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It's something the best of magicians do seamlessly: distract you with one hand so that you don't even notice the other hand is doing anything at all.

TC reported a few weeks back that Google would be pushing out their own Android device in early '10 and now it appears that Giz has some insider knowledge as well.

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that their high-profile, proposed search and advertising partnership has been cleared by antitrust officials in Canada and Australia, positive developments for the companies as they await a related decision from U.S. regulators.

Why Google should be looking over its shoulder A visitor passes a Google exhibition in Duesseldorf, Germany.

The forum is meant to help devise ways to combat double-digit unemployment. The White House said there would be approximately 130 attendees at the jobs forum ranging from small business owners to academics.

Microsoft has launched a new mobile ad product that combines mobile search and display.

Industry observers weigh in on News Corp.'s rumored gamble on barring Google from indexing its news sites.

ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, IN JANUARY 2000 , America Online CEO Steve Case announced one of the boldest, craziest ideas in modern business history: a $182 billion stock-and-debt deal to buy mighty Time Warner, creating an Internet and media colossus with a combined market cap of $350 billion.

Electronic mail is so 1996. Will "Waving" replace it? Email is antiquated. We need a better way to get things done online than hitting "reply all" to long message chains and sending constantly updated attachments.

'Godfather of Spam' Alan Ralsky and three associates sentenced for stock fraud spam scheme Nov 25, 2009 02:17 PM Notorious spammer Alan M. Ralsky, from West Bloomfield, Mich., was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Monday for his involvement in a stock fraud spam scheme.

Google fights for net neutrality and the right to index all of the world's information for free.

Google's new open source Chrome operating system won't be officially available until dedicated devices hit the market next year.

Yet another Google property, Google Earth, is getting ads. The move comes as Google has introduced advertising over the last year to a set of its properties that were previously unmonetized, including Google Finance, Google Image Search, and even its "search suggest function"; the company has also lately emphasized geo-targeted advertising on ...

The economy is still weak but markets are functioning and buyers are buying and sellers are selling.

If you have spent the past year in a bunker you can be forgiven for losing sight of the big picture.

There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday.

Publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may pull some of their stories from Google Inc.'s news site, a move that would emulate News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch.

Even though Yahoo has been cutting costs and jobs over the past few years and losing some of its hold on the Internet search market to Google and Microsoft, it looks like they're moving forward with a plan to develop a massive campus in Santa Clara.

THE Iraqi Government launched an official YouTube channel today, joining the White House, Britain's Royal Family, the Pope and others on the Google-owned video-sharing site.

Google has just launched a mobile version of its Google Search results for movies.

Google Inc. will use viewer data from digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. to help measure audiences for its TV advertising business.

Google is corralling developers into uploading their Chrome browser extensions to a new gallery that hasn't been opened up to testers yet.

The Internet giant is expected to extend its Maps Navigation to Europe and crowd out smaller players.

Google Tightens BlackBerry Integration Google upgrades its Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry, adding scale to its apps for users of the popular smartphone.

At one point in time US President John F. Kennedy triumphantly declared "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in a speech to the German people.

Denver's MediaNews Group Inc. , publisher of The Denver Post , intends to block some of its online content from Google's news website, according to a news report Tuesday.

Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

TiVo Inc. , the creator of and a leader in television services and advertising solutions for digital video recorders , today announced that it has entered into an audience research agreement with Google Inc.

Google chief Eric Schmidt, front, is welcomed by Qais Rasheed, chairman of the state board of antiquities and heritage,left, as U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, second left, looks on outside the Iraq's national museum, in Baghdad, on Tuesday, Nov.

Cue the rep: "We don't comment on rumor and speculation," said company spokesman Ricardo Reyes, according to Wired.Com. Inside Line asks, "Is a Tesla IPO Imminent? writing, "Tesla's financial prospects have greatly improved this year.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that Chrome OS and Android are likely to merge at some point, say reports.

