wireless companies are keep quiet about it.Now, Google/quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog(GOOG450.98,-3.64,-0.80%) is making it easier to use Google Voice, by providing instant access through the company's Gmail accounts. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet major is also deploying a related marketing campaign, which will have it placing at least ...
Read articleGoogle Expands Its 'RealTime' Search of Tweets, Buzzes
2010-08-27 01:39:34
Quote: By AMIR EFRATIGoogle Inc. on Thursday bolstered its attempt to make its Web-search results timelier, using a "real-time" approach to help find content from sites such as Twitter and Facebook.The service, called Google Realtime Search, can be used separately from the company's main search engine to help people find the latest Web conversations on regional and global hot topics.News Corp.'sMySpace. The posts appear in a continuously updating news feed.Over the past year, Web-search services have b...
Read articleBookshops' Custom Prints
2010-08-27 01:39:33
Quote: It costs the bookstore under a penny a page to print, plus a licensing fee.Google Inc. to get access to older so-called "public domain" titles, and with Ingram Content Group Inc.'s Lightning Source for in-copyright titles. For Google titles, stores pay a licensing fee of $2 per book, split between Google and On Demand; for Lightning Source books, the fee varies.Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass., installed an Espresso machine with Xerox's printer last September and prints about 1,000 books a...
Read articleGoogle plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail
2010-08-26 05:09:42
Keywords: Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail, call,ebay,goog
Quote: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. is adding a free e-mail feature that may persuade more people to cut the cords on their landline phones.The service unveiled Wednesday enables U.S. users of Google's Gmail service to make calls from microphone-equipped computers to telephones virtually anywhere in the world.All calls in the U.S. and Canada will be free through at least the end of the year. That undercuts the most popular PC-to-phone service, Skype, which charges 1.2 cents to 2.1 cents per minute...
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