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Under Google, Motorola Will Focus on a Few Great Devices
The Motorola acquisition is officially done. It's been many months in the making, but as one of the largest such deals and certainly Google's biggest acquisition, it underwent quite a lot of scrutiny. China was the last to give the go-ahead, but once it got that approval, Google was quick to make the official announcement.
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Blogger Replaces Official Draft Blog with Google+ Page
Google has been very bullish over its "social layer" Google+. It's constantly promoting it, building it into its other products and generally making sure that anyone who uses any Google product stumbles upon, if is not outright forced to use, it.
Blogger has been no stranger to this, the site has gotten quite a few Google+ embellishme...
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Google Buys Stake in Popular YouTube Channel Machinima, in $35(?27.38) Million Round
Machinima, the company behind the very popular YouTube channel, has confirmed that it's raised some $35 million in a funding round led by Google. Existing investors also pitched in, but Google was the main investor, confirming previous rumors.
The move signals a very big, albeit predictable and long ti...
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Court Forces Site That Didn't Keep Logs to Provide Log Data in Grooveshark Lawsuit
Grooveshark's future is bleak, if only because of the many lawsuits that it's trapped in. The site may win the lawsuits and still go under, as it happened to MP3tunes. But it seems that Grooveshark is not content with fighting the lawsuits brought upon it, it's actively seeking out time in court.
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Gmail Only Now Adds Search Suggestions Based on Your Emails
Google's core aptitude is search and, even as it tries to reinvent itself as a polyvalent company, search still is what it does best. And from time to time it remembers that. It has now improved the autocomplete system in Gmail search with customized data.
The autocomplete feature, same as the Google Search one, provides q...
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China Approves Google's Motorola Acquisition as Long as Android Stays Open Source
Google is finally free to acquire Motorola and will probably do it this week after China has given its go-ahead on the deal. Both the EU and the US had agreed to the deal. China was the last hurdle. Google announced that it would be acquiring Motorola in August last year, but the huge deal had to go t...
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Game of Thrones Is the Most Pirated TV Show, Australia Leads the Way
Game of Thrones' popularity on TV is only equaled, and in fact surpassed, by its popularity online, this despite the fact that the show is not legally available online. The show is on its way to becoming the most downloaded TV show of the year and each episode gets as many as four million downloads within a week of it becoming available, just as many as watch it legally in the US on HBO. Granted, the show is great and that accounts for its popularity, but a big factor ...
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YouTube's 7th Birthday Marks Three Days of Video Uploaded Each Minute
YouTube is celebrating its seventh birthday, more specifically, the date the site first went live to the public. It's been a tremendous seven years, but YouTube still has a lot of growing to do. YouTube is celebrating the occasion with some stats, impressive ones at that.
But those stats are becoming less and les...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Marries the Day After Historic IPO
It's been quite a week for Facebook CEO and visionary Mark Zuckerberg as he's seen two long-term investments pay off. For one, Facebook, the company he founded eight years ago in his Harvard dorm room, has gone public in one of the biggest deals of its kind in history.
Eager to wrap things up with the other half of his life, ...
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$7.1 Billion, ?5.55 Billion Manage to Convince Yahoo to Part with Alibaba Stake
Yahoo has finally done it. No, it hasn't found a way to pull itself up or finally found a CEO to lead it to a better fortune, but it has gotten rid of its stake in Alibaba. Yahoo has been struggling for years and it has gotten to the point where the company is valued mostly for its Asian investments, in Alibaba in Chin...
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Google Chrome Overtakes Internet Explorer for an Entire Week
Google Chrome is now officially the top browser in the world, at least judging by StatCounter data. Last week Chrome overtook Internet Explorer for the entire period for the first time in history. Google Chrome has been more popular than IE in the weekends and saw its market share constantly grow larger, week after week, month after m...
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Who Got Rich in the Facebook IPO
Facebook's IPO came and went without a hitch. Stock price didn't surge in the first day as some expected, in fact it needed some help to stay above the initial price. But all that means is that Facebook made as much money as it could have in the deal. It netted some $16 billion, €12.6 billion in one day at a valuation of over $100 billion, &euro...
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Twitter Partners with NASCAR for Full Coverage During Pocono 400
Twitter is continuing its expansion into the media world. More than just about any other social network, Twitter has struck a chord with old school media, TV, movies and sports. Celebrities and sports personalities alike enjoy huge followings on Twitter and most users want to feel connected and closer to these people via Twitter.
Twitter is now taking it to the next stage, partnering with NASCAR to provide a unified experience. Twitter will be debuting a new tool, as part of this ...
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Top Universities in the 2012 Google Summer of Code
Google's Summer of Code 2012 is a done deal, well in the sense that the students have all been picked, all that's left to do now is the actual coding. But Google's been keeping things interesting with some stats about the entire selection process.1212 students were admitted this year, more than in any previous years and, of course, a lo...
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You Can Customize WordPress Themes Before Activating Them
With millions of people (still) blogging and more starting, it's important that you stand out in some way, especially if you're sharing a blogging platform with millions of other people.The best way to stand out is with great content, of course, but equally important is to make a good first impression and then to keep peo...
