Goats are trending, the Harlem Shake is done, and YouTube is now embedded in Google Trends

Shockingly, Rebecca Black searches spike every week on the day after Thursday and before Saturday.

App Annie launches Amazon Appstore analytics: Amazon is all about fun, Google is all about utilities

And what the data shows is that the top apps on Amazon are very, very different than Google Play.

Make a movie with Google: New Chrome experiment highlights Web Speech API

In the Peanut Gallery, you get to add intertitles to old black-and-white movies (the ones before any speech support, never mind the web). And you do it, of course, simply by talking to Chrome.

Google brings Chromebooks to the world (or at least more of it)

After being Amazon.com's best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home.

Samsung’s Galaxy S IV will mark the beginning of the end of Samsung’s smartphone dominance

The more Samsung "adds value" to Android by customizing a version of it for the Galaxy line of phones, the more it will suck.

Google and Samsung: With partners like these, who needs enemies?

With the new Galaxy S4, Samsung is moving farther and farther away from Google. In fact, you have to wonder, will Samsung turn into the new Amazon?

BringGoogleReaderBack.com and KeepGoogleReader.com beg Google to reconsider killing Reader

The great thing about geeks is that they are smart, fast, and have the power to create stuff instantly.

RIP, Google Reader: Here’s what to use instead

So Google is shutting down Google Reader and the Twitterati are up in arms. What's a old-fashioned RSS-loving web geek to do? Find an alternative, of course.

We love showrooming: Google adds new globally available Product Listing Ad to mobile

Google's ramping up mobile monetization today with a new sponsored search result ad type, a product listing ad. It also reduces the mobile search presence of the showroomer's biggest ally: Amazon.com.

StartApp’s growth explodes: 500 million downloads, more searches on Android than anyone but Google

"We're seeing a billion pageviews per month," CEO Gil Dudkiewicz told me on the phone this afternoon.

Google brings its clean new iOS app style straight to the mobile web

"Yeah, but the Contacts page still looks like it was developed by Fred Flintstone."

Google patents your useless four fingers

When you're holding your mobile phone in one hand, you generally have a thumb on the front for scrolling, typing, and tapping, and four fingers clamped more or less uselessly around the edge. But perhaps not for long.

Google’s awesome ‘Field Trip’ app launches for Apple’s iPhone

Google already has five of the six most popular apps in America, with Google Maps, Search, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Play. But that is apparently not enough for the search-and-mobile-and-everything giant.

Marissa Mayer’s 6-month bonus from Yahoo: $1,000,000

In six months under Mayer, Yahoo's stock price has jumped from $15 to $23, adding over $17 billion in market value to the still-slumbering purple giant.

Happy birthday to you: Free stuff from Google for your Android phone

Google Play turned one today, and in honor of the birthday, Google is celebrating by giving gifts. Gifts for you, that is, and your Android device.

The 21 ways Google makes money from mobile (infographic)

Google had its first $50 billion year in 2012. With its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. Here's how.

We will download 70 billion mobile apps in 2013 (50% Android, 41% iOS)

In 2013, we'll download ten apps for every single woman, man, and child on planet Earth.

How Google searches 30 trillion web pages, 100 billion times a month

How do you run 100 billion web searches a month?

Google wins! Publishers win! No one wins, in German news copyright decision

Google and news publishers in Germany are going to have more problems before this all gets figured out, and this recent legislation is a complete waste of time.

Google Glass is a giant chisel to pry me out of Apple’s ecosystem

In Glass, I think, we sense the birth struggles of the new human. Hacked. Connected. Augmented. Enhanced. And yeah, way geekier.