Sometimes it’s easier to get a picture of a market if you look directly at the numbers. Google India’s Rajan Anandan gave us a snap shot of the data that is driving the consumers entrepreneurs, and investors in the rapidly growing Indian web and mobile markets. Read More »
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Google has bought Plannr, a Seattle-based startup, for an undisclosed fee, according to reports. Plannr is a service that helps groups of people coordinate their plans by bringing together the multiple planning tools that we use (calendar, phone, email, maps, SMS, etc.). Read More »
Foursquare is in talks with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft about deals involving the service’s location-based checkin data, CEO Dennis Crowley told The Telegraph. None of the search providers have confirmed this, but such deals would make sense given their interest in making their results more real-time. Read More »
It’s April Fool’s Day and the Internet will be littered with hijinks such as Google’s apparent name change to Topeka in honor of the Kansas city that changed its name to Google to win the Google Fiber service. Tell us your favorites and share the laughs. Read More »
Google’s Android platform is gaining smartphone market share, but future growth is at risk due to fragmentation. Fortunately, however, the company appears to have a plan for addressing such an issue that reportedly involves “decoupling many of Android’s standard applications and components from the platform’s core.” Read More »
Google contributes between 6 and 10 percent of the volume of traffic on the web, but it’s also using its own vast network to cut its costs and boost its ability to serve customers better, by direct peering and caching content near the edge. Read More »
When it comes to selling a lot of a new phones in a short amount of time, an educated customer base, a pre-holiday launch and a carrier with a huge subscriber base are essential. And launching a phone with a web sales channel is dumb. Read More »
Facebook is coming to Austin with plans to create 200 jobs as part of its first big U.S. expansion, if the city will approve $200,000 in incentives on top of the state’s offer of $1.4 million. So will Facebook help keep Austin weird? Read More »
It’s time developers stop viewing mobile as an afterthought and start building mobile apps for less robust wireless connections and a variety of platforms. Programmers should stop trying to force design principals and habits learned on the PC-focused wired web into a mobile world. Read More »
Over the last few years Mobile World Congress, the mobile phone industry trade show, has experienced a shift from being about mobile phones to being about always-on connectivity. Mobile broadband has changed the value of the mobile ecosystem and thus the players who care about it. Read More »
To figure out why Google has declared war on the existing communications network with its experimental fiber network, I chatted with Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager for alternative access at Google. Her group works on white spaces broadband, spectrum auctions and Google’s filings with the FCC. Read More »
Google will build a fiber network that offers speeds of 1 Gbps. The network could become an indirect threat to ISPs, because Google could disclose competitive data on actual network costs and it could lead to services that would suck more bandwidth on existing networks. Read More »
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