Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Just in time for Thanksgiving travels, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is rolling out turn-by-turn navigation to all Android phones that have received the latest Android operating system update.
Google Maps Navigation was first available on the Motorola (. (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service which can turn any Web site into an online store.The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, you might see a photo of actress Pe (Read More)
Submitted by Annie Rob:
This leads us to two questions:
1. Why are the top sites paying for web analytics?
2. Who is perpetuating the myth that Google Analytics is all a good business needs? . (Read More)
TechCrunch:
LeWeb has published its schedule for the upcoming global conference for tech in Paris, and it’s looking pretty good. TechCrunch Europe is a media partner and is helping to organise the startup competition, so that’s our interest declared. That said Loic and Geraldine Le Meur have clearly finessed the event back towards tech (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Brief Overview: We are a start-up real estate search engine for Australia that sources it’s results from the “cloud”.Brand Name: homecloud Target Audience:Early adopters comfortable with web 2.0 mash-ups using Google Maps and other feeds. People looking for a simple way to find information on real estate around where they l (Read More)
Mashable!:
Remember when mashups were all the rage? Lately, they’re rarely mentioned, but that doesn’t mean a good mashup can’t be a fantastic service, even one that can replace several others. A mashup called Roomatlas ended up in our inbox, with a fairly simple description: it combines Google Maps with Expedia’s database of hotels (Read More)
The Post Money Value:
In between pounding on my product and getting ready for our beta (if you have a BlackBerry Device and are interested, email me), I've been trying to hold true to the giving back/pay it forward philosophies by meeting with the occasional start up to help review this or that. It's free advice and worth every penny.
Over the l (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Google says it’s getting close to adding extensions (which users install to add features to their web browsers) to its Chrome browser.Specifically, Google announced today that developers can not only build extensions, but also upload them into Google’s gallery showcasing Chrome extensions. That way, “developers have time to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Here’s the latest action:Amazon Web Services now calculates your app costs — To give users a better idea of how their applications will work and how much they will cost to run on Amazon Web Services, the company has just released a redesign of its AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. This tool allows users to select their regions (Read More)
New York Times:
Google, leader in Web search, said it was buying the Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, a move that expands its competition with display leader Yahoo. (Read More)
Phones Review:
If you think that Google Maps Navigation is the sole property of the Motorola Droid and its Android 2.0 operating system, you’d now be mistaken because Google has now backported Google Maps Navigation to Android 1.6 OS.Yes Android folk, Google has now made Google Maps Navigation available for Android 1.6 Dount packing mobil (Read More)
New York Times:
A deal to block Google searches from News Corporation content would erect uncustomary barriers and could scramble the landscape of the Web.
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VentureBeat:
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed startup, is opening up its crowdsourced photo-tagging service which can turn any Web site into an online store.The Mountain View-based startup uses an army of taggers to identify products and link them to shopping sites like Amazon or Zappos. For example, you might see a photo of actress Pe (Read More)
Engadget:
One could argue that the Motorola Droid is in fact the first-ever Android-based in-car navigation solution, but we're surmising that ArcherMind would disagree. Over at the Embedded Technology 2009 trade show in Yokohama, the outfit has demonstrated an Android-laden navigation system that could actually be inserted as a fact (Read More)
Ask...:
Rupert Murdoch is mad as hell and it appears he’s not going to take it anymore. The media mogul and News Corp chief is upset at Google, saying the Internet search giant is ruining the newspaper business.Not one to sit and around and just gripe about things, Murdoch says he might pull News Corp’s news from Google’s Web searc (Read More)