If news publishers with the heft of News Corp. start seeking out alternatives to Google Inc.'s online search index, it could have an intangible, but potentially significant impact on the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant.

Between 700 and 800 of those Google New Yorkers are engineers. What, exactly, are they up to? Engineering director Craig Nevill-Manning tells us New York's engineers work together with Mountain View engineers on almost everything Google does, including search and user-interfaces. But Craig said there are some Google products that either originated ...

Filed under: Internet , Google , Microsoft , Cisco Systems , Amazon.com , EMC Corp , Technology Amazon, Inc.

TomTom shares have lost their sense of direction over the last month, with the stock down by more than a third, as worries about competition and third-quarter earnings lead the stock off route.

How FOSSy is Google, really? "I find it kinda funny that folks tout that Google uses Linux when the most useful tool they have developed -- the Google FS -- they keep internally and therefore don't have to share the code!" observed Slashdot blogger hairyfeet.

Google executives, including CEO Eric Schmidt , have downplayed the conflict ever since, asking for time to let the projects evolve.

When I examined the trading patterns in Google's stock between earnings reports, I found little consistency for forming a trading strategy.

Rupert Murdoch and his senior execs at News Corp, and Wall Street Journal have been getting a lot of publicity this year for their complaints against Google and news aggregators.

As 2002 began, Google faced an uncertain future. Founded a little more than three years earlier by Stanford computer-science students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company was running the most popular search engine in the world, but it had yet to figure out a way to turn a decent profit.

Back in the day, it was bigger than Google, at least in terms of investment hype.

SAN FRANCISCO , Nov 20 - Silicon Valley electric sports car maker Tesla Motors is planning to go public soon, two people familiar with the situation said, outlining plans to sell stock and cash in on investor appetite for green technology and interest in battery-powered vehicles.

Ed Lu, the former astronaut who now works as a program manager for advanced projects at Google, says that Google does not see PowerMeter, the software it created for monitoring energy in your home, as a way to make money.

Hey, Googlers, We're Downstairs! Update 4: We just met Ari Paparo! W00t! And let us tell you, he is anything but "low level." Update 3: Now we're getting there.

"This really is a browser with an OS attached rather than vice versa. You get your tab-based navigation up top, and the focus is of course on the internet, with minimal option buttons on the far right and app launchers at the top left.

Your holiday shopping list probably includes gadgets, games and gizmos that illustrate how technology is changing the way we work, play and communicate.

Revenue growth at Firefox-owner The Mozilla Foundation is slowing. Chairwoman Mitchell Baker said in her annual "state of Mozilla" letter that the foundation's revenue - which it generates primarily from its deal to make Google the default search engine on its browser - increased five percent year-over-year. That, however, includes heavy losses at ...

When people around the world try to explain the American system of entrepreneurship, they often point to venture capital.

"Google Inc. has a problem, and it's not a technical problem," said serial entrepreneur Keith Teare on Tuesday while speaking in New York on a panel about the future of search engines at Betaday, an annual event hosted by innovative incubator Betaworks for its portfolio companies.

In the global war for talent, the likely winners are U.S.-based global companies that offer border-crossing career opportunities and appeal to the wanderlust of a new generation.

Dell Inc. may be moving closer to entering the U.S. smartphone market, according to recent regulatory filings.

AOL will be officially put out on its own as of Dec. 9, Time Warner has announced.

Google battling to rule VoIP. Google has begun the battle for VoIP supremacy, writes Garry Barker.

Google takes the wraps off its Chrome operating system on Thursday but it isn't expected to launch until next year.

November 18, 2009, 10:40 AM - PC World - Google phone rumors are back with a vengeance, spurred on by reports that the Internet behemoth Google is partnering with phone maker HTC on a "super" Android device thinner than the Droid and iPhone.

Google's Matt Cutts hinted this past week that Google is considering using a site's speed as part of the algorithm that ranks the order of pages on Google.

New templates and a public gallery for Google Sites are designed for intranets, projects, team sites, employee profile pages and more.

Google on Thursday will give a technical update on its Chrome OS. The company is holding an event at its Mountain View campus.

Google's YouTube is making another pitch to media organizations, this time with a tool that makes it easy for news sites to solicit videos from their visitors.

The amputation is nearly complete. Time Warner will spin off its struggling America Online unit on Dec.

Last January, on the eve of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage and announced his company would manage the search queries and advertising inventory on the home screen, or deck, of Verizon phones in a multi-year deal reportedly worth $600 million.

Google is evil. It's not evil. Perhaps it's the George Washington of the Internet.

After December 9th, AOL Time Warner will be AOL, and Time-Warner, two separate, completely unrelated entities.

Google Inc. filed a revised settlement proposal Friday in the company's high-profile litigation with authors and publishers over alleged copyright violations stemming from its digital books service.

DHSS Weekly Update on H1N1 Influenza -Department H1N1 Website Links to New Google Flu Shot Finder - Every day health care providers and public health agencies are receiving new shipments of H1N1 vaccine.

Google New York: Scooters, Slides, And Legos -- Oh My! Before Craig Nevill-Manning became Google's first engineer in New York in 2003, he had to get Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin as well as CEO Eric Schmidt to sign off on the idea.

AdMob Inc. was approached by Apple Inc. about an acquisition before the company agreed to a $750 million offer from Google Inc.

LTech's Single-On for Google Apps enhances IT security, while an update to Power Panel for Google Apps extends lifecycle features.

AOL, the Internet unit of Time Warner Inc. that's expected to be spun out as an independent company by the end of the year, is rapidly losing a key source of revenue provided by Google Inc.

Google Boycott Would Only Cost Murdoch About 10%-15% Of Revenue Nov. 10, 2009, 10:40 AM 388 Rupert Murdoch is threatening to pull his sites from Google's search index when/if the sites have paywalls in place.

German book publishers - angered at being included in the Google Books Settlement without being consulted - voiced concern Sunday that they had now been excluded.

On March 12 2009, AOL replaced Randy Falco with Tim Armstrong, who previously ran Google's North American sales operations.

Sprint Nextel Corp. stock jumped Monday following a report that the company is getting ready to invest another $1 billion in Clearwire Corp.

He is Mexico's most wanted drug lord, the head of a cartel that has brought billions of dollars' worth of cocaine into the United States, a man with a $5 million price tag on his head - and he has been named by Forbes magazine as one of the world's most powerful people.

A judge has given Google Inc. more time to revise a legal settlement that has drawn government scrutiny because it would give the Internet search leader the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.

Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5 . It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out.

Once again, News Corp is threatening to hide itself from the rest of the Web. Earlier this week, Rupert Murdoch told an Australian interviewer that he might start blocking Google from WSJ.com and his other news sites, even though Google accounts for about 25% of the traffic to WSJ.com. Now his digital lieutenant Jon Miller is echoing his boss and ...

There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist.

Gregory Markel, president and founder of Infuse Creative, pulled from his 13 years of video search engine marketing and optimization experience, multimedia and rich media SEO and SEM, YouTube video search, online commercials, and mobile video search to share marketing insights with the crowds at PubCon Vegas 2009 on the first day of the conference, ...

In addition to myself, Christina Brown who publishes The Northern Cheapskate blog; Melissa Berggren , who publishes Marketing Mama ; and Robert Stanke , who blogs at robertstanke.com were also featured.

In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to "get rid" of Microsoft Office if they so choose, suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division.

Privacy Swiss watchdog to sue Google Street View The main street of Grindelwald is shown on a Google employee's mobile device as he poses for photographers on the launch of the Google Street View application at Google office in Zurich August 18, 2009.

