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Luvocracy Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures And Others To Master Ecommerce And Social Recommendations

Luvocracy, a recently launched, Pinterest-like social marketplace where people can buy products recommended by friends and other tastemakers, has raised $11 million in funding from Kleiner Perkins...

Google gains appeal for cloud services, but there’s this company called Amazon

With Google opening up its Google Compute Engine (GCE) for anyone and expanding the feature set of its Google Cloud Platform, the web giant appears to have its gaze fixed on easing Amazon Web...

Google's Upcoming Maps App Includes Smarter Venue Search, Waze-Like Rerouting

It wasnt that long ago that iPhone users were cheering about the release of Google Maps for iOS .

Google Announces Rebuilt AdMob Developer Tools With Smarter App Promotion, Local Currency Support

Mobile app developers using Googles AdMob ad network will start seeing a new version that has been rebuilt in a ground up sort of way, according to Jonathan Alferness, director of product...

Ex-Googlers launch venture-backed SRCH2 to speed up enterprise search

Ex-Googlers launch venture-backed SRCH2 to speed up enterprise search

SRCH2 , an enterprise search startup created by Google veterans, has officially launched, while also announcing an insider round of founding from several venture capital firms and angel investors.

Knight Foundation-backed mobile startup Behav.io’s team is joining Google

Knight Foundation-backed mobile startup Behav.io’s team is joining Google

Behav.io, a mobile sensor startup with backing from the Knight Foundation, announced Friday morning that the company is joining Google , where its CEO used to work before starting the company.

Google acquires Wavii after bidding war with Apple

Google has purchased Wavi i for a sum above $30 Million, it was reported on Tuesday. The company was bidding against its arch-rival, Apple, for the natural language processing startup. The reason...

Google reportedly acquires natural language processing startup Wavii

Word that Google has snapped up natural language processing startup Wavii first came from TechCrunch , and now the Wall Street Journal is chiming in with its own sources claiming the deal has in...

Google+ Photos Can Now Automatically Create Animated GIFs, Panoramas, HDR Images And Better Group Shots

Photos have always been at the center of the Google+ experience and at I/O today, Google announce a major update to Google+ Photos that now makes use of the many of the tools the company acquired...

Google Returns Frommer's Brand to Founder

Google Returns Frommer's Brand to Founder

Google has returned the Frommer's brand name to founder Arthur Frommer just eight months after acquiring the travel guidebook publisher from John Wiley & Sons.

Google Acquires More Wearable Computing Glasses Patents

One of the more interesting discussions about Google Glass Ive seen recently was in a forum where one of the participants was describing his own homemade version of Google Glass, which he named...

Report: Google acquires language processing startup Wavii for $30M

Google has acquired a natural language processing startup called Wavii for more than $30 million. The search giant reportedly won the bid over Apple, which wanted the company to use for their Siri...

Walmart to Test In-Store Locker Service

Walmart will soon install lockers for in-store item pickup in a number of its physical locations, the company said, joining a number of major companies in combining online shopping with brick-and-...

Google acquires Android mobile-data firm Behavio

Behavio's Funf framework gathers data about people and their location by way of their phone and can use it to predict future actions -- places they're most likely to visit next, for example. [Read...

Following iPad release, Google rolls out free Android and iPhone versions of Quickoffice for Apps customers

Google on Wednesday announced the release of Quickoffice for Android and iPhone, available gratis for all its Apps for Business customers. If you fit the bill, you can download the apps now for...

SocialFlow grabs $10M for — what else? — social media marketing

SocialFlow , a startup that makes social media marketing tools, has raised $10 million in its second round of institutional financing.

Social prediction startup Behavio joins Google (update)

Google has added yet another talented group to its team ever growing list of acquisitions . Startup Behavio announced it is joining the Mountain View crew and shutting down its closed alpha. The...

Google Apps hit with partial outage for some users

If you cant access your Gmail this morning, dont worry, since its not just you. Google has reported that some of its services are experiencing a partial outage, meaning that some users cant access...

Mobile apps for Google+ add photo filters, too

While Google+ might not exactly have reached viral adoption yet, the platform and layout have been popular among the photographer community , and on Monday mobile photographers will get some added...

Google sold Frommer’s Travel — but kept all the social media data

Mystery solved. Many were scratching their heads over why Google sold Frommers Travel Guides this month less than a year after buying the brand for $22 million. The answer is the same as for why...