Tag Archives: Google

Like.com confirms purchase by Google

Visual search and shopping startup Like.com has confirmed that it’s being acquired by Google. A note from chief executive Munjal Shah on the company site announces the deal without offering many details, such as acquisition price. On like.com site, Munjal … Continue reading

Posted in Application, Business, News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Facebook now 3rd most popular video site

The social network Facebook is currently the third most popular video source on the Web. According to a monthly video study by comScore, except for Google and Yahoo, it has surpassed all other media sites and video services. In second … Continue reading

Posted in Application, News | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments

Google Buys Jambool to Rival Facebook Credits

Google acquired Jambool, which makes the Solid Gold virtual currency service that competes with Facebook Credits. Jambool is the latest piece of Google’s social network strategy. Google confirmed that it acquired Jambool, whose Solid Gold platform provides a virtual currency … Continue reading

Posted in Application, Business, News | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Google’s Android to use PayPal for Apps payment

PayPal business of Ebay Inc. is currently negotiating with Google to include to its payment service of Google Inc.’s Android smart-phone software, which would make it a lot easier for Android phone users to pay for applications. While the discussions … Continue reading

Posted in Business, News | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Oracle files lawsuit over Google’s Android OS

Oracle has filed a federal copyright lawsuit alleging Google’s popular Android operating system was built on Oracle’s Java software without permission. Oracle’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, accuses Google of infringing on patents and copyrights … Continue reading

Posted in Application, Business, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

“Google Me” may threaten FB

Google is soon to launch its social network “Google Me”. Google’s first attempt at social networking, Orkut for example (Google’s own Facebook) is a successful website in some countries. According to some reports, Facebook is on “lock down” for the … Continue reading

Posted in Application, Business, News | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Will SLIDE Boost Google’s Social Network?

Google is headed into the world of social network with its recent purchase of Slide – a media company that develops games, widgets, and applications designed specifically for social network. Like SuperPoke in Facebook that lets you throw virtual sheep … Continue reading

Posted in Application, Business, News | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

75 Million Androids by 2012

There are about 200,000 new phones running Google’s Android software which are activated every day worldwide and has doubled the number two months back. And according to the research firm iSuppli, the abrupt increase is expecting Android to surpass Apple’s … Continue reading

Posted in Gadgets, News | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

YouTube Upload Time Boosted to 15 minutes

Looking to make room for the 24 hours-plus of videos uploaded to the Website, as well as to protect copyrights for these videos, YouTube has boosted its upload time from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.

Posted in News | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Yahoo Japan to adopt Google’s search engine

Japan’s largest Internet portal operator will adopt Google’s search engine refusing to follow Yahoo Inc. in choosing Microsoft as a partner. Yahoo Japan, which currently uses Yahoo Inc’s search technology, and Google together would control almost all of the search … Continue reading

Posted in Business, News | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment