Clint Boulton

Netflix’s (NASDAQ:NFLX) staggered launch of its mobile application for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android handsets provided the perfect cover for a new Trojan to attack unsuspecting users, according to security power Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC). The malware at issue, dubbedAndroid.Fakeneflic and classified as “very low risk” by Symantec, is a “text-book case of an information stealing Trojan that targets […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 13 soundly beat third-quarter earnings expectations, announcing $9.72 billion in sales, excluding traffic acquisition costs paid to ad partners of $2.21 billion. The earnings marked a 33 percent boost from Q3 2010. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had Google to report net revenue rising 32 percent to $7.21 billion from Q3 2010 […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Oct. 12 added real-time search and improved hashtag capabilities to Google+, two key features to help users search the fledgling social network. Google+ is taking a lot of heat for mimicking Facebook features without providing any major value proposition that will make more of the incumbent social network’s 800 million-plus users leave the […]

Led by advertising sales, worldwide social media revenue will grow 50 percent in 2012 from 2011, rising from a projected $10.3 billion this year to $14.9 billion next year and more than $29 billion by 2015, according to Gartner research. Social media advertising revenue, including money earned from display ads and digital video commercials across […]

Another Chicken Little has surfaced to cry the sky is falling on Google+, or at least talk about how much the social network blatantly mimics Facebook and that’s why it won’t succeed. Normally, this is grain-of-salt fodder from tech pundits like myself. But this rant comes from Steve Yegge, a 6-year-plus Google veteran who accidentally […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has launched a remote desktop software extension that will let users access another computer through the company’s Chrome Web browser from afar. Available for free download from Google’s Chrome Web Store, Chrome Remote Desktop Beta enables users access another computer (or share their own computer with others) using a single authentication code. The […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will report third-quarter earnings after the bell Oct. 13, and while financial analysts are expecting the search engine provider to reveal a solid quarter overall, they will certainly be grilling Google on its pending acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), as well as momentum for its new social network. Google’s third-quarter net revenue is […]

LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) Oct. 11 acquired its second company in less than a week, picking up enterprise search provider IndexTank for an undisclosed sum. The deal comes six days after the professional networking company acquired contact management software maker Connected Oct. 5, also for an undisclosed sum. Both purchases are intended to fortify LinkedIn’s platform for […]

AT&T (NYSE:T) is working with an enterprise device management software maker to create AT&T Toggle, a software application that separates sensitive corporate data from personal data for employees using Android smartphones or tablets for work and play. Toggle is based on software developed by startup Enterproid, which just banked $11 million in funding led by […]

Stratosphere Verizon will begin selling the Samsung Stratosphere Galaxy 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone Oct. 13 for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year data contract. The Stratosphere is Samsung’s first 4G LTE handset with a QWERTY keyboard. It’s a business-geared phone, including several enterprise security and management features including Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Cisco […]

At a time when the majority of blog posts concerning Google+ either have the social network credibly challenging Facebook or dying on the vine, GigaOm’s Matt Ingram offers a refreshingly balanced summary of what people may or may not be getting out of Google+ to keep them there. His conclusion is that he’s not sure […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired a small social analytics startup called SocialGrapple, but won’t disclose any other information about the deal other than that the company’s founder is joining the company. SocialGrapple was created by Andrey Petrov, who described the tool as a Twitter analytics tool that tracks changes in a user’s social graph and sends […]