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Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company's Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK
— Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000 emails …
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Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013
— Android is coming to our TVs, but has Google already lost the battle for the living room? — It's easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of the third floor. That may not be an accident …
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Behind The Scenes Of The Big Google Maps Redesign And Its Technical Challenges
— Google unveiled its completely redesigned Google Maps product on the web at I/O 2013, and at a panel dedicated to the new Maps experience, Maps User Experience Design Lead Jonah Jones and Engineering Director …
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Welcome to Google Island
— I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Francisco's Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session. My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions …
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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
— The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal. — I had just wrapped up a conversation with a man who owned a pair of Google's Internet-connected glasses, Google Glass.
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Glasses with Google Glass: Prescription versions appear at Google I/O
— What about Google Glass for those who don't like contacts? A few glasses with Glass attached were lurking on the show floor. — SAN FRANCISCO—Google Glass currently comes in five colors and has a pop-in sunglass visor …
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Canada's Competition Bureau plans investigation into Google Canada
— Canada's Competition Bureau is gearing up to launch a formal inquiry into the business practices of Google Inc.'s Canadian operations. — Google was recently notified by the Competition Bureau of the watchdog organization's intentions …
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Google Play In-App Purchase Revenue Growth Jumps 7X In One Year, Subscription Revenue Growing 2X Each Quarter
— Google held a session today at I/O 2013 about how to make money on Android, and in the initial few minutes it shared some updated stats around Google Play revenues and how those are progressing.
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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 …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
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).