Google has just acquired another company as announced by the company’s official blog. It’s Picnik, a fun, online image editor that was founded in 2005 and since then become one of the most feature-rich online image editor partnering with various photo uploading sites including Flickr. Picnik offers some easy-to-use tool that you can use to …
Although both Facebook and Google has not yet announced this officially, some folks are reporting that status updates from Facebook pages will start showing up on Google search results today. Of course, this comes hot on the heels of Yahoo’s announcement of their content-sharing deal with Twittter. And so the race to become a real-time …
Twitter seems to be getting on every search engines lately. It has already struck deals with both Microsoft and Google whereby Twitter streams will be integrated into search result pages. And now, it just agreed on a content sharing deal with Yahoo. According to Jim Stoneham, VP of communities for Yahoo via a report by …
Google has just announced its new ad serving technology which is geared for both large and small scale online publishers – DoubleClick for Publishers. This is actually a result of combining Google Ad Manager and DoubleClick Ad Exchange which Google purchase in 2008. DoubleClick for Publishers, the main service will be available for large online …
Google has just released a new mobile app for Android phones – called Google Shopper. It’s a pretty cool and robust app that lets you search product information quickly using your Android phone’s camera. The app recognizes cover art of books, CDs, DVDs, video games as well as product barcodes. In addition to image recognition, …
So finally, Yahoo and Microsoft got the clearance to implement terms and conditions of their search ad deal. Both the European Commission and U.S. Dept. of Justice have approved the deal which has been on the table for quite some time now. Both companies can now start implementing some of the terms and conditions of …
Mobile application reMail has just been acquired by Google, and so its owner claims via a post on his blog. According to reMail founder Gabor Cselle, Google acquired reMail and that he will be joining Google as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. Actually, it’s more of “rejoining”, since Cselle was previously a Google …
Well, we knew this was going to happen. With a high user engagement and a massive userbase build up, Facebook has just slipped pass through Yahoo to become the no.2 most popular website in the U.S. Latest data from Compete.com shows that Facebook is not only raking up userbase but user engagement as well as …
As expected from a controversial web service that inflicts privacy invasion, Google Buzz just received a new “friend” in the Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner. A spokesperson for the said Canadian government office said that they are now investigating whether Google Buzz is indeed violating or may have violated Canadian privacy laws. Google’s …
Google seemed to have quietly implemented MySpace Real-Time Search API just now. The announcement was actually made by MySpace so I checked out the Official Google Blog if there was any update about this but didn’t find any. Probably because it’s too early or maybe Google just don’t want to make a big fuzz about …
