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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Microsoft’s Bing Ads has joined the Ads Integrity Alliance, a group of companies that work together against online ads that deliver malware, direct users to scams, or try to sell counterfeit goods. Launched in 2012 with AOL, Facebook, Google, Interactive Advertising…
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Google is expanding the company’s Lenoir, N.C. data center. Google’s local electricity provider, Duke Energy, has pledged to develop a new program for large companies, who want to buy renewable power for their operations, says Google in a blog post. . Duke is…
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Microsoft and Hon Hai (the parent company of Foxconn) signed a worldwide patent licensing agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio. The deal covers devices running the Android and Chrome OS, including smartphones, tablets and televisions. While the…
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The Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, says the Linux Foundation. The Xen Project is an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed for cloud computing,…
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The three member team from MIT of Nadav Aharony, Alan Gardner, and Cody Sumter, that started Behavio, is joining Google. The company is closing shop. Behavio worked on the social and behavioral side of Android apps. Dr. Aharony was a…
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Google has launched Google Keep, an Android app that can store notes, photos, voice memos and checklists. Google Keep stores your notes on the Cloud, and even transcribes your voice notes automatically. You can color-code your notes, or archive them, and…
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