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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
FCC Nominee to Divest AT&T, Verizon to Avoid Conflict   —  Tom Wheeler, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the FCC, agreed to sell holdings of $500,001 to $1 million in both AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to resolve possible conflicts of interest before taking office.
May 17, 2013, 2:30 PMIn context
Sean Buckley / FierceTelecom:
CenturyLink launches 1 Gbps fiber pilot in Omaha   —  CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is providing its own answer to Google Fiber's (Nasdaq: GOOG) last-mile fiber vision by launching a 1 Gbps-capable fiber to the premises (FTTP) pilot deployment that will serve 48,000 homes and businesses in Omaha …
May 1, 2013, 3:40 PMIn context
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google Announces App Activities Coming To Search, Showing You Information Based On Usage By Other Google+ Users   —  Google's No. 1 strength is its search product, so it makes sense that all of their products feed back into it somehow.  Today, the company announced the introduction of “App Activities” into Search.
Apr 30, 2013, 12:25 PMIn context
Robert Scoble / Google+:
My two-week review of Google Glass: it all depends on the price   —  This week I gave five speeches while wearing it.  I passed through airports four times (two more in a couple of hours).  I let hundreds of people try my Google Glass.  I have barely taken it off since getting it other than to sleep.
Apr 27, 2013, 5:55 AMIn context
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google's One Today App Aims To Make Charitable Donations A More Social, And Frequent, Experience   —  Today, Google quietly ushered in a new application built on top of its nonprofit arm, Google.org.  The app is called One Today, and it's currently invite only for Android users at this time.
Apr 19, 2013, 7:35 PMIn context
Paul Foy / Associated Press:
Google Buying $39M Fiber Service In Utah For $1   —  Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo.  The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council …
Apr 18, 2013, 8:40 PMIn context
Erica Ogg / GigaOM:
Android on track for 1B total activations later this year, Google chairman says   —  As of today, there are now 1.5 million Android devices being activated every day, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.  That's led to more than 750 million Android phones currently in use.
Apr 16, 2013, 3:05 PMIn context
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Hours in, Facebook Home suffering from poor Google Play reviews as 48% of users award it 1 star   —  Update: After reaching out to a Google spokesperson, they've told us us that only those who have installed the app are able to leave a review, proving that the reviews are from legitimate users …
Apr 12, 2013, 5:25 PMIn context
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
WhatsApp: We're Not Selling to Google   —  Popular messaging app WhatsApp says it is not in discussions to sell the company to Google.  —  Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp's business development head, told AllThingsD today that the company is not holding sales talks with Google.
Apr 9, 2013, 12:10 AMIn context
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Google's AdMob Drops iOS SDK Support for UDIDs as Apple's May 1 Deadline Nears   —  Google has released an updated version of its AdMob SDK for iOS (version 6.4.0) that retires access to Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), weeks before Apple's official deadline for deprecating the system.
Apr 8, 2013, 11:15 PMIn context

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