i/o Ventures Unveils 5 New Startups
i/o ventures has unveiled the second class of companies from its program. i/o ventures is an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship. They work closely with founders...
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Google Launches Google+, An Answer To Facebook
Google is about to be turned into one giant social network. The search giant has finally launched Google+, a year-long project led by Google Senior Vice President of Social Vic...
Google Launches Wdyl.com: A Unified UI To Search In Multiple Channels
Google has quietly launched wdyl.com, to gather up all of Google’s multifarious web services under one roof. The idea is to return users a single page of relevant results across...
How Startups Benefit From Fremium Business Models
Freemium is a business model that works by offering a product or service free of charge (such as software, web services or other) while charging a premium for advanced features,...
Google Is Shutting Down Google Health
In the coming months, Google is going to retire two products that didn’t catch on the way the company have hoped, but did serve as influential models: Google Health (retiring...
Google Products List: Over 500 And Still Counting
Google has over 500 products it its name that includes all major desktop, mobile and online products released or acquired by the company. Some of the products are either a...
Google Rolling Out Voice-activated Searches Via Chrome On Your Desktop
Google is now rolling out some of the new search technologies it previewed last week, including search by image and voice search on the desktop. The features are currently only...
Google Acquires SageTV, A DVR-maker
Inglewood, California-based SageTV has announced on its website today that it has been acquired by Google. The rest of the site, besides forums, has been closed down and visitors with...
Shopobot Reveals The Volatility of Prices for Consumer Products
Shopobot has announced its seed funding today from Google Ventures, AOL Ventures, and several strategic investors. Shopobot also opened its website to the public for the first time, revealing a...
Founder Lessons: Eileen Gittins-Dos And Don’ts When Pitching To VCs
Eileen Gittins is the founder and CEO at Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books. Be prepared for the...
Google Launches Me on the Web for Identity Management
Google has launched an online identity management tool “Me on the Web”. The tool is available through Google’s online dashboard, available to anyone with a Google account, this added section...
Rapportive Now Lets You Follow, Reply & Retweet Inside Gmail
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.You can immediately see what people look like, where they’re based, and what they do. You can establish rapport by...
T-Mobile Launches More for Me, A Daily Deals Aggregation Service
T-Mobile USA, Inc. has announced More for Me, a nationwide aggregation service that offers consumers the best in daily deals. The service is completely free. Beginning today, consumers using nearly...
Google Announces $280M Fund For Solar Project Financing
SolarCity and Google have announced the birth of a $280 million fund to finance residential solar projects. SolarCity has built 15 project funds with seven different partners to finance more...
Smarterer Measures Your Digital, Social And Technical Skills
People are rapidly accumulating a new set of digital and technical skills that make them valuable and effective in today’s workforce, yet no one is measuring or validating these skills.Smarterer...
Trada Connects Advertisers With The Best Paid Search Experts
Trada has developed a PPC marketplace that allows agencies and in-house advertisers to leverage the skills of hundreds of the best PPC experts in the world, who in turn earn...
Google Acquires AdMeld, An Advertising Platform For $400 Million
AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. Admeld’s mission is to keep premium publishers on the cutting...
Tips For Building A Dotcom Business
The internet has given us the tremendous power to engage with tools, people and groups without being constrained by geography. If you intend to build an online business or a...
The New Google Chrome Now Offers 3D Effects
Google has released a new version of its Web browser Google Chrome to its stable channel today. The updated version offers improvements in security and stability, says Google, most of...
Google Acquires PostRank, A Social Analytics Tool
PostRank has been acquired by Google. PostRank announced in a blog post that it has been acquired by the search giant. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. PostRank delivers...