Dell Inc. on Friday officially announced it will enter the wireless business before the end of 2009, starting with the sale of its new Mini 3 smartphone in China and Brazil.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 9:04 am US/Pacific SAN JOSE Mineta San Jose International Airport is one of 47 U.S. airports offering travelers Google-sponsored free wireless Internet service during the holidays.

Google Inc. announced today that it acquired Internet calling service Gizmo5, confirming the rumor reported by TechCrunch earlier this week.

Google just announced some updates to their feature that lets you get movie times for movies playing in theaters near you.

Share + Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 1 This building in Carmichael, Calif.

Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said his companya s $750 million purchase of AdMob Inc.

Google Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire mobile-phone advertising firm AdMob Inc.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- -- Google Inc. today announced that it is working with airports across the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others to provide free Wi-Fi as a holiday gift now through January 15, 2010.

This week, Google expanded its Flu Trends website to include the a oeflu shot findera that allows people in search of either an H1N1 flu vaccine or seasonal flu vaccine to easily find nearby locations offering the vaccines.

The feeling that "things are getting better" is becoming pretty pervasive among the conversations online ad execs are having, but the recent spate of reports suggest that it would be more accurate to say "things aren't getting worse." That's what the latest quarterly ad data from IDC's Karsten Weide says , as he found global online spending slipped ...

TheStreet.com Motorola's Droid sales 'troubling,' analyst says AP Motorola needs to sell at least one million Droids this year to clear the low bar set by analysts.

Google earlier this week said it was buying AdMob , a mobile advertising network, for $750 million in stock - clearly an attempt to get a running start in the mobile advertising business.

How quickly Sprint has gone from cutting jobs to cutting checks. Not 24 hours after announcing plans to sack between 2,000 and 25,000 employees , the company said it has agreed to invest another $1.18 billion in WiMax provider Clearwire .

In 2005, China administered a spelling test that asked respondents to spell "Google" for a search market report: only 60 percent took the test and more than 20 percent got it wrong.

This year, it's especially important to have clear information on what you can do to prepare for the flu season.

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did Monday after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving ...

Verizon Wireless sold about half of the Motorola's Droid smartphones it stocked over the weekend, analysts estimate.

Google is planning to foot the bill for WiFi at 47 of the nation's airports for the rest of the year, beginning Tuesday.

Google Chrome launches "incognito mode" Ctrl+Shift+N In Google Chrome you can now hit Ctrl+Shift+N and have an anonymous browser session.

Today, if you visit Google.com, you will see Count Von Count as the Google logo on the home page.

Rupert Murdoch is pursuing his plans to charge for his news content, and will turn his back on Google's news spiders and other aggregation sites.

Clearwire Corp. is reportedly getting $1.5 billion in financing to help build out its wireless network, but Google Inc.

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now.

A Chinese government watchdog has ordered Yahoo China to clean pornographic content from a photo-sharing site it hosted, a reminder of the regulatory challenges often faced by foreign Internet companies in China.

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.

Media giant Time Warner Inc. disclosed Wednesday that it's on track to spin off AOL as an independent entity, even as the Internet unit's finances continue to sour.

Google Inc. was founded in 1996 and went on to become the undisputed king of Internet search and advertising.

The news that Google Sites chief Joe Kraus has moved to Google Venture , Google's venture capital arm, is part of a larger strategy that has more to do with human resources than capital investments.

Do a Google news search, for say, "Will Ferrell," and you'll see that the search giant has started labeling news items from blogs asnews items from blogs.

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has signed a deal to expand the reach of a contextual online advertising service designed to compete with rival technology offered by Google Inc.

If something smells funny in Time Warner 's third-quarter report, it's the pungent odor of a rotting AOL.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages.

Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics.

Last night in a television interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt , being questioned on avoiding antitrust challenges , said, "Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made, you know, 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened with them." Got news for you, Eric: You've already made them and continue to.

New offerings provide more detailed access and control over online data collection.

FORTUNE magazine has crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.

