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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million   —  Google has finally closed the deal on Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for a price that is more than $30 million, we're hearing from a legitimate source.  —  Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and Google eventually won.
Apr 23, 2013, 3:30 PMIn context
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
New Nexus 7 reportedly gets Qualcomm chip, better screen, and lower price   —  Sources expect it in July, could be introduced at Google I/O in May.  —  Google and Asus' Nexus 7 tablet won us over quickly upon its release last year with its size, quality, and price, and while Google gave …
Apr 3, 2013, 10:15 AMIn context
Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority:
LG joins the fray, making a smartwatch and a Glass-like device   —  LG is joining the wearable computing race with a smartwatch of its own, and even a device that is similar to Google's Project Glass.  —  Coincidence or not, we've been hearing a lot of buzz lately about various companies …
Mar 22, 2013, 12:05 PMIn context
Katherine Kuan / The Official Google Blog:
Google Keep—Save what's on your mind   —  Every day we all see, hear or think of things we need to remember.  Usually we grab a pad of sticky-notes, scribble a reminder and put it on the desk, the fridge or the relevant page of a magazine.  Unfortunately, if you're like me you probably often discover …
Mar 20, 2013, 4:37 PMIn context
Zite's blog:
Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)   —  We at Zite were sad to hear about Google Reader's impending demise.  Google Reader and Zite have always been complementary products: GR providing news from sources you've subscribed to manually and Zite giving …
Mar 15, 2013, 1:40 AMIn context
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores   —  We've been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about Google dogfooding “Google Shopping Express,” its same-day Amazon Prime and Postmates competitor.  While we originally reported …
Mar 11, 2013, 11:55 PMIn context
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
Google Translate to add dialects for text-to-speech feature?   —  As noted by the unofficial Google Operating System blog, Google could soon add the option to select a dialect for certain languages in its text-to-speech feature within Google Translate.  The option is currently hidden …
Feb 28, 2013, 7:55 PMIn context
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Deal for Kodak Patents Approved by Judge   —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG) and other technology companies won court approval for a $525 million deal for Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ) patents that are being sold as part of Kodak's bid to exit bankruptcy protection.
Jan 11, 2013, 2:35 PMIn context
Manuela D'Alessandro / Reuters:
Google executives acquitted in Milan autism video case   —  (Reuters) - An Italy appeals court acquitted three Google executives of charges of having violated the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.
Dec 21, 2012, 8:10 AMIn context
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Deep Dive With Google's Snapseed Team: Android App Launches, iOS Is Free And Instagram Should Watch Out   —  One of the things that we hear the most from pundits when Google acquires a company, much like it did Nik Software, makers of the gorgeous and dead-simple to use app Snapseed, is “What will they end up doing with them?”
Dec 6, 2012, 9:50 AMIn context

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