Clint Boulton

Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) is fueling the next generation of Google TVs with a new, ARM-based chip system, which the semiconductor maker will formally introduce at the 2012 Consumers Electronics Show next week. The chipmaker told eWEEK its Foresight Platform, powered by the Marvell Armada 1500 HD Media System-on-a-Chip (SoC), will appear on smart TVs, set-top boxes […]

Google has earned some kudos and respect for shepherding its Google Wallet mobile payment platform, which the company launched in New York City and San Francisco last September, to market before Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), PayPal and others with a stake in the mobile commerce sector. For the uninitiated, Wallet includes a mobile application that communicates with […]

Microsoft Buyout Merging with Microsoft tickles our fancy. Here’s why: Since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer joined Mike Lazaridis on stage at BlackBerry World last spring, Windows Phone has barely made a dent in market share. In fact, Windows Mobile continues its slide, suggesting Microsoft needs more than a partnership with Nokia to grab mobile market […]

On the heels of my post about Google and Facebook locked in a user engagement death match (or more appropriately, Google chasing Facebook here), John Battelle sallied forth with the prediction that Facebook would launch a third-party ad platform. As in, the one Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his lieutenant COO Sheryl Sandberg, and numerous others […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chrome, the Web browser at the center of a paid link controversy this week, could be the company’s next billion-dollar business, according to a prominent Internet analyst. Launched in September 2008, Chrome now has more than 200 million users worldwide, according to Google. StatCounter claimed the browser now commands 25.7 percent of the […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market has topped the 400,000 mark for active applications worldwide, according to application store analyst Distimo. The milestone comes after the Market hit the 300,000-application milestone in August 2011, up from 200,000 titles in April 2011. It also comes one month after Google said its Market exceeded 10 billion application downloads, with […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) Jan. 4 named PayPal President Scott Thompson as CEO, ending months of searching after the struggling media company fired Carl Bartz from the role in September. Thompson, who was also appointed to Yahoo’s board of directors, will take the helm Jan. 9, when interim CEO Tim Morse will resume his role as CFO. […]

Using his Business Insider blog operations as an example, Henry Blodget made a compelling argument as to why Google should pump more money into improving Google Apps. Blodget’s predicament goes like this: “Of course, because we are occasionally e-mailed Microsoft Office files and need to be able to open them, and because we occasionally need […]

Poorly crafted paid blog posts hawking the Chrome browser have painted Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) as hypocritical, racking up some early bad publicity and spurred the company to demote its Web browser’s home page. SEOBook noted Jan. 2 that a search for “This post is sponsored by Google” retrieved more than 400 pages of iffy content as […]

Most companies and institutions decline to say exactly why they chose one vendor’s solution over that of a rival, so it can be refreshing when an organization bucks the trend. The University of California at Berkeley eschewed that timeless practice last month when it took the unusual step of explaining why it selected Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) […]