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Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, serves Adult Content
For 22 minutes, viewers unexpectedly encountered unauthorized content when they went to the Sesame Street YouTube channel, and certainly not...
First Google Store opens in London to minimal fanfare
Google is singing "God Save the Queen" as they launch their first Google store. Sort of. Unlike competitors Apple and...
Google makes the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to all
For decades, scholars have debated the validity and inspiration behind what many consider the biggest archeological discovery of the 20th...
With Google Flights, they continue to spread into… everything
In 2007, I did a seminar about data collection. I told a room of people that Google is not in...
With initial developer API released for Google+, FarmVille can’t be too far behind
Google's first entry into social gaming wasn't spectacular. By allowing a handful of partners to develop, they were only able...
Android takes to the sky in Boeing’s new Dreamliner
Boeing's long-delayed 787 Dreamliner has finally finished flight testing and is ready for delivery. Airlines looking to add the 787...
Google takes another deep stab at Yelp by buying Zagat
When Yelp denied Google's $500 million bid to buy them in 2009, many believed that the location/reviews company was positioned...
AOL and Yahoo! are run very differently from Microsoft and Google
It's a matter of class.Apple and Google have traveled different paths on their road to success. Both have overcome challenges...
Google Chrome extension lets you +1 anything on the internet
When the Google +1 button first rolled out earlier this year, it made a little bit of a splash from...
Android, iOS approach 70% combined smartphone market share
The drive towards domination of the smartphone market continues for Apple and Google as they approach a combined 70% choke...
Google vs Apple: Who’s winning the tech industry land grab?
In the news, people are well aware of the iOS vs Android war. Both operating systems and the companies behind...
Google makes changes to their search algorithm an average of once every 17.5 hours
With several hundred signals that are read and processed by their search algorithm, we've always known that Google puts a...
Nintendo gives up, defers to Google
Companies are often no longer the experts about their own products. The internet has allowed us to find information like...
In mobile search, there can be only Google (for now)
Every month, StatCounter comes out with their ranking reports that are combed over by bloggers to find trends, see changes,...
iOS vs Android: Key Insights for App Developers and Businesses
The iOS vs Android fight rivalry has evolved far beyond emoji battles and text bubble colors, it's no longer just...
Google+ and Facebook are perceived the same by users
How different is Google+ from Facebook? It turns out, they’re not that different. A recent eye-tracking study has revealed that...
In the Google+ vs Facebook battle, does one have to beat the other?
Almost all of the social media hoopla lately has been about Google+ and its relationship with Facebook. Just over a...
Google+ becomes the fastest growing social network
Since its launch in late June, Google+ has attracted 25 million unique global visitors. That ascent has far outpaced the...
Google “Instant Pages” for Chrome tells more about direction than features
This could also be titled, "How Larry Page is starting to run Google more like Steve Jobs would." Google has...
Google asks people to have an “email intervention” with their friends
In one of the most aggressive attempts Google has made to promote one of its products, the "Email Intervention" campaign...