Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland
It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More
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Meebo Slow Cooked To $100 Million Sale
BY: Jon ChristianOnline chat client Meebo grew organically, relying on word of mouth and a deliberately-paced test phase to maintain a stable trajectory, according to co-founder Seth Sternberg. That strategy paid off this week, when Google acquired the service for a reported $100 million.
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Google Steps Up Microsoft Rivalry With Quickoffice Acquisition
BY: Jon ChristianIn a move that could represent a gauntlet in a battle for mobile office suite share between Google and Microsoft, the former company acquired document, presentation and spreadsheet editor Quickoffice, which is available for most smartphone platforms.
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Google Acquires Meebo, Which Interfaces With Competitor Facebook
BY: Jon ChristianMeebo technology might be integrated into the Google Plus social network, and also gives Google a foot in the door to competitor Facebook’s chat service, which Meebo supports.
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Google To Notify Users Censored By “Great Firewall of China”
BY: Jon ChristianNew code on the Chinese version of Google will alert users who are about to search for a query that is likely to run afoul of Chinese censorship efforts, in a move that could stir up new tensions between the multinational search giant and authorities in the communist nation.
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Google Plus Gobbles Up Google Places, In Ongoing Social Push
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle Places is being incorporated into Google Plus — in hopes, perhaps, of enticing more users to join and actually use the fledgling social initiative.
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Bing Update Rolls Out For US Users, Pushes Social Search In The Fight Against Google
BY: Corey CummingsAfter announcing the slew of new features coming to the Microsoft search engine a few weeks back, the all-new Bing has been rolled out to users in the United States this week.
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Android Malware Genome Project: Norton Detects Just 20 Percent Of Malware
BY: Jon ChristianResearchers tested four leading mobile anti-virus brands, and found that some were starkly more effective than others. Lookout and Trend Micro performed well, identifying nearly 80 percent of infections, with AVG trailing at 54.7 percent. The clear loser was Norton, which found just 20.0 percent of malware.
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S Voice Released, Promptly Hacked To Run On Other Android Devices
BY: Jon ChristianHackers wasted no time in releasing S Voice for other current-generation Android phones, casting a shadow on Samsung’s day in the sun while potentially opening up the functionality to a much wider range of users.
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Google Street View Road Trip At 1000 MPH
BY: Lindsay ONealInspired by his childhood dream of riding a rocket around the world, Giacomo Miceli takes a breath-taking road trip through five contents at supersonic speeds – using Google Street View as his rocket.
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Lawsuit: Make “Google” A Generic Term For Search
BY: Jon ChristianLinguistic conventions and trademark law are being put to the test by a lawsuit in which Phoenix, AZ resident David Elliott is suing to have Google’s trademark on its own name canceled
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Video Capture Demo Suggests A Different, Artistic Side To Project Glass
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle released the first footage shot with the wearable computing device Project Glass Friday, showcasing the project’s potential for capturing visual media.
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Like Google Years Ago, Yahoo! Releases Browser
BY: Jon ChristianThe web may be littered with the husks of failed browsers, but struggling search outfit Yahoo! is tossing its hat into the ring nonetheless, with a “search browser†seemingly aimed mainly at mobile platforms, but also available as a plugin for popular desktop browsers.
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Google: Microsoft, Not The Film Or Music Industry, Leads Copyright Takedown Requests
BY: Jon ChristianThe most copyright takedown requests to Google come, by a staggering margin, from software giant Microsoft, rather than the film or music industry.
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Android, iOS Run 82 Percent Of Smartphones. What About The Other 18 Percent?
BY: Jon ChristianThe mobile operating system scene is now dominated by Apple and Google, according to research firm IDC, with the two now accounting for a combined 82 percent of the market. The other 18 percent is a surprising mixture of has-beens, potential rivals, and unknowns.
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McAfee: Malware Threat Levels Are Burning Up, Especially On Android
BY: Jon ChristianA new report found growth in computer security threats almost across the board, in a shifting trend that surprised the authors.
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This Isn’t The First Time Google Has Fought Malware User-By-User
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle is embarking on a quest to notify the owners of 500,000 infected computers that, unless they take action, their internet will be shut off on July 19th.
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Google’s Motorola Acquisition Is About Android
BY: Jon ChristianSearch giant Google closed a deal today to acquire consumer electronics developer Motorola, Inc., in a bid to reemphasize the company’s commitment to Android
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European Union Gives Google A Matter Of Week To Address Antitrust Concerns
BY: Jon ChristianThe European Union’s commissioner responsible for competition policy has given Google an ultimatum to provide a list of steps the company will take to address concerns — and complaints from rivals” that it has abused its dominant market position in Europe.
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Google-Backed Wind Power Venture Approved By Department Of The Interior
BY: Jon ChristianThe Atlantic Wind Connection is a proposed transmission backbone that would run along 250 miles of coast from New Jersey to Virginia.
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Google To Assert Control Over Android
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle steps in to exert more control over the ecosystem of apps and hardware run on Android phones and tablets.
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Google TV Isn’t Dead Yet, According To LG
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle TV isn’t dead yet, at least according to manufacturer LG. The South Korean conglomerate is expected to demonstrate a new smart TV this week based on Google’s beleaguered media platform .
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Mozilla, Google Aren’t Happy About IE-Only Windows RT
BY: Jon ChristianIt’s possible that Mozilla and Google are prepping a push for regulatory action against Microsoft, which is limiting Windows RT’s to Internet Explorer.
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Google Offers Is Kind Of Like Groupon, But With More Maps
BY: Jon ChristianGoogle introduced a number of new features to the Google Maps for Android today, many with a commercial focus.
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Gets Nevada Plates
BY: Jon ChristianWhat happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Well, for now NV is home to Google’s autonomous vehicle road tests.
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Google Pays Legal Scholar To Argue Search Rankings Are Free Speech
BY: Jon ChristianSergey Brin is speaking out publicly in favor of the open web at the same time the company defending its right to strategically fudge searches.
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