Spend two minutes on Facebook and you’ll see how targeted ads work — they pick up on the links you click on and search terms you use to serve you relevant ads. Search for breakup songs in Google? You’ll probably …
Y Combinator startup Mixpanel dives deep into pageview and visitor engagement analytics, offering real-time “micro” stats. And it’s just raised its first institutional round of funding.
The company is making a big push for mobile analytics, an area it feels …
Channeling the design aesthetic of today’s hit mobile app makers, Google has released a bold, new version of its Google+ iPhone application that’s a beauty to behold.
“We’re embracing the sensor-rich smartphone (with its touchable screen and high-density display), and …
Walking around indoors is a top-priority problem for techsters, so Google Maps for Android brings with its latest update indoor walking directions.
The app will also give you 360-degree interior photos of businesses, because if there’s anything harder than walking …
An early release of the Android version of social news reader app Flipboard has leaked out for anyone to install on their own devices — diminishing an exclusive Samsung scored to debut the app on its new Galaxy S III …
Another day, another improvement for Google+, the circle social network from Google — except today’s Google+ update might actually have you spending less time on the social site.
Starting Tuesday, Google+ is getting more fully integrated with Gmail, meaning that …
Mechanical Turk is Amazon’s army of pieceworkers, ready to help you blend computation with human tasks in web apps.
What I didn’t know is that MTurk is also a powerful tool for testing and refining ideas. I learned this while …
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President Obama has been touting patents as a way to create jobs and increase U.S. competitiveness. “These are jobs and businesses of the future just waiting to be created,” he said of patent applications last September, “somewhere in that stack …
Now that almost every payments-related company has a digital wallet of its own, it’s about time MasterCard showed off its digital plans.
The credit card company unveiled PayPass Wallet Services today at the CTIA conference in New Orleans. Just like …
Nevada has approved Google’s application for a license to test its driverless cars on Nevada’s roads today, a big step for the project and for autonomous cars overall.
The license will allow Google to drive these cars across the state …
Android accounts for 61 percent of all smartphone sales, according to data published today by NPD Group.
That number is trailed by the 29-percent stake claimed by iOS devices, and RIM and Windows Phone are nowhere close.
These figures for …
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The jury has just now returned its partial verdict for the first (and perhaps most important) phase of the Oracle v. Google trial: The 12 jurors found Google had infringed on Oracle’s copyrights by its use of structure, sequence, and …
The home of the future is inching closer.
AT&T on Monday announced “Digital Life”, a home security and automation platform that allows home owners to have unfettered control over the various minutiae of their home , including shades, door locks, …
Lately, Google has been keen on dropping significant money to attract original programming for YouTube and to promote those programs across its network. Now, Google is reportedly investing in content producers themselves.
Ultra-popular content producer Machinima may see a $30 …
Google’s Hangouts group video-chat on Google+ continues to be the social network’s most compelling feature. Today, Google is opening up the Hangouts On Air feature to all users, allowing them to broadcast their video chat sessions for the world to …
Motorola Mobility, say hello to the Windy City.
Google could be taking its ongoing acquisition to Chicago, if a report by Chicago Business is true. According to sources, Google has been looking into a few separate locations, the sizes of …
After announcing that it’s jumping into the Google TV fray at CES in January, an LG executive said today that it will begin building and shipping the sets later this month. But, with Google TV’s lukewarm welcome by consumers, and …
The Federal Trade Commission may levy its first multimillion dollar fine against Google over a security breach initially uncovered by a Stanford student, a sign that the agency is stepping up its efforts to safeguard consumers' online rights.
Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android.
Schwartz was Sun’s CEO. Sun owned the Java programming language, which is used heavily …
How important is attribution? If you’re OpenStreetMap, vitally.
OpenStreetMap (OSM), essentially a Wikipedia for geography, has caused quite a stir as of late over something seemingly quite innocuous: attribution in Apple’s iOS iPhoto app, which uses OSM data. Only users …