AT&T Inc. dominated the U.S. wireless market in the third quarter with a huge run up in iPhone sales, but rivals are stepping up their game as the crucial holiday season approaches.

Nov. 4, 2009, 9:21 AM 1,581 As a reward for delivering a new Web browser with 30 million users , Google cofounder Larry Page and Sergey Brin awarded the team that built Chrome the Google Founders' Prize.

The $99 Droid Eris Could Be Verizon's Sleeper Android Hit Nov. 5, 2009, 2:55 PM 1,708 Verizon Wireless' Droid will likely be the carrier's favored smartphone this Christmas.

Silicon Valley has a solid history of 40 years of innovation, it has the best public and private universities plus numerous colleges; and it has the largest venture capital investment community.

Google today launched a new service for Google account holders called Google Dashboard.

I Want Media.com's Patrick Phillips interviewed The New Yorker 's media columnist Ken Auletta on his just published book, Google: The End of the World as We Know It .

Google Maps Navigator is a feature on the newest Android 2.0 devices like Motorola's new Droid.

Google Voice Has 1.4 Million Users, 40% Use It Every Day Oct. 30, 2009, 1:35 PM 50 Google has kept its Google Voice service small on purpose -- still invitation-only -- but among early adopters, it's quite popular.

Filed under: Competitive strategy , Google , Microsoft Google Inc.'s Google Apps project has gained steam since its introduction a few years ago.

Censorship of the Internet is open to challenge at the World Trade Organisation as it can restrict trade in services delivered online, a forthcoming study says.

In this book cover image released by The Penguin Press, "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," by Ken Auletta is shown.

Google's senior vice president for engineering and research, Alan Eustace, said that the search giant wants a oecreative people who want to make a differencea BANGALORE, INDIA: Search giant Google , which claimed that its Chrome Internet browser has over 30 million active users, said it is in the look out for innovative brains in the engineering ...

A security researcher has discovered a weakness in a core browser protocol that compromises the security of Google, Facebook, and other websites by allowing an attacker to tamper with the cookies they set.

Gadgetism.org > What's Your Favorite Google Wave Gadget?>> SUSE Linux Enterprise ... [ SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas ] The crux of Google Wave is the extensions/apps or what Google Wave is calling "Gadgets" . Embeds and robots will have their place, but most likely not for the common user.

Filed under: Google , AT and T , Sprint Nextel Corp , Initial public offerings , Garmin Ltd Founded in 1999, TeleNav was one of the first companies to deploy GPS navigation on a cell phone in North America.

There is a perception that Google's Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers.

Yahoo continues to push ahead with mobile search distribution deals, despite its search agreement with Microsoft .

Google Inc is adding Garmin Ltd and TomTom to its growing list of rivals as the Internet search giant weaves technology for driving directions into new versions of its smartphone software.

Hill, Michael - "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," by Ken Auletta is shown.

Motorola has much to celebrate this week. In addition to debuting its highly anticipated Droid smartphone this Friday, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva upgraded the company's shares to Buy from Hold.

Filed under: Earnings reports , Google , Apple Inc , AT and T , Verizon Communications Verizon Communications Inc.

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Excuse me for repeating a hoary old joke: Two campers see a bear, and one immediately puts on his running shoes.

Five months ago, I wrote a piece named Want Your Google News To Show Up in Google Finance? NASDAQ:GOOG which basically said, put the stock ticker in the title of your article and you're golden for showing up in Google Finance.

Screenshot from Revolico.com home page, a craigslist-like website which was beginning to be popular in Cuba and is now being filtered by government censorship.

Ahhh, corporate America, lover of bar graphs, pie charts and all things quantifiable in a spreadsheet.

With its ad campaigns touting how much of the U.S. is covered by its 3G network, and its seemingly endless promotion of new and upcoming mobile phones, Verizon Communications Inc.

Filed under: Google , Microsoft , Time Warner Sergey Brin claims that Google didn't try to buy Twitter .