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04.6.09 / Venture Capital, Google-Style

Not content in doing practically everything there is to do online, Google has now branched out into the venture capital business with Google Ventures, a venture capital arm of parent company Google charged with the broad-reaching mission of building great … Read more »

04.6.09 / Eyes Free App for G1

Two Google engineers, T.V. Raman and Charles Chen developed an app for the T-Mobile G1 the device can be used eyes free, reported the New York Times.  T.V. Raman, who is blind, says the app is not only for those … Read more »

04.1.09 / YouTube Clips ABC, ESPN

YouTube and Disney have announced a partnership that will smooth the way for ABC and ESPN content to appear on YouTube, the number one online video site.  But don’t look for any full-length ABC or ESPN content on YouTube anytime … Read more »

03.31.09 / Google Looks to Link TV, YouTube Advertising Businesses

Google is developing technology that would connect its TV advertising business to YouTube, giving marketers a seamless way to buy advertising space on both venues, as well as additional websites, reports the Wall Street Journal.  Such technology is vital for … Read more »

03.31.09 / Rethinking Free in a Down Economy

Not so long ago, you could have collected enough of those “Try AOL for Free” installation disks to shoot skeet—for free—for the rest of your life.  The move may have backfired for AOL, but in the Great Recession of 2008-2009, … Read more »

03.27.09 / Sony, Google Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle

In what appears to be a direct shot at the Amazon Kindle, Sony and Google are teaming up to give users of the Sony Reader access to more than 500,000 public domain books from Google Books, Google’s book digitization project, … Read more »

03.25.09 / Develop It Once, Run It Anywhere, Key Theme at SWANH Mobile Application Platform Symposium

Decreasing the total cost of development and deployment . . . lowering the complexity . . . leveraging standard technologies and tools.  With hundreds of mobile phone service providers, thousands of devices, and scores of operating systems to choose from, … Read more »

03.24.09 / Google to Use Behavioral Advertising to Place Display and Text Ads

Long a sideline sitter on the behavioral advertising playing field, web giant Google will now start selling display and text ads using behavioral advertising, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The practice, which places advertising on the web pages a user … Read more »

03.19.09 / Web Ad Research Program to be Funded by Google and WPP

Internet search ad behemoth Google and advertising communications giant WPP announced a $4.6 million, three year program to study the interplay between advertisements in traditional media and digital media in influencing consumer decisions, reports the Wall Street Journal.  The move … Read more »

03.16.09 / Is Google Voice Necessary?

Google acquired GrandCentral in July 2007 and has been quiet about it since, until now.  Google has created a new and improved service, Google Voice, that was available to existing GrandCentral customers last Thursay.  The GrandCentral technology allows users to … Read more »