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Google AdMob Launches Interactive Video Ads for Android

Google's display and mobile ad businesses may be chugging along at a combined $3.5 billion run-rate for the year, but competition from Apple's iAd...

Facebook-like Social Games to Rule Google TV, Apple TV: Cuban

When it comes to TV consumption, I respect Mark Cuban's opinion quite a bit, so I paid close attention to two of his recent...

Google Creep Exemplified in Stats: Royal Pingdom

Royal Pingdom offered a fun post Oct. 19 dealing with one of my favorite topics: Google Creep.Google Creep is my nickname for the spread...

Facebook Developer: Android Only Open Is as Open Does

File this under: Kettle, meet Pot.Renowned Mozilla Firefox browser/Facebook for iPhone developer (turned Facebook for Android developer?) Joe Hewitt joined Apple CEO Steve Jobs...

Google Search Getting More Social with Shared By Links

Google has recently started running a new search engine experiment that provides "shared by" and "recent updates" links to Twitter tweets and Facebook and...

Google Adding Location Tab to Search Results Pages

Less than two weeks after we learn that Marissa Mayer has been moved over to run Google's geo/local efforts, the search engine she helped...

Google Street View Sets Stage for Matrix-like Online Gaming

Google could use its Street View imagery as the backdrop for the company's online gaming strategy if it chose to pursue this avenue.That's the...

Android 2.1, 2.2 Creep to Nearly 75% of Google Handsets

As Google scrambles to get Android 3.0 out the door, the company's most-recent iterations of the open-source operating system have combined to comprise 73.8...

Mark Zuckerberg Believes Google Has No Incentive to Innovate

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes some flak for being nervous when he speaks, but he was quite clear about what he thinks of Google...

Mayer’s Move to Head Google’s Local Efforts is a Wise One

By now most people who care enough have weighed in about the promotion of Marissa Mayer, Google's longtime vice president of search and user...