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Gmail Records Show Bear Stearns Anticipated "Blow-Up Risk" to Investors

If you're planning to mediate on the collapse of your publicly held company, you'd better think twice about doing it on Gmail. Google's email service promises that you'll "never need to delete another message," and in fact it keeps ...READ»

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GOOGLE   |  5 comments

Tracking H1N1: Google Flu Trends Go Global

Earlier today, Google announced that it was expanding its flu trends program to 16 additional countries, bringing the total to 20 countries. Google first released the program last November after noticing a geographical correlation ...READ»

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Google Ads Go Hyper-Local, and With Flat Fees They're Cheaper for Businesses

Google is trying to solicit more hyper-local advertising by straying from the very ad formula that made it rich. AdAge reported yesterday that local ads will not use "keyword auctioning," the Google Ads system that chooses which ...READ»

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Google and Microsoft in Talks for Twitter's Real-Time Tweets

The on-again, off-again talks between Google and Twitter are apparently on again, according to a new rumor--only this time Microsoft's in the mix too. But what are these three talking about? Data on all those Tweeps and Tweets, in real time.READ»

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GOOGLE   |  10 comments

WTF, Google?

Processing billions of queries a day almost guarantees that Google will get some mutations now and then. Today, TechRadar discussed some of the quiddities of Google's Suggest function, but the "WTF, Google?" meme goes much deeper. ...READ»

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CHROME   |  5 comments

Google's Play-Dumb Browser Campaign for Chrome

Google has been pushing its Chrome browser hard, even buying those ubiquitous TV ads. Now the search giant has launched a Web site called What Browser? to accompany the campaign. The first step to getting Chrome converts, Google ...READ»

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Google-Verizon Taking on Apple-AT&T

Google and Verizon have just announced a "groundbreaking" agreement to maximize the chances for success of the Android OS in the U.S. smartphone market. Their intended target? Beating Apple and AT&T at their own game. The ...READ»

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Google Makes Gesture Creation Tool, Palm Drops Fees to Woo Developers

Nokia may be excited about gesture control on the N900, and Apple may be all over multitouch patents that make multiple gestures possible, but Google's taken the next step, and built a programmable Gestures API into Android 1.6. Of ...READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  5 comments

For the Friendship-Obsessed, Facebook Adds Voice Chat

If Facebook's news feed isn't fast enough for you, there's chat. And if you're the type who finds chat too slow or not intimate enough, now there's voice chat. Enter Vivox, a voice chat application in beta for Facebook. After adding ...READ»

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Amazon Brings One-Click Buying to Mobile Apps

Amazon's patented one-click purchasing has been the boon companion of plenty of impulse purchases. Now the retailer is looking to bring the one-click experience to mobile phones for businesses that use its PayPal competitor, Amazon ...READ»

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