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Check out how Google makes money from mobile [Infographic]

We know Google’s big in mobile. If it wasn’t Android probably wouldn’t be the most widely distributed smartphone OS on the planet and the…

Oscar Pistorius outstrips Lance Armstrong, Tiger on Google search

Searches for Oscar Pistorius, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of 14 February, have outstripped those for…

Given a little more energy Steve Jobs would’ve built an Apple car

This is interesting. Tucked away in Nick Bilton’s New York Times article about Apple potentially building an iWatch is a revelation that Steve Jobs…

China is the perfect place for Google’s self-driving car: here’s why

Like any fan of things that are totally awesome, I have been following the process of Google’s self-driving car pretty closely. Yesterday, I came…

Self-driving cars: Google’s greatest act of obfuscation?

It’s remarkable how few journalists understand Google’s business and how what it does or doesn’t do affects massive volumes of commerce around the globe….

How fake press releases could kill SEO for real press releases

SearchEngineLand has a very good, long look at the recent fake press release announcing Google’s US$400-million acquisition of Wi-Fi company ICOA. PRWeb distributed the…

Is the internet poised to get an owner?

Who owns the internet? Anybody will tell you that no-one owns the internet. It consist of about 40 000 networks interconnecting with some 425…

Google’s Schmidt to get $100-million, possible TV talk show

Google’s outgoing chief executive Eric Schmidt, who is set to step down in April for co-founder Larry Page, is set to receive US$100-million in…

Google in search of its mojo

Google, the internet darling of what could be termed the “web 2.0” era is searching for its mojo in the era of the social…

Major shake-up as Google sees Larry Page elevated to CEO

In an effort to shake up its internal culture and processes, Google announced that one of its co-founders, Larry Page, would replace industry veteran…

Google software unblocked for Iranian citizens but not govt

Since 2009, Google has been blocked from providing software downloads to Iran. However, Google announced on its blog that some of the US government’s…

Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies

Fifteen years ago two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hypothesised that there was a better way to find information on…

Google pushes free video codec for HTML5

Google has taken a neutral approach to HTML5 video since it was first suggested, but now it seems like it has chosen a side…

China’s Baidu launches English blog as part of global push

Backing up its intention to expand globally, Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched an English-language blog on the country’s online culture, a company…

Google appoints 33-year-old Kenyan to head Africa policy

Google’s new appointment of a 33-year-old Kenyan to manage its Africa policy has been described as a “coup” by authoritative US technology magazine FastCompany….

Google wants you to move from ‘OS and hard-drive’ to ‘browser and cloud”

At the same time that Google released the Chrome 8 browser, it also released its much-anticipated Chrome Web Store. The simultaneous release signals Google’s…

Google keeps the faith with MySpace search, ads

MySpace on Thursday announced that Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online social network under pressure to improve its…

Microsoft’s Bing opens new front against arch-rival Google via Facebook

It looks like Microsoft may be making that tiny 1.6% share it owns in Facebook work just a little bit harder. Microsoft has announced…

Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google

Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…

Russia’s DST backs Groupon’s rejection of Google

Alexander Tamas, partner at Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon, defended Groupon’s rejection of Google’s acquisition bid,…

Five difficulties facing startups in China

There’s a legend about a Chinese monk who, after years of meditating atop a high, isolated mountain, envisioned the world’s first circular disk. Careful…

Kindle eBooks now operate through web browsers

Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people’s digital collections saved in the…

Google intensifying efforts to combat online piracy

Google unveiled new tactics to thwart “bad apples” that post or share pirated material on the internet. “As the web has grown, we have…

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