Clint Boulton

One of Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) stated goals for Google+ has been to stitch the social network into the broad mesh of its Web services, and the work is well underway. A Google engineer has crafted a way to surface in the Gmail people widget the most recent Google+ post that the sender of an email shared […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Aug. 22 launched a Google TV software module to help developers begin building Web TV applications and eventually offer them through the search engine’s Android Market. Google last October launched Google TV, a Web television platform based on the open-source Android operating system that lets users surf the Web and TV channels with […]

Leave it to a venture capitalist to cut through the clutter of punditry, follow the money and point to the next possible direction for Google if it succeeds in buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion this year or the next. Writing for Xconomy, Morgenthaler Ventures’ Rebecca Flynn outlines an insightful scenario where she sees Google’s […]

Google+ Boss Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of social for Google. Google+ engineers report to Gundotra, so if there is an update coming from some obscure corner of the + engineering team, Gundotra will reshare it to call it to the attention of his followers. The Lieutenant Another key Googler responsible for Google+ is Bradley […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system rose to 52 percent of units sold for the second quarter, posting its highest share ever in the United States, according to The NPD Group. Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS grew to 29 percent in Q2, while Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry OS continued to fall, dropping to 11 percent. Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) […]

When it comes to socially oriented mobile applications, Facebook and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) tend to be among the leaders in mind and market share. Facebook just launched Facebook Messenger, and Google+ includes Hangouts and Huddle apps. Microsoft wants to play there as well via Bing. The company launched We’re In, an application for Windows Phone 7 […]

Facebook’s poaching of Googlers has been going on since about 2005 or 2006, but it really came to a head in March 2008 when the social network revealed that it had lured Google’s chief ad executive Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg, who would eventually lure her former ad comrade David Fischer from Google, has been the COO […]

The use, or lack thereof, of common names on Google+ isn’t the only identity crisis the social network faces. There’s also the issue of verifying whether Google+ profiles have really been created by celebrities or are simply forgeries from people hoping for a laugh. To solve this issue, Google has started rolling out verification badges […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) $12.5 billion purchase offer for Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI) is regarded by most industry watchers as a bid to secure patent protection, but one of the ancillary benefits is an opportunity to fortify the search engine’s Web television service. Unlike the new Google+ social network the company appears to have poured its heart and […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could build as much as $10 billion in operating profit by closing its Android operating system for use by Motorola Mobility (NYSE:MMI), following in Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) footsteps. That’s the back-of-the-envelope math from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who calculated the success Google could have if it acquires Motorola and transitions Android from an […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) is planting seeds to whet the public’s appetites for its forthcoming tablet and it received some help from comScore this past week to heap on the hype. The e-commerce giant is widely expected to launch a low-cost tablet computer based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system in October. The expectation of another Android […]

Google Maps has many layers but it’s just gotten perhaps one of its more important layers since traffic patterns: weather. This makes total sense. People often use Google Maps to plot travel courses for pleasure and business. One of the main factors that influence travel is weather, so the lack of this layer on Google […]