Google began rolling out its social search on Tuesday, called “Search, plus Your World.” Now, Google results will pull in content and profiles from Google+. “We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships,” wrote Google fellow Amit Singhal. For example, a search for “vacation” will display…
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Google Music, which has been in beta since May, launched yesterday and expanded to a full service for buying, selling, and sharing music. Google touts its new platform as an alternative to music “spinning out of control” on computers, MP3 players, and phones – perhaps a reference to the constant need to sync on iTunes….
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Google is building an empire, and it took a few strides outward last week by rolling out updates to Google Plus. The first is a YouTube “slider.” You click the YouTube icon at the top right in Google Plus (mine hasn’t appeared yet), type in a search term, and see a playlist of related videos…
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When Google Wallet launched less than a month ago, I said its success would depend on vendors supporting its NFC technology. Yesterday, Google showed a commitment to recruiting those vendors, announcing partnerships with Jamba Juice, OfficeMax, the Container Store, Macy’s, Foot Locker, American Eagle, Guess, and Toys“R”Us. In addition to paying, Google Wallet users can now…
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Google Wallet, the web giant’s mobile payment system, launched yesterday on Sprint Nexus S 4G phones. Locked with a pin number, Google Wallet’s Android app pulls funds from your Citi MasterCard or Google Prepaid Card, which you can load with any credit card. Google plans to directly support Visa, Discover, and American Express in the…
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Google+ has been the talk of the summer. It’s been attracting new users at a record pace – all without the help of outside developers. Today, Google announced in a blog post that they have launched the first Google+ developer API. While this is only the first part of the Google+ API, it is still…
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Google announced earlier today it has acquired ratings company Zagat. Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering – delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights, while enabling people everywhere to find extraordinary (and ordinary) experiences around the corner and around the world. The collaboration will likely focus on integrating…
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As a Google mail user, I used to love the way you could leverage Google Gears to access your email offline so you could plow through emails while on-the-go or sitting a long flight. Google Gears stopped working with the latest version of the Firefox browser and was eventually discontinued by Google in favor of…
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We’ve covered Google+ in the past, as it’s the fastest growing social network to date. Yesterday, Google shared some numbers about the Google 1+ button that rolled out in June and just a month later hit 2 billion daily page views. Today, the +1 button appears on more than a million sites, with over 4…
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Today Google launched Photovine, a mobile photo-sharing app. The application enables users to take a picture of something – let’s say an amazing picnic or double rainbow – and then upload it and share it. The apps name is derived from the “vine” part – someone else can see your photo and upload their own…
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I love love love sitting down on the couch with a glass of wine in one hand and a stack of catalogs next to me and just flipping through them for ideas and inspiration. Google has decided to make it a more engaging, social and creative endeavor – because heaven forbid something not be social…
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This morning Google announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on Friday, August 12, 2011. This is by far Google’s largest acquisition and could remind some Internet old timers of Aol’s…
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While one of this weekend’s Twitter Trends was rather disturbing, another trend emerged from excited throngs of passionate Harry Potter fans. Across Twitter, hashtag #pottermore has spread like wildfire and Twitter username @pottermore racked up almost a quarter of a million followers. And the frustration at waiting for Pottermore clues and invites seems to rival that of Spotify…
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With over 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, the content is becoming unwieldy. Speaking on a panel at Chicago’s TechWeek on Saturday, YouTube’s head of news and politics Steve Grove explained how YouTube is trying to organize the clutter–including YouTube Trends, which aggregates popular videos. “We think this could become the YouTube…
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For those of you finding yourself filling your time examining the circles of Google’s new social network, Google Plus, you were probably delighted to find out about the launch of their first native iPhone application yesterday. If you are using an Android phone, this is nothing new as Android users have been able to receive …
Read More For those of you finding yourself filling your time examining the circles of Google’s new social network, Google Plus, you were probably delighted to find out about the launch of their first native iPhone application yesterday. If you are using an Android phone, this is nothing new as Android users have been able to receive …
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More