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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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?”
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.