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Google Opens Places API With Initial Focus On Check-In Apps

kram412 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:52:12 +0000

At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level. Sure, Latitude had been around for a while, but everyone knew that Google could do more in the space. The announcement of some new location APIs seemed to a big part of the solution.

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Panasonic Buying Out Solar Tech and Rechargeable Battery Makers

bestcbstore — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:49:26 +0000

Panasonic announced today that it will buy out two of its subsidiaries, Sanyo and Panasonic Electric Works, for $9.4 billion. Sanyo is the largest lithium-ion rechargeable battery producer and 11th-largest solar cell producer in the world with a quickly-growing solar panel manufacturing arm according to company statements.

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Users Say Google Is Not Blocked In China, Google Says Otherwise

vertical8 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:17:47 +0000

According to Google’s Mainland China service availability page it looks like Google Web Search, Google Images and Google News are down in China, again. In fact, if you parse the chart it looks like just about the only thing still up is Gmail

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Twitter Begins User Streams Testing. Realtime Tech Should Help Ease API Strain

user — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:16:15 +0000

For some time now, Twitter has been working on a new API: the Twitter Streaming API. The idea behind it is to allow third-party Twitter clients to receive continuous tweet updates in realtime. As developer advocate Taylor Singletary notes today on the Twitter Development Talk Google Group, limited testing of this new feature (also called “User Streams”) for desktop clients has now begun

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Could This Be the Eve Of the Kindle 3?

ACMAir — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:01:14 +0000

It seems that all Kindle orders have been frozen and, it seems, that Jeff Bezos is hanging around New York right now and will speak on Charlie Rose tonight. While I seriously doubt that Bezos will whip out the Kindle 3 on the Charlie Rose show (he’ll probably talk about ebooks outselling hardbacks) it seems there is definitely something afoot.

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Hungry For Growth, Search Marketing Startup KENSHOO Raises More Funding

ACMAir — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:54:57 +0000

Search engine marketing startup KENSHOO has secured an undisclosed late-stage round of funding from Sequoia’s Growth Fund , the Israeli company announced this morning. This marks the fourth time Sequoia Capital has injected capital into the company, which claims it is now profitable and has doubled in valuation since 2009

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Big Money: AOL’s Beauty Pageant With Google, Microsoft For New Search Deal

jos — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:10:04 +0000

Time Magazine Editor Josh Quittner and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong took the stage on Friday afternoon at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen. Most of the interview was centered on AOL’s content strategies

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Google Image Search: Over 10 Billion Images, 1 Billion Pageviews A Day

Administrator — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:51:15 +0000

Today at Google’s search event in San Francisco, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer , announced a revamp of Google Images — the company’s image search product. The service garners more than a billion pageviews a day for Google, Mayer said.

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Blekko Screencast And Founder Interview

ACMAir — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:50:29 +0000

We just posted our first thoughts on Blekko , a new search engine preparing to launch to the public. We’ve also taken a screencast of the search experience on the site and have a short video interview with cofounders Rich Skrenta and Mike Markson . Blekko Screencast: Founder Interview: CrunchBase Information Blekko Information provided by CrunchBase

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AndroLib Gets A Makeover, Estimates Over 1 Billion Android Apps Downloaded So Far

blogger — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:04:15 +0000

AndroLib , the website that enables you to browse and discover apps for your Android phone far better than the Android Market site does, has gotten a makeover and a bunch of new features today.

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