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Google is an Internet Search company with profits mainly derived from its AdWords advertising program. Google is also known for other high-profile web-related products such as Chrome, GMail, Google Docs or Google Map, and it has also made a very successful entry into the mobile handset market with its Android mobile operating system. The company was created in 1998 and went public in 2004. Google is one of the most visited site in the world.
AOL Sells ICQ For $187.5m
04/28/2010, Folks who were around during the beginning of instant messaging will remember ICQ, which set the standard for instant messaging back then. AOL acquired Mirabilis, the Israeli-based company who came up with the program, back in 1996 for $407 million, [...]
Hulu Android App Revealed By Google Search
04/28/2010, Hints about a Hulu Android app have been around for a while now, and a recent Google search seems to hint that that app might be coming sometime soon. The Google search (pictured above) shows a link mentioning something about [...]
Google Acquires Widget Creator LabPixies
04/27/2010, It seems that there is an acquisition by Google or Apple every other week, and now it’s Google’s turn. The search engine giant has just snapped up LabPixies, the company that Google works with to create many of the widgets [...]
Samsung May Build A Google TV Unit
04/27/2010, With Google TV possibly the next big thing in home entertainment it seems that there might be another party who wants to jump on the bandwagon. With Sony and Intel already signed up, word is going around the Samsung could [...]
Google Confirms That There Will Be No Nexus One For Verizon
04/27/2010, It was previously speculated that Google had dropped the Nexus One from Verizon’s lineup and now the search engine giant has confirmed this. As expected, the lack of the Nexus One on Verizon Wireless is due to the release of [...]
Google could have scrapped Nexus One for Verizon
04/26/2010, Google recently announced that they won’t be making any more improvements for the smartphone, and has also discreetly made it known that Verizon Wireless won’t be offering the Nexus One anymore by dropping any mention of it on their Nexus [...]
Google Nexus One Goes Official On Vodafone UK
04/26/2010, If you’ve been waiting patiently for it, you’ll be happy to know that the Google Nexus One is now official on Vodafone UK, negating the need to import the Nexus One from somewhere else if you were looking to get [...]
PayPal To Become An Additional Payment Option On The Android Market
04/26/2010, You may love it or hate it, but the fact remains that Google Checkout is the payment option for the Android Market. But now it seems that there might be an alternative on its way in the form of PayPal. [...]
Blippy Accidentally Reveals Your Credit Card Numbers On Google
04/24/2010, You might not have heard of Blippy before this, but after today, you can be sure that it’s a name that you’ll remember, albeit probably for the wrong reasons. The site is supposed to be a “fun and easy way [...]
The APad Is Another iPad Clone
04/23/2010, It’s fairly common to see clones of Apple’s products over in China, and we’ve caught sight of an iPad clone before. Now it seems that another Chinese company has taken the time and effort to come up with the APad, [...]
Google Maps Get Search Suggest
04/22/2010, Google Suggest, who people often use to make funny jokes, is now available on Google Maps in the US. It was previously only available in Germany, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but now that list has been expanded to include [...]
Google Store View Goes Official
04/22/2010, Remember the mysterious Google cameramen that we sighted a while ago? Well, it turns out that Google really does want you to be able to check out stores from your computer. Now, in Google Places, you’ll be able to check [...]
Google To Ditch Improvements For Its Nexus One Phone?
04/22/2010, While Google’s Nexus One is a good phone, it’s certainly not without its problems. That being said, quite a few Nexus One owners might be miffed at the response from one of Google’s staff on the support forums. When responding [...]