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Chrome to Pre-Render Sites More Often, Webmasters Need Not Worry Google Says
Google has announced that it will start using its pre-rendering technology in Chrome more often, as it's now more confident in its efficacy. It announced this on its webmasters blog since these are the people that are going to be the most affected by the move. Pre-rendering, like the name suggests, starts l...
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Mozilla Lauds Twitter's "Do Not Track" Adoption
Mozilla finally has something to brag about when it comes to Do Not Track and brag it does. Mozilla's privacy lead Alex Fowler praises Twitter for its adoption of the Do Not Track header and is sharing some numbers about adoption, which are quite impressive.
Do Not Track was introduced about a year ago by Mozilla, it's been av...
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Twitter Will Customize Suggestions by Tracking the Sites You Visit
Twitter has started experimenting with customizing follow suggestions based on your interests. That sounds like a good idea, it's getting harder and harder to find people to follow on Twitter and the problem is bigger for new users.
Twitter suggests accounts you may want to follow when you first sign up, based on wh...
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How to Keep Your Twitter Account Hidden from Google
Twitter, by and large, is a public place. People tweet things they want many others to see. Twitter doesn't require people to use their real name, yet a lot of people do. But Twitter's fast paced nature has people churning out tweets that may not seem such a good idea a second later.
They can delete them of course, but the ephemer...
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Firefox 13 Comes with a ?Reset? Button for Factory Defaults
Mozilla has been working on this for a while, the support team has wanted it for a long time, but Firefox now comes with a "reset" button. The buttons is akin to "reset to factory defaults" in that it resets all settings to their defaults, but it does not delete any user data. This last part is very important and it is the difference between a fresh, clean install and a reset. The "reset" button works in a simple way, it saves your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and form data, but ...
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Twitter Now Supports Firefox's "Do Not Track"
Mozilla's pioneering Do Not Track initiative, which has since been co-opted into an industry standard, not yet finished, paved the way for a different approach to privacy, one in which users had at least some say and control.
Do Not Track is by no means perfect, but it's a big step forward. One of the big problems with this appr...
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More Indian ISPs Block Torrent Sites, Dailymotion, Even Xmarks
Private companies are continuing to play with what millions of internet users in India can and cannot see. Last week, several BitTorrent sites along with other stranger choices like Vimeo were blocked by at least one ISP. Now, others are joining, though the original block has been lifted in some cases.
There's also no coun...
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Thunderbird 15 Gets "Do Not Track" Privacy Header Option
Mozilla is expanding the scope of the Do Not Track header, which is on its way of becoming an industry standard. It's been added to Firefox a year ago and now it's making its way into Thunderbird. You may not think ad tracking has anything to do with an email client, but there are several ways of tracking email recipients as well, albeit much more limited than what's possible on the web.
Now, in the latest Mozilla Thunderbird 15, users have the ability to set their email client to...
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1 in 5 Page Views Happens on Facebook
Facebook is big, that's not news to anyone, so it's going to generate some pretty impressive stats month after month. Still, it's interesting to note just how big the site is, it's on its way to becoming the largest website on the planet and it would already be that if divided Google and the others by product rather than by domain.
Nine percent...
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Japan's Rakuten Buys Into Pinterest in Monster $1.5 Billion, ?1.18 Billion Round
Pinterest has been growing like crazy, even if it's slowing down a bit. It's like nothing we've seen before, though it will likely be overtaken by some hot new startup in the coming years. In the meantime, Pinterest is the company to watch. It's no surprise then that it's been able to raise funds at a rat...
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Google Music Is Forced to Limit Users Due to "Piracy"
No matter what you think about piracy it's hard to argue against the fact that many times it's easier to pirate something than it is to pay for it. If you grab a bunch of albums from The Pirate Bay, you can listen to them however you want, move them to any of your devices and share them with friends.If you buy the same al...
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Google's Knowledge Graph Is the Biggest Update to Search in Years
Google has started rolling out the semantic search update we've been hearing about all year. The feature actually started showing up in searches over the last few days and has been in testing for a lot longer than that.It may not seem like it at first, but the new Knowledge Graph is a major update for Google...
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Only 1 in 3 Google+ Users Ever Publishes Something and It Gets Worse After That
Google+ has been going great, if you listen to Google, it's always adding new users and growing in the metrics "that matter," to Google at least. In the metric that seems to be the most important, engagement, Google+ is fluttering. Of course, saying that something is doomed is even more enticing than saying something is the greatest invention since the dawn of time, though the truth is mostly somewhere in the middle.
Still, some newer data indicates that engagement is rather poor ...
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Firefox 15 to Fix All Common Add-On Memory Leaks
About a week ago, Mozilla was talking about a patch that fixed most of the biggest and most common memory problems related to add-ons. The biggest leaks were fixed, making a huge difference for users, however, the patch also caused other memory leaks for add-ons created with older versions of the Add-on SDK.
At the time, it looked li...
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Google Maps Gets "Home" and "Work" Location Shortcuts
Google is adding a small but useful new feature to Google Maps, the ability to save your home and work locations for quick access, especially when getting directions. Users can already save locations they use often and places they check into are saved automatically.
Now, the My Places tab also houses quick links ...
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