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Google Buys File Transfer App Bump
ABC News
Google Inc. has acquired Bump, the maker of a smartphone app that allows users to share files by bumping devices together. The two companies did not release financial terms of the deal. In a blog post announcing the acquisition Monday, Bump CEO David ...
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Google knows every single Android user's WiFi password
TechSpot
New privacy issues have come to light surrounding Google's Android mobile OS. Experts on the matter are claiming that back up tools in the operating system make it so that a copy of every person's WiFi password (or the password of other networks you ...
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Google Buys Bump App
Wall Street Journal
Google has acquired Bump, a smartphone app company whose service allows users to transfer files between handsets by tapping them together. The companies didn't release terms of the deal. Bump was an early hit in app stores, and the idea of transferring ...
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Happy Birthday Google (again)!
Irish Independent
Search trends in Ireland over the last decade have been analysed and compiled to create an interactive site showing the stories that have evolved since Google set up shop on Irish shores. From a workforce of just five people in a cramped office on ...
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Google acquires mobile contact, file-sharing app Bump
ZDNet
Google will acquire contact and file-sharing app Bump, the startup announced on its blog on Monday. Bump co-founder and chief executive David Lieb said the company was "thrilled" to join Google, citing similar passions for sharing information between ...
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The Google Street View Case: Good News and Bad News
Slate Magazine (blog)
Is a Wi-Fi signal the equivalent of an FM radio station, blasting classic rock ballads through your car speakers? Not to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which issued its long-awaited decision in Joffe v. Google last week, the case where Google was ...
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Google unshackles Glass from pricey tethering plans
DVICE
Unless you plan to use Google Glass exclusively on Wi-Fi or as a camera, you're going to need a mobile data tethering plan in order to pipe the Internet through it. Correction: you previously needed a tethering plan. A new Google Glass XE9 update ...
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Google bets on 'videopreneurs' in India push
Hindustan Times
Couple this with a very powerful monetisation system and it creates an amazing opportunity for content creators," Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India, told HT in a recent interview. Over the last two years, the number of YouTube visitors ...
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Google buys Bump to share anything between your phone and laptop
VentureBeat
There are also plenty of other opportunities for integrating the Bump technology into Android as a default part of the operating system — Google's full-on Airdrop — and integrating it into Google tools such as maps. How many times have you looked up ...
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Google + Bump, Mindjet + Spigit, and More: Bay Area Deals Roundup
Xconomy
There were too many big mergers and funding announcements from the San Francisco / Silicon Valley tech community this morning to let them all pass by. To wit: —Bump, the Mountain View, CA-based Y Combinator graduate whose apps help mobile users ...
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Google Teams Up With the Solar Airplane, Solar Impulse
CleanTechnica
Solar Impulse reports that the Silicon Valley–based Internet company known as Google (heard of it?) has become Solar Impulse's official Internet Technology Partner. To commemorate this, the Solar Impulse team will take its Google+ URL ...
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Google Acquires Bump for at Least $30M
MarketWatch
Google has acquired the mobile startup Bump. A source close to the transaction said it was worth at least $30 million, and as much as $60 million. Bump had raised about $20 million from backers including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, so it ...
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Google Analytics To End Support For IE8 By Year's End
TechCrunch
Internet Explorer 8, which launched in 2009, isn't exactly a modern browser by any standards and it's slowly turning into the new Internet Explorer 6. Google stopped supporting Google Apps on IE8 last year, and today, the company announced that Google ...
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Google buys 1970s R&D buildings in Mountain View
San Francisco Business Times
The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports it is Google's latest transaction in what has been a very active few weeks, with Google closing on nearly 1 million square feet of real estate transactions in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. The 2.3-acre site ...
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Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Advertising Revenue: Doing In Its Own Way
eFinance Hub
There is speculation about Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and the National Football League recent meeting that Google will disrupt cable and satellite television providers. Ultra high-speed Google Fiber internet service construction in Kansas City, Austin ...
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Google Street View Car Smashes Into Three Different Vehicles in One Day
ABC News
A small Subaru hatchback on a mission to make it easier to navigate the streets of Indonesia ended up causing some traffic chaos near the nation's capital, police said. One of Google Maps' Street View vehicles caused three separate accidents last ...
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Google buys smartphone sharing app Bump
Technorati
In an announcement made on their blog, Bump CEO and co-founder David Lieb confirmed that the app has been purchased by Google. Bump is a smartphone app that allows users to share files, photos and contacts with a simple tap of the phone.
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Google Plus Now Integrated with Authorship Program
Small Business Trends
You may already be familiar with the Google Authorship program. Going for some time now, the program allows authors to sign up and link their Google profiles to content they create on the Web. When the content comes up in a Google search, the author's ...
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Google Buys Bump, A Wireless Data Sharing Startup
ValueWalk
Bump, a smartphone data sharing start-up has been acquired by Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), according to a statement from the company's CEO David Lieb. The firm said that Bump would continue to operate as it always has for now, but users should look ...
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Google Street View Car Accident; GTA 5 Leak; Nokia's Android Tests
PC Magazine
Topping tech headlines over the weekend was an overseas fender bender involving Google's Street View car. According to AFP, an Indonesian Street View driver in the Bogor district of Jakarta, Indonesia got into a bit of a dust-up with a minivan while ...
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Google investing in future tech jobs
KXAN.com
Google gave UT Elementary School $15,000 that allowed teachers to purchase the Chromebooks, iPads and other devices. A Google spokesman says the company wants to invest in the young people who will hopefully fill technology jobs in the future.
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Google Maps used to help clear landmines
Telegraph.co.uk
Google's mapping tools, in particular Google Earth Pro, help the charity identify and plot mined areas as well as create maps for donors, governments and NGOs. The maps help ensure that communities in countries affected by war avoid the horrific ...
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Google Glass No Longer Requires a Tethering Plan
Mashable
For Google Glass to be truly useful, it needs an active data connection, which means you'll need to buy a Bluetooth tethering plan from your carrier if you want to use it out and about. That was until the XE9 software update, though, which frees Glass ...
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Google Glass Update Allows Data Streaming at No Extra Cost
Latinos Post
Google Glass just got a little more user-friendly, or at least friendly to its users' wallets. In the most recent software update, Google has eliminated the need for an additional data-tethering plan, by allowing Google Glass to stream data directly ...
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Google may be trying to save Glass users from needing tethering plans
Ars Technica
Google may have tweaked its Google Glass so that users can share their smartphone data connection to the headsets without paying a tethering fee, according to a report from CNET. Nick Starr, a Google Glass Explorer Edition user, discovered the ...
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