A rather standard how-to YouTube clip is causing a stir in Russia after becoming the focus of a dispute between the government and the video site. The three-minute clip, which provides instructions for applying scary Halloween makeup, was banned at...
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Samsung Braces for Next Battleground With Google
Samsung made itself the brand to beat in the crowded smartphone space by backing Google’s Android software –- 96 percent of the South Korean company’s shipments ran on the platform. Now, it’s planning a high-end smartphone powered by Intel-backed open-source...
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Yuri Milner, co-founder of investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, predicted three websites that will survive until 2113.
Three Websites That Will Last 100 Years: Yuri Milner Predicts
Yuri Milner, the Russian investor whose early bet on Facebook made him a billionaire, thinks three websites will endure for 100 years. Not surprisingly, the world’s largest social network was one of them. The other two he named are Google...
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Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, with the Firefox logo during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Mozilla’s Fox Tries to Steal Spotlight and Outrun Google’s Android
While many European technology companies have pared back their presence at this week’s Mobile World Congress, Silicon Valley’s Mozilla is leaving a noticeably bigger footprint. The maker of the popular Firefox web browser sent about a hundred employees — which...
Read more »In Fast-Growing Mobile Ad Business, How Fast Is Fast Enough?
After Millennial Media reported this week a 71 percent surge in 2012 sales, the company’s CEO started calling top investors — to address their concerns. As much as the mobile-advertising company is growing, it’s not enough to meet its own...
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Entrepreneurs in Nairobi said Google Chairman Eric Schmidt visited the iHub, a startup co-working space, to meet a dozen companies.
Google’s Eric Schmidt Sees Nairobi as Africa’s Technology Leader
After a week of traveling around sub-Saharan Africa, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt saw what he thinks could be the continent’s technology leader: Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. “Nairobi has emerged as a serious tech hub and may become the African leader,” he...
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Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg introduces Graph Search at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
First Impressions of Facebook’s New Graph Search
If you follow directions, Facebook’s new search engine is pretty amazing. But veer off course, and the results reveal just how limited the tool is right now. During an event today at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Facebook introduced...
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Are Consumer Electronics Killing the Consumer Electronics Show?
You won’t find booths by Apple, Microsoft, Google or Amazon at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Nor will you see the CEOs at the largest U.S. cable operators, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, or media companies such as Disney and CBS. Nokia and...
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A Toshiba Excite Android tablet is shown at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Android Is Red Hot, Except With the Business Crowd
Google’s Android software for mobile devices has opened up a wide lead in market share, but it hasn’t made the same inroads with a lucrative niche: businesspeople. While Android is expected to grab 68 percent of the smartphone market this...
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The listing for Google Maps in Apple's App Store contains a plug for the San Francisco Italian restaurant Delfina.
Nice Location: Italian Restaurant Promoted on Google Maps App
When the Google Maps app for the iPhone arrived last night, it was greeted with cheers by those who were literally lost without it. But perhaps no one was more excited about the new application than the staff of an...
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