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“Googlization of Everything” Good Primer for Antitrust Authorities

There's a lot to say about Siva Vaidhyanathan's "The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)," published last month by The University of...

Jaiku Co-Founder Discusses Google Buyout Disaster

Remember back in October 2007 when Google acquired Jaiku, the mobile microblogging tool?Some people, including myself, thought the startup would become for Google what...

Amazon Offers Android Phone Buyers $25 Appstore Credit

Amazon.com's Android activities continue to attract the attention of us media types, as the company quietly offered customers who buy an Android smartphone or...

Why Android Is Still the Underdog to the iPhone

Android fans bask in the glow of the platform's 33 percent U.S. market share, which is 8 percentage points higher than Apple's iPhone share,...

Apple’s Cloud iTunes Beating Google Music to Market? Duh

Reuters reported that Apple has finished its cloud-based music service and will launch it before Google in news that should come as a shock...

Google M&A Fortune-telling Merry-go-round

Anyone else think Google will become more or less acquisitive with Larry Page as CEO?Page replaced Eric Schmidt at the controls April 4. Since...

Google Toolbar 7 Gets Google Instant Predictive Search

Google April 19 jazzed up Google Toolbar 7 for Internet Explorer with Google Instant, the company's predictive search technology.Google Instant surfaces search results to...

Google News Becoming Palette for Twitter, Social Web

Has anyone else noticed the new tweets section when you click into full coverage pages of Google News?Now when you click on a news...

Why Android, iOS App Development is No Zero Sum Game

For those interested in Google's Android platform, you must read Fred Vogelstein's latest piece in Wired when he calls attention to a number of...

HTC Thunderbolt Tops iPhone 4 in Fickle Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis software specialist SocialNuggets April 13 published a brief blog post noting how HTC handsets dominated the iPhone in social media buzz through...