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The newsonomics of Google’s retail push

It looked like just more head-butting among the mammoths of our time: Google will match up with Amazon, said the Wall Street Journal last week: “The Web-search giant is in talks with major retailers and shippers about creating a service that would let consumers shop for goods online and receive their orders within a day......

Google Can’t Say Hello to Hulu Now. (Can It?)

Way down on the list of ripple effects from the Google-Motorola deal: The notion that Google could buy Hulu gets even harder to take seriously. Then again, obscene amounts of money always help.

Google plans for “the second phase of the display ad revolution” with a focus on smartphones and tablets

Google is known primarily for its work in search advertising. But it's making an investment — a big one — in another area: display ads. This month's acquisition of AdMeld was only the latest in a series of moves that are positioning Google for "the second phase of the display ad revolution." Around 1,000 of...

Mobile Ad Network Jumptap Raises $25 Million

It's one of several well-funded mobile ad networks yet to be acquired by even bigger players.

Make the Googleplex 25 Percent Bigger! Google Adding More Than 6,000 Hires This Year

Google plans its "biggest hiring year in company history" in 2011, the company announced today. That means something north of 6,000 new hires, which was the company's previous record, set in 2007. And that will push Google's total head count above 30,000 by the end of the year. Last year Google added more than 4,500...

Google’s 2010 M&A Bill: $1.6 Billion and Counting

Google has spent at least $1.6 billion buying 40 companies during the first nine months of 2010. If you assume the previously announced ITA deal goes through this year, you can tack on another $700 million.

Google’s Victory Dance: Check Out Our Go-Go Numbers!

After showing off financial numbers that blew away Wall Street's earnings estimates, what could Google do for an encore? Trot out even more numbers, via a tantalizing but not-that-revealing striptease.

Google to Apple: Thanks for Playing Nicely!

Now that Apple has formally let Google's AdMob into its iPhone/iPod/iPad platform, Google has posted a thank-you note, via a blog post from AdMob chief Omar Hamoui. The truth is, Apple has been more or less ignoring its AdMob ban throughout the summer. But Hamoui and the rest of the Google gang will be happy...

Apple Hands App Developers an Olive Branch. What About Adobe and AdMob?

Apple promises developers more "transparency." At least as important: It appears to be making peace--or at least establishing a détente--with corporate rivals Google and Adobe. Will that satisfy federal regulators asking antitrust questions?

Apple: Here’s How to Opt Out of Our Targeted Ads (But Not Our Location Tracking)

If you're willing to do the work, you can opt out of Apple's ad trackers. But Apple is going to keep track of your iPhone's location data, no matter what you want.

That Didn’t Take Long: Feds Looking at Apple’s Anti-Google Ad Stance

Of course they are.

Google on Apple’s AdMob Ban: Hey! Don’t Do That!

Still haven't heard back from Apple about its new data-collection policy, which basically shuts Google out of the display-ad market for its iPhone and iPad apps. But Google's AdMob has now mustered a response: It doesn't like it! Also unhappy: Investors in mobile ad companies that might have contemplated a sale to Apple rivals.