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52 min ago | Gay.com

Want the Worst? Search for 'Gayest'

In recent years activists have taken the "don't say gay" message to the public in a big way.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology

5 hrs ago | Paid Content

It's a trap! Publishers crave an alternative to Google's adtech "Death Star"

Adtech has made great strides but is in a period of transition. The most pressing concern for publishers? The need for a soup-to-nuts provider that isn't also a competitor like Google.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology

9 hrs ago | ComputerWorld

Google: Weak XMPP support, capabilities led us to proprietary tech in Hangouts

The company is catching flak for its decision to build its new IM and audio/video chat service without support for the XMPP standard Google is feeling the heat over its decision to build its new Hangouts IM and audio/video chat product with proprietary technology that doesn't support server federation via the XMPP industry standard, but the company ... (more)

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Social Software

13 hrs ago | VentureBeat

Google and Microsoft agree to play nicely on a new YouTube Windows Phone app

Google announced that it's ending its fight over Microsoft's YouTube Windows Phone app and that the two companies will be working together on a revamped version.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Microsoft

Fri May 24, 2013

WHTC

Justice Department defends journalist email search

The Justice Department said on Friday that senior officials including Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.

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Related Topix: Publishing, Media, News Corporation, Television, FOX News Network, Emerging Technology

Contra Costa Times

Biz Break: Are Google and Yahoo about to make big purchases?

Today: As rumors fly that Google is entering a bidding war with Facebook over traffic mapping app Waze, new reports surface that Yahoo has entered bidding for streaming video service Hulu.

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Related Topix: Startups, Yahoo!, Google, ITA Software, WebMD, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology

The Campbell Reporter

Google plans to build wireless networks across Africa, Southeast Asia

Google intends to finance, build and help operate wireless networks from sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, hoping to connect a billion or so people in emerging countries to the Internet, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Wireless

ComputerWorld

Google, Facebook launch bidding war for Waze

Citing unnamed sources, Businessweek today reported that Google is one of multiple companies negotiating to buy Waze, which is said to have a $1 billion price tag.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology

The Campbell Reporter

Wolverton: Google is flirting with what company chairman Eric Schmidt once called "the creepy line."

At its recent developer conference, the Mountain View search giant showcased a number of new personalized technologies that many consumers will find useful, such as alerts of upcoming flights and restaurant recommendations.

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Related Topix: ITA Software, Google, Startups, WebMD, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, AdMob

Northern Life

Google is investors' best bet to fight fraud

It was a case that dominated local headlines for months, Sudbury's version of the Bernie Madoff investment scandal, only it took place more than a decade earlier.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England

WTAQ-AM Green Bay

Wisconsin girl draws today's "Google doodle"

UNDATED Today's 'Google doodle' is from a student in Wisconsin. Sabrina Brady, a high school senior from Sparta, won an on-line voting contest.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Sparta, WI, Minneapolis College of Art & Design

Thu May 23, 2013

Wall Street Journal

Google Copies Amazon's Playbook

But the search company increasingly appears to be following Amazon.com Inc.'s The latest example involves cable ties, AC-DC adapters, radiation detectors and the like.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Emerging Technology, Amazon, Larry Page, Sergey Brin

Reuters

Google faces new federal antitrust probe: source

U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc, the top player in web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, us Travel, Travel

Search Engine Watch

The Myth of Content Marketing, the New SEO & Penguin 2.0

"What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content". "Why Content Marketing is the New SEO". "Is Google's love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?" "Content Marketing is the New SEO " In fact, it's so awesome you don't need anything else! Just produce awesome content and you will be in SEO nirvana! It's like double rainbows ... (more)

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engine Optimization, Science / Technology, Internet

Northern Michigan News

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, World News, Ecuador, Mountain View, CA

BBC News

Google acquires kite-power firm

The deal comes as Makani carries out the first fully autonomous flights of robot kites bearing its power-generating propellers.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology, Robots, Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

CIO

Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablets to Go on Sale in 170 Countries on June 13

Amazon.com is expanding the distribution of its tablets in a big way with the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 now available for preorder in over 170 countries, and its Appstore open in nearly 200 countries.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Emerging Technology

Reuters

Breakingviews: Japan joins global risk parade

Wells Fargo's Walter Price says analysts aren't giving Google enough credit for growth in its mobile and video businesses and says the stock holds more opportunity than rival internet giant Yahoo.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Weather

Hotel Online

A Restaurateur's Guide to Successful Digital Marketing / Emily Ditman

Restaurant industry sales in 2013 will total more than $660.5 billion, a 3.8 percent increase from 2012 .

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Marketing, Emerging Technology, Search Engine Optimization, Internet, Science / Technology

Wed May 22, 2013

Asbury Park Press

Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody , and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

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Related Topix: iPod touch App, iPad App, Google+, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Spotify, Cell Phones, Electronics

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