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Google, H&M wants your phone to design your next dress

While our favourite garments aren’t as unique as we believe them to be, how we combine these pieces defines our individual style. But can…

Google Maps for Android has just become a lot more useful

Google Maps’ latest Android update is introducing a little context and information tab at the bottom of the app’s screen. The app, which still…

Google South Africa reveals top searches for 2016

From the US elections and Donald Trump to Pokemon Go and the Olympics, 2016 has been another crazy year for Google searches. Now, the Mountain…

Google’s Trusted Contacts is the app parents will love

Once upon a time, you could keep track of your friends’ and family’s whereabouts using Google Plus. But that was the complicated past. Today,…

Google Trips: how does it fare against its competition?

When Google Trips launched in September to little fanfare we covered it here at Memeburn, noting that it arrives as a big upgrade to…

Here’s how Google Play is using AI to improve search

Trying to find an app on the Google Play Store can be an exercise in frustration, especially if it’s an eagerly anticipated app or…

Google Search shows how much SA cares about ‘Donald Trump’

Google News Labs’ US Elections hub is about as interesting as the elections itself. Graphing its slew of data garnered from daily search habits,…

Google looking to add Swahili, Igbo, Zulu to Translate roster

Google is looking to add a number of African languages, including Hausa, Igbo, Zulu and Swahili to Google Translate. A post on Google Africa’s…

Pay per gaze — has Google gone one step too far?

Google is well known for being innovative in the online advertising space. Its flagship advertising program, Adwords, has grossed over $50bn since its inception…

Google’s Matt Cutts: +1s don’t affect search ranking

It looks like Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts has threw the SEO crowd another curve-ball when he took to Hacker News to…

Google celebrates Claude Debussy’s birthday with moonlit musical doodle

Google’s recent interactive doodles have involved everything from bacteria to Ferris Wheels, but today the tech giant proved it could also bring some subtle…

New Gmail is filtering out its biggest competition: others in email marketing

Promotional email has long been an effective way of delivering opt-in commercial messages and many have rediscovered this method after experimenting with advertising, social…

Google is forcing a massive change in PR: here’s how

I’ve long warned that PR companies would be subject to similar forces of disruption that have been destroying the media sector for the past…

Google to let you check flight statuses, package info in the near future

If you want to know whether your flight is delayed or where exactly that package you ordered a few days ago is, you could…

Watch this Hangout with Sir Richard Branson, Elon Musk right now

Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson have launched some of the most successful and innovative businesses on the planet. Space X, Virgin Galactic, PayPal,…

Why the Publicis, Omnicom merger really could hurt Google, Facebook

The recent announcement of the Omnicom and Publicis $35bn merger to create the world’s largest advertising company, is all about gaining the upper hand…

Google launches Views, allows you to add 360 degree panoramas to Maps

This looks pretty cool. Google has launched a community site called Views, which allows you to upload and share panoramic 360% photos to Maps….

Want to attract great software engineers? Offer life extension tech

Competition for software engineers is incredibly intense and Silicon Valley firms are pulling out all the stops to recruit and retain top talent. A…

Will it be third time lucky for Google TV with Chromecast?

Google’s recent Chromecast announcement sent flutters across the net as it drew the battle line with rivals like Apple and Netflix. Although Chromecast is…

Google’s Schmidt pays for UK tax comments, gets the tabloid treatment

Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, recently made a flip comment in the UK in response to news that the tech giant paid just $16m…

Google testing out Helpouts, a commerce solution for Hangouts

Google’s been pretty good at spinning money out of all its products over the years but one area its been putting a lot of…

Feel like a hike in Japan? You can ‘climb’ Mount Fuji with Google Street View

They trekked through the Grand Canyon and the deserted island of Hashima. They went to the top of the tallest building in the world…

Why Google’s major AdWords switch has big implications for online marketing

Google has made many sweeping changes to how Google Adwords works since it was launched in 2000. But the introduction of “enhanced campaigns” is…

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