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How to make Google Translate beat box
May 6 by JD Rucker | 2 commentsSome Google hacks are simply cooler than others. If you want to make Google Translate “beat box” like a champ, simply paste this nonsensical string of letters into it and push play. pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv more »
Is Yelp spending too much money?
May 3 by JD Rucker | add commentThey say you have to spend money in order to make money. The problem for Yelp is that they may be spending too much money compared to what they’re earning. This is common for publicly-traded companies, but in their case they may be spending too much compared to how much they have more »
Google Wave taken off life support
May 1 by Lorie Wimble | 2 commentsWe knew the day was coming. Ever since Google announced the discontinuation of the failed social media… something… that they launched 3 years ago, the hundreds of avid users were given ample time to collect their virtual belongings and more »
Apple kills Android searches on Chomp
Apr 27 by Rocco Penn | add commentCourtesy for competitors is a thing of the past as Apple removed Android support from app discovery firm Chomp, a company they purchase just a few months ago. It was a silent kill; no mention or blog post. It simply ceased to exist on their homepage. The battle more »
How you can use Google Places to get the word out about your business
Apr 24 by Aidan Hijleh | add commentIn 2009, Google launched Places, an offering designed to take the place of its Local Business Center. Though it delivered dramatic improvements from day one, it focused on the same general goal of helping local companies increase their visibility. more »
Is Google finally learning to focus on what matters?
Apr 20 by Lorie Wimble | add comment“Spring cleaning” is a code word for shuttering old, unused products, services, and experiments by Google. CEO Larry Page has been doing spring cleaning every once and a while since taking over last year, including big ones in September and November. The latest round came more »
As Google gets bigger, can we trust them?
Apr 19 by Scarlett Madison | 1 commentThe growth of Google over the last decade has been fast and steady. They haven’t had the skyrocket moments that marked the rise of many tech companies but they’ve never really slowed down either. As a company, they have been running a marathon more »
The single most important thing businesses can do to improve their search rankings
Apr 18 by Connor Livingston | 5 commentsNo, it’s not spam, but it is associated with a pork product. Search engine optimization has a bad name in many circles. It is synonymous with spamming much in the same way that racial, lifestyle, and religious stereotypes work; the few bad apples more »
Path may be the next startup to go huge after $30 million round of funding
Apr 17 by Sal McCloskey | 2 commentsEveryone has startup fever again after Facebook’s huge purchase of Instagram last week, perfect timing for Path to announce a $30 million round of funding led by Redpoint. “We are delighted to announce that last week we closed a significant round of funding with a new set of investor partners,” CEO Dave Morin. “It is more »
Gmale and Siri fall in love
Apr 15 by Scarlett Madison | add commentAmongst the “big 4″ tech companies that get most of the attention today, Google and Apple are two of the most bitter rivals. Before dying, Steve Jobs expressed an utter contempt for Google that has pretty much boiled over lately into an all-out war. Just because the companies do not get along more »
Clash of the titans: Google+ vs. Facebook
Apr 13 by Matthew Liquori | 2 commentsSince the upstart of Google Plus, it has been increasing its popularity at a very fast rate. Shockingly enough, at a faster rate than Facebook had when it was first started. Google Plus has recently climbed over 170 million users sharing information and more »
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Posted May 21, 2012 in Chrome overtakes IE to become world’s most popular browser
Posted May 21, 2012 in Chrome overtakes IE to become world’s most popular browser
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