Posts Tagged with ‘Google’

When Google and T-Mobile first announced the first Google Android-powered phone, T-Mobile G1, back in September, T-Mobile promised we would see a huge promotional campaign for the innovative gadget. So it is quite understandable that the blogosphere was a little disappointed when we did not see T-Mobile G1 pushed at us everywhere and the launch date was much quieter than expected, especially compared to the launch date of iPhone with long lines of people waiting for Apple stores to open.
So [...]

I actually thought it was quite predictable. It was way too obvious that Yahoo behaved too aggressive trying to resist the unsolicited acquisition by Microsoft all the way after the software giant offered a generous $37 per share earlier this year. In its attempts to stay independent Yahoo tried just about everything, including even partnership with its main competitor in the web search field - Google.
When Google decided that the advertising deal with Yahoo was not worth the trouble in [...]

It looks like Google is facing yet another patent lawsuit - this time involving a huge amount of money, the technology that is the key to Google’s money-making machine and a team of Russian developers. The Russian company “Era Vodoleya” (translated into English as “The Age of Aquarius”) claims that they patented the technology involved in contextual advertising a year before Google began using this technology.
The CEO of the Russian company told to the Russian CNews branch (in Russian) that [...]

This morning Google has announced on the official blog that it will not proceed with the advertising deal with Yahoo. This deal was supposed to help Yahoo withstand the acquisition by Microsoft by offering it a stable revenue stream to survive and support itself. The revenue was supposed to be generated by Yahoo showing Google ads on its sites.
But of course from the very beginning it was quite evident that the deal would raise questions from antitrust authorities and that [...]

Today Google is rolling out an interesting functionality to Gmail Labs - sending SMS to your contacts and new phones instead of simple text messages in a chat. Quite predictably, the functionality only works in the US and ignores international users as it must involve certain agreements with carriers.
For some reason the official Gmail blog does not have any posts describing this new functionality but some reporters (including those from Webmonkey and eWeek) were briefed on the functionality so we [...]

It looks like Google actually wants to have at least some presence in every possible field of business available online. The recent announcement is Google becoming OpenID provider so that people could sign in to supporting sites with their Gmail accounts. For a while Google will be offering this additional login functionality to a limited number of websites that request to join the testing program but that will obviously change in a while as scalability and testing are quoted as [...]

Back in July we reported on acquisition of a Russian contextual advertising company Begun (one of the largest companies working in the field in Russia) by Google. At the time we suggested that a combination of contextual advertising sold by Begun and Google AdSense could very well serve to monopolize the market of such ads in the Russian segment of the internet.
Now it looks like I was not alone questioning if Google would build yet another monopoly with this acquisition: [...]

Yesterday evening we saw a number of publications discussing the fact that the number of applications in the Android Market was suddenly reduced from more than 50 to only 13 - with only two days left until the first Android powered device, T-Mobile G1, starts shipping on Wednesday.
There were a few theories for why it could happen with users already starting to get their preordered phones and unable to download the much-hyped applications like ShopSavvy. The theories ranged from Google [...]

Google has reported its Q3 revenues today and the industry seems to have exhaled in relief. Yesterday we heard lots of talks that if Google reported anything even remotely negative, the entire web industry would be significantly hurt as everyone would start questioning reliability of ad-supported business model. But fortunately for the industry, Google seems to be healthier than experts predicted.
For the third quarter Google reported revenues of $5.54 billion - 31% growth year on year. It is also an [...]