This Google office has a real fireman’s pole, slide, cattle walkway, and more (gallery)

Nap rooms are so 2000s. Massage rooms are a dime a dozen. And the in-office gym has been around since at least the 90s. So if you want to up the ante, attract the best talent, and have the most brag-worthy office in the world, you need more.

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 announces ‘biggest change to AdWords in 5 years:’ mobile is now baked in

"This is a huge simplification to how advertisers manage and track mobile advertising campaigns," Larry Kim, CEO of search marketing firm WordStream, told me today.

Funding daily: eco-friendly plastic for electronics, mobile search, and flash memory

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …