Clint Boulton

Google Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra is a busy man. Just days of after eviscerating Apple for being a closed company at Google I/O in San Francisco, Gundotra graced the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City for a mobile panel. Panel host Michael Arrington didn’t grill Gundotra on his aggressive stance versus […]

Users spent more than 4.8 million hours of time playing Google’s free Pac-Man game Friday, a time suck that could have cost companies nearly $120.5 million, according to time management tool RescueTime. Google last Friday released its Pac-Man game as a playable doodle logo, allowing users to click the insert coin button and begin gobbling […]

LinkedIn May 26 added a feature to its Tweets application that lets users track their LinkedIn connections on Twitter as well. LinkedIn began letting users tweet to Twitter from LinkedIn and vice versa in November 2009 through Tweets, which has been picked up by more than 1 million users. The new find/follow feature is represented […]

Hounded by privacy watchdogs in the United States and overseas, Google May 25 made good on its March promise to deliver an opt-out plug-in that allows Google Analytics users to hide what Websites they’re visiting. Google Analytics is a suite of business intelligence software that tells Website publishers how users are interacting with their properties […]

How do you counter criticism that you are a greedy giant that likes to pummel user privacy for profit? Show you can be open and then show how much money companies are making because of your products. Google did both this week. On May 24, Google revealed its ad revenue splits for its AdSense for […]

Foursquare has not cornered the nascent location-based social service war, executives from Google, Facebook and Foursquare asserted at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York May 25. TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington asked Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, Chris Cox, vice president of product management for Facebook and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, whether […]

Adobe products may not be welcomed on Apple’s iPhone or iPad, but the company is doing its best to cozy up to Google’s Android mobile operating system. Adobe May 21 released Adobe Reader for Android to the Android Market, capping a love fest at Google I/O, where Google’s Android group pledged support for Adobe’s Flash […]

Yahoo on May 25 made its second purchase in as many weeks, acquiring location-based social service Koprol for an undisclosed sum. The deal was sealed one month after Yahoo was rumored to be trying to buy popular check-in service Foursquare and just one week after agreeing to purchase Associated Content for a reported $100 million. […]

Twitter May 24 sent out another warning to developers by vowing not to allow any third- party company or individual to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. The move is outlined in these revised developer terms of service, which also stipulate that third parties must pay Twitter […]

Froyo The OS comes before Apple’s new iPhone 4.0, which will boast multitasking and other features. Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for Google, went on the war path versus Apple. JIT Compiler Google adds a JIT compiler to Android 2.2 to make applications run two to five times faster than previous flavors of Android. […]

Google’s revelation of Google TV May 20 at the Google I/O developer’s conference sparked more questions than answers, which is impressive when you consider that we know about the platform’s software, hardware and retail partners. What we know: Google TV marries Web surfing and channel surfing, much like existing services such as Apple TV, TiVo, […]

Google May 24 came clean on its revenue-sharing practices for its two core AdSense advertising products, weeks before Apple is expected to turn on its iAd platform. Google said it pays its “AdSense for content” publishing customers 68 percent of the money the search engine earns from AdSense advertisers for content ads that appear on […]