Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

If Mobile Is All About Search, Google Is Destroying The Competition

July 30, 2010
By Tricia Duryee
If Mobile Is All About Search, Google Is Destroying The Competition

Apple’s Steve Jobs somewhat famously said in April that people aren’t searching on their phone, but instead, are using apps. He reasoned, apps ...
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Straight Outta Minority Report: New “Recorded Future” Product Predicts Future Events?

July 30, 2010
By Jocelyn Rousey
Straight Outta Minority Report: New “Recorded Future” Product Predicts Future Events?

On Wednesday, The Danger Room blogger Noah Shachtman profiled a young information services company called Recorded Future, which monitors the web in real time and, to be perfectly honest, sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi film. Recorded Future uses a collection of futuristic-sounding analytical tools like a “temporal analytics engine” and “sentiment...
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The wisdom of the crowd

July 30, 2010
By Social Media

Need the name of a good restaurant? 'Crowdsource' it from the 'netizens'.
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[UPDATED] The Spotify Song Has a Familiar Chorus: U.S. Launch Talks Back to "Square One"

July 30, 2010
By Peter Kafka
[UPDATED] The Spotify Song Has a Familiar Chorus: U.S. Launch Talks Back to "Square One"

When will Spotify, the best music service Americans can't use, finally make it to the U.S.? No time soon, according to a new report from Billboard. The good news for impatient people: There are plenty of substitutes available right now.
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YouTube Now Offers Uploaders Full 15 Minutes Of Fame

July 29, 2010
By David Kaplan
YouTube Now Offers Uploaders Full 15 Minutes Of Fame

If you’ve ever tried to upload a video to YouTube and found it rejected for being more than 10 minutes long, you may be pleased to learn YouTube is giving you five more minutes of video time. Why, after years of complaints, is YouTube extending the length of uploaded videos to 15 minutes now?...
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YouTube Supersizes Its Uploads. Do You Have 15 Minutes You Want to Share?

July 29, 2010
By Peter Kafka

This is one way to get longer-form content on YouTube. What prompted the change? Google's site says it's because copyright owners aren't nearly as crabby as they used to be.
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About That Advertising Comeback…

July 29, 2010
By Peter Kafka
About That Advertising Comeback…

Web publishers and TV networks are doing just fine. But if you're in the radio, newspaper or magazine business, it's a different story.
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The Morning Lowdown 07.28.10

July 28, 2010
By David Kaplan
The Morning Lowdown 07.28.10

»  Steve McPherson has resigned as president of ABC (NYSE: DIS) Entertainment Group to concentrate on his wine business and a “new media venture”; he’s being replaced by Paul Lee, who is promoted from ABC Fam...
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Time Inc.’s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher

July 28, 2010
By Peter Kafka
Time Inc.’s iPad Problem Is Trouble for Every Magazine Publisher

Time Inc. likes to show off its iPad apps as a symbol of the company's future. But inside the publisher, the digital editions have become a source of hair-pulling frustration.That's because the magazine giant has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps--much to Time Inc.'s...
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Updated: Yahoo Japan Chooses Google For Search

July 27, 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Updated: Yahoo Japan Chooses Google For Search

In a hit to both Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and major shareholder Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Yahoo Japan says it will use Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to power search on its site. In passing over Microsoft, Yahoo Japan CEO Masahiro Inoue said the company’s search technology was not “sufficiently strong enough...
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