Clint Boulton

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) plans to move forward with its planned privacy policy changes despite resistance from a handful of U.S. congressmen and a European data-protection group. The search-engine provider, battling Facebook for supremacy of user engagement and advertising on the Web, said it planned to introduce changes to its privacy policies March 1. These changes include […]

One of the leading knocks on Google’s freewheeling, open approach to the Android Market is that it’s leaves the application store more susceptible to malware and lots of spammy apps. Indeed, Symantec, Lookout Mobile and other security firms have reported a significant rise in Android Market malware in the last 12 months. And with over […]

Facebook’s $5 billion IPO will give the company the capital boost to expand into new services and make some larger acquisitions it might not want or be able to do while private, analysts agree. Gartner analyst Ray Valdes believes Facebook might use its new capital to acquire larger companies than it has in the past. […]

Much of the negative conversation concerning Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform is predicated on the fact that it’s fragmented. Specifically, the concern is that there too many operating system builds spanning Android 2.0 to Android 4.0, too many devices and handset makers clogging an already crowded mobile market. While it’s not common to hear Average Joe […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Feb. 1 fired back at Microsoft’s advertising slam against the search engine’s privacy policy updates, publishing a myth-busting blog post that addresses its rival’s key allegations. The backstory: Google Jan. 24 said it will fold 60 privacy policies into one blanket policy, treating any user with a Google account who signs into search, […]

1) Facebook: Social Network King The social network-which in its SEC filing announced $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion net income for 2011-chalked up 845 million users in just under eight years. Facebook turns 8 Feb. 4. 2) Groupon Daily deals giant Groupon went public last Nov. 4. […]

Google continues to leverage its good work in HTML5 to enable its productivity and collaboration applications to work offline. The company is now letting users make any Google Docs available offline from their Android smartphone or tablet computer. This covers documents, Google presentations, Google spreadsheets, uploaded images, and files in formats such as .pdf, .doc, […]

Facebook filed for a $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) Feb. 1, claiming to make $3.7 billion in annual revenue, $1.8 billion in operating income and $1 billion in net income. With some 845 million users, Facebook may not have been an Internet darling for a few years. When the social network goes public, it […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome is having an inauspicious start to 2012, slipping a tad to 18.9 percent market share through January from 19.1 percent through December, according to Net Applications. Mozilla’s Firefox browser, meanwhile, continued its slide, dropping nearly a full percentage point to 20.9 percent for the month, from 21.8 percent in December and 22 […]

Google is getting a lot of flak about its new privacy policies, some of it warranted and some of it not. The fact is that Google has been heading along this path for years. One could argue the first indication was the Dashboard Google set up in 2009 to provide users more information about how […]

1) Kindle Fire Powers Android Tablet Share Strategy Analytics revealed that the Kindle Fire helped power market share for tablets based on Google’s Android operating system to 39 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. 2) Apple iPad Q4 Sales Apple may have sold 15.4 million-plus […]

There is a long-held belief that the majority of Google App customers are small mom-and-pop shops, ranging between two and 10 employees. Technically, that is true of the 4 million-plus businesses using Google Apps. However, there are more companies of scale using Apps than you might think, according to a new analysis by Backupify. While […]