Google announced a new version of Google Maps at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday. The new avatar lets users personalize their maps, and enables 3D rendering of buildings during a search, among other things. The new Google Maps instantly…
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Google gets into the music business, with the launch of a music service over the cloud. The service, with a rather elaborate name - Google Play Music All Access, is a monthly music subscription service that lets users listen to songs across…
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Google CEO Larry Page has a rare medical condition, where his vocal chords have limited movement. The cause of the paralysis could not be determined. It is quite common in cases like these, that a definitive cause is not found,…
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Google users get 10GB free storage on Gmail, and 5GB for Google Drive and Google+ photos. If you needed more storage, you had to sign up for a 25GB or 100GB or 200GB monthly plan, for $2.49 or $4.99 or…
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Syria seems to have been completely cut off from the Internet, according to various monitoring agencies. According to data just released by Google, Internet access has been completely cut off in Syria in the past few hours. Mobile phones and landlines…
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Google has acquired a minority stake in online personal loans platform Lending Club, says the company. The investment by Google came as part of a secondary transaction whereby new and existing investors acquired shares from existing investors. Buyers include Google and…
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Nook HD and Nook HD+ users can now access the 700,000 apps and games available for the Android market, with Google Play, on their devices. Nook tablets will also include Google services like the Chrome browser, Gmail, YouTube, Google Search…
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Google’s personal assistant service Google Now is now available on iPhone and iPads. Should Siri be scared? Nah. The two services complement each other. A quick look. What can Google Now do? Like Siri, Google Now can process some amount…
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Israel-based Perion Network has signed a two-year, non-exclusive, renewal with Google, extending the company’s eight-year relationship with the search provider. While the terms of the deal were not revealed, Josef Mandelbaum, Perion’s CEO, says the business terms are slightly better…
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Google has reportedly acquired Wavii, a Seattle-based startup that is umm, ‘making Facebook out of Google’. Using big-data machine learning, Wavii pulls in everything being created across the Web in real-time (e.g., articles, blogs, tweets, pictures), analyzes the content, and…
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