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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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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.
This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).