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There's good news for Google's CFO (and the company's shareholders) this morning: two different financial firms have declared now a great time to purchase Google's stock. ...

Yahoo: You Know, We’ve Got Web TV Offerings Too

A few days ago Google unleashed Google TV upon the world, and got a lot of pe...

Google Assimilates Travel Site’s Team

A few travel experts are themselves completing a trip this morning. Google's managed to get the folks behind Ruba - a travel site - to join its organization, and they're a...

Google Has New Mobile Ad Formats

Mobile advertising will continue to play a major role in Google's revenue going forward. While the jury is still out, so to speak, on the proposed acquisition of AdMob, Google h...

Google Launches Encrypted Search Option

Just in time for the weekend and hours-long browsing sessions at home computers, Google's given privacy advocates a gift. This afternoon, the search giant released the enc...

Major Yahoo-Nokia Announcement Expected Monday

Yahoo may soon announce a partnership with a very big mobile phone company. Supposedly Nokia - which reported around $12.7 billion in sales for the first quarter of this y...

Where Does Google TV Fit Into Search?

It's time to start optimizing your web content for the big screen. Here at Google I/O, as I'm sure you've heard, Google announced the much-anticipated Google TV. Naturally, sear...

Bing Maps Adds Three Useful Apps

Bing Maps, which was already impressive in quite a few ways, has gotten better again with the addition of three new apps. A distance calculator, gas prices tool, and parki...

Google Previews Storage Service for Developers at Google I/O

Today Google introduced Google Storage for Developers at Google I/O. This is a RESTful cloud service built on the company's storage and networking infrastructure. They are showc...

Google Latitude API Launched at Google I/O

During Google I/O today, out here in San Francisco, Google announced among many other things, that it is opening up a Google Latitude API. Google Latitude is of...

Google Launches Buzz APIs at Google I/O

In a session here at Google I/O called "What's the hubbub about Google Buzz APIs," Google announced, well, Buzz APIs. The session was aimed at "tak...

Google Announces Chrome Web Store

During the very long and drawn out keynote here at Google I/O today, there were many speakers and many topics addressed, including a number of new announcements from Google. Amo...

Google Wave Released To Everyone

When Google Wave invitations first went out, they were hugely popular, with requests appearing left and right and bids topping $5,000 in one eBay auction. Now, perhaps wit...

PayPal Has Some Announcements from Google I/O

I'm out here at Google I/O where PayPal made a couple of announcements: the availability of its Mobile Payments Library for Android and the launch of its PayPal X Toolkit for Go...

Google Previews Chrome Web Store, Launches Wave as Part of Google Apps, and More

The Google I/O day one keynote will begin soon. Go here to watch it live. I will post notes below. Please forgive the inevitable typ...