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If you have somehow managed to avoid buying a Chromecast, now may just be the time to do so. Or, if someone on you holiday shopping list wants a Chromecast, Google has what is easily the best promotion for the product to date. From now to December 21, if you order a Chromecast - or [...]
On Wednesday, Google announced a brand new email app. It is a departure from Gmail - don't worry though, Gmail will remain - to a more task-based inbox. Fittingly, the new app is called just that, Inbox: Today, we’re introducing something new. It’s called Inbox. Years in the making, Inbox is by the same people who [...]
Back in April we reported that Nest, the now Google owned company that makes the Nest thermostat, pulled it's smoke/carbon monoxide detector, Nest Protect, off the market. They made this decision after they internally uncovered a flaw that could have been dangerous with the product. Although no accidents were reported, engineers at Nest discovered that [...]
Marissa Mayer is an absolute rock star. Going from one of Google's earliest employees, rising through the ranks and ultimately leaving to be the CEO of another internet giant of time's past, Yahoo. Oh and did we mention she took the position when she was pregnant. There's no doubt that the female power executive that [...]
According to several reports, Google may be pulling the plug on the Nexus line of phones. The Nexus phones, currently, come with a pure Android build. That is to say that there is no manufacturer or carrier pre-loaded software, or any additions to the Android OS. Google's new mobile strategy represents a major shift away [...]
You may remember the trouble Apple had gotten into for in-app purchases made by kids who weren't "authorized" to access the iTunes App Store. The trouble began a few years back for Apple. The company started getting refund requests and complaints from parents, some who's kids had racked up thousands of dollars in charges playing [...]
Google has made another high dollar acquisition. Recode.net reported this weekend that Google has purchased a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. According to Recode's Liz Gannes, Google paid $400 million dollars for the company. While Google has now confirmed the acquisition mums the word on the dollar amount. DeepMind was founded in London by [...]
Google is notorious for their acquisitions. They've had some mega huge hits like Youtube and then some misses like Orkut. But where does't Google's latest $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of Nest fit in with the grand scheme of Google Acquisitions? Our good friend John Cook at Geekwire took a look at Nest's place in the [...]
If you think you've heard the name Andy Rubin before, you probably have. He's the engineer that created the HipTop for his company Danger. The HipTop was Rubin's earliest version of how he saw a smartphone. It did quite well for T-mobile and was eventually acquired by Microsoft. Rubin's career path led him to Google [...]
Coin, a new tech company that is allowing users to sync all of their credit, debit and reward cards to one physical card with a magnetic stripe, is the talk of the town. They've done a successful crowdfunding campaign, they've been all over Facebook and even Google has launched a product to compete. Early backers [...]
Got Your 6, an organization that unites the entertainment industry with top veteran-focused nonprofit organizations held an event at Google's New York Headquarters on Friday. At that event, several technology leaders, including Google, made the case for hiring vets in the tech sector. "130,000 soldiers will leave the army every year," said Brig. Gen. David [...]
It's no secret in mere units Android is far outpacing the iPhone, simply because there are more units to choose from and the point of entry is much lower, in some cases free. Apple tried to compete on the cheap side with the iPhone 5C but when push came to shove there wasn't much value [...]
Google has been struggling to catch up with Apple's iTunes service. Since it's debut in January of 2001 iTunes has turned the music industry on it's head and they've responded giving iTunes the advantage of being the goto music service for most American's with a computer. Other music services have tried to catch up with [...]
Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning. There is a lot to get to, so we will just jump right in. Google dropped some major bombs during the keynote address. The most important of which was the announcement of a new mobile OS, or Android L, as the company called it. This new version of [...]
Last week, Wearable App Review, the first website solely focused on the apps that fuel wearable technology, announced their wearable app annual winners. They compiled the best of the best in all aspects of wearable technology including glasses, watches, fitness bands and other sensors/monitors. If it's wearable and it has an app, they've looked at [...]
Day one of Google I/O is in the books. The Mountain View company made some major announcements during the first day of their annual developers conference. Taken as a whole, you can see some trends starting to emerge. One of these trends is uniformity. Google has altered its thinking as far as devices. Rather than [...]
On Wednesday, a new video on the Google Developer YouTube channel gave us a new look at Android Wear. The video gives us a ton of new information about Google's foray into a wearable OS. There are a lot of things that stand out, but one of the most important takeaways - at least [...]
Late Friday Google and Apple issued a joint statement saying that they were ending all current lawsuits against each other, and that they would work together in some areas of patent reform. A story that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal had many tech pundits in disbelief. Many believed that Apple and Google [...]
Wearable technology is taking over our world. Computers are getting smaller,sensors are getting better and byte sized computers are becoming the norm. Over the last two years wearable technology and the internet of things have taken over. We're seeing fitness trackers on anyone looking to lose a little weight, prepare for a marathon or train [...]
On Tuesday, SpaceX - the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk - announced a new billion dollar round of funding. Google, one of the two investors in this round has a major vested interest in the low-cost space flight that SpaceX offers to the like of NASA. The funding round was announces in [...]
