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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors

Sep 29, 2009 No Comments

This is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities, Operating Systems/Browsers, Mobile, Search and Developers… Tweet This Post

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DOJ: Google’s book settlement needs rewrite

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments

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Google Reveals Full FCC Response, Directly Contradicts Apple On Google Voice Rejection

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments

Google has released a full version of its response to the FCC’s inquiry on Apple’s ban of Google Voice from the App Store, revealing the answer to ‘Question 2′ that had been redacted from the letter that was released in August. Question 2 asked Google to detail Apple’s stated reasons for rejecting both Google Voice [...]

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Your Google docs: Soon in search results?

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments

Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be.  Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that “in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that [...]

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Google Voice rejection came from the top at Apple (updated)

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice app for the iPhone went all the way to the top—the bad news was personally delivered to Google by none other than Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller… Tweet This Post

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Google Reveals Full FCC Response, Directly Contradicts Apple On Google Voice Rejection

Sep 20, 2009 No Comments

Google has released a full version of its response to the FCC’s inquiry on Apple’s ban of Google Voice from the App Store, revealing the answer to ‘Question 2′ that had been redacted from the letter that was released in August. Question 2 asked Google to detail Apple’s stated reasons for rejecting both Google Voice [...]

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Google Launches New Ad Marketplace; Display Ads Will Never Be the Same

Sep 18, 2009 No Comments

You’re probably familiar with Google AdSense and AdWords, Google’s flagship advertising products. It’s how Google makes its billion of dollars. Highly targeted text ads appear on Google search and third party websites that are part of the AdSense program. Advertisers buy ads based on keywords, with more popular keywords costing more per click than less [...]

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Google Finally Links AdWords To DoubleClick; Launches Ad Exchange

Sep 18, 2009 No Comments

Google is ready to fully leap into the display ad market, arguing it can do for that category what it has done for search. Ever since its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick two years ago, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has promised to make it easy to manage both search and display sales as a one-stop shop… [...]

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Google FastFlip Is Latest Attack On Amazon Kindle (GOOG, AMZN)

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments

What’s the point of Google’s new FastFlip reader? Not to change the way you read news on the Web — it’s too ugly and simplistic for that. But because it loads pages very fast — and requires minimal effort to navigate — it could be useful for portable devices. Specifically, tablet-like gadgets with 3G modems [...]

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Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10… Tweet This Post

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Google Acquires reCAPTCHA to Fight Spam and Improve Google Books OCR

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Google just announced that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, one of the leading providers of CPATCHAs, the hard-to-read puzzles you often have to solve before you can sign up for a new web service. Google, of course, isn’t so much interested in owning software that can generate CAPTCHAs – that’s an easy problem to solve – [...]

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Bing grabs 10 percent of search market

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Microsoft’s new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday. The total amount of searches on Bing rang in at 1.1 billion for the month of August, a leap of 22.1 percent over July, winning Microsoft a 10.7 percent share of the search [...]

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