The news is out. Starbucks Starbucks is replacing ATT ATT as its customer wireless provider. And Google Google is the new sheriff in town. This is important for a lot of reasons. While Starbucks emphasized that it expects Google’s network to be faster, given Google’s classic model I also expect it to be disruptively cheaper...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — It was bound to happen: Google Play downloads of apps jumped ahead of those at Apple’s App Store. Google Play app downloads were 10% higher than at Apple’s App Store in the second quarter, according to researcher App Annie. Shares of Apple fell 0.2% to $452.53 in regular trading Wednesday. Google dipped...Read More
 (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Earlier this month, Google Google announced disappointing earnings, and its stock immediately dropped 5% (Disclosure: I own Google stock through a fund).  Most disturbingly, the company’s core revenue driver, the revenue it gets for each click on an ad, decreased 6% while traffic acquisition costs increased. Ordinarily, rising costs...Read More
It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to the user’s hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that it...Read More
Article Excerpt Google Makes Another TV Push With $35 Chromecast Device BY AMIR EFRATI AND GREG BENSINGER Google Inc. on Wednesday made another attempt to embed itself into living rooms, after several false starts. The search giant unveiled a $35 device to wirelessly connect TVs to mobile devices so that people can view and listen...Read More
Mystery device, Chromecast, appears in Google Play support A link for something called Chromecast has been showing up sporadically today in the “About Devices†page of the “Google Play†support section on Google. We’re not sure whether or not it’s going to be an official moniker for a device or service, but it certainly has...Read More
Shinal: Google’s earnings report points to renewed concerns about declining ad prices. The Google logo(Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP) SHARECONNECT 23 TWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE For the second July in a row, Google has put a small scare into Wall Street by reporting some unpleasant surprises with its second-quarter results. The most important to investors was a 6% year-over-year...Read More
Google Inc. (GOOG) shares fell the most in four weeks after the owner of the most popular Internet search engine reported second-quarter sales and profit that missed estimates as mobile advertising crimped average prices. Revenue, excluding sales passed on to partner sites, was $11.1 billion, Google said yesterday on its website. That compared with an...Read More
The European Commission on Wednesday formally said for the first time that Google’s proposal for addressing antitrust concerns did not go far enough, and demanded that it come up with more far-reaching remedies or potentially face a fine of up to $5 billion. It was a significant setback for Google, which in April struck a...Read More
Associated Press NEW YORK — The federal judge presiding over challenges to Google Inc.’s plans to create the world’s largest digital library has refused to delay the 7-year-old case while Google appeals his decision to grant authors class certification. U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin’s order was put in the court file Wednesday in Manhattan, where...Read More
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