Tag: "Google"
Google to Launch GroupOn competitor – Google Offers
Google is looking to launch a competing service to famous US and International daily offers website, GroupOn. Google tried to purchase GroupOn a few months ago for $6 billion, but the offer was rejected and GroupOn is now looking to go ahead with a $15 Billion Initial Public Offering (IPO). With Google’s huge resources, brand […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Network to allow signin with Facebook/ Google login
According to the Yahoo Corporate Blog, the Yahoo Network will soon allow you to sign-in to Yahoo! sites with your Facebook login or Google ID. Facebook already implemented sign-in with OpenID in 2008, and this next step will surely increase the activity on Yahoo sites. Currently Yahoo is attracting around 600 million visitors a month […]
Read More | ShareWeb 2.0 Summit Video, Facebook, Yahoo, Google execs
The Web 2.0 Summit showcases some of the most influential and successful web entrepreneurs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz, Twitter’s Evan Williams, AT&T’s John Donovan. This is a very interesting conference held in San Francisco, topics discussed include social media, e-commerce, classifieds sales such as Amazon – watch the […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Search Engine Market update October 2010
Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Android Overview [INFOGRAPH]
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In 2010 more handsets with Google Android were sold that any other Operating System handset. Windows 7 is now crowding the market even more and already receiving good reviews. Have a look at this infograph put together by cellphones.org showing an overview of how the Google Android operating system has gone to date. Infograph source: […]
Read More | ShareFacebook v Google
With people spending so much time on Social Media sites these days, there has been speculation the main competitor to Google may well be Facebook. Facebook now enjoys over 500 million registered members, still with huge signups on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Allfacebook.com has created the below infograph which is a great representation of the battle […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare V2.0 released for iPhone
Foursquare have released the latest update update to their iPhone application – version 2.0. We always knew V2.0 was going to be a big release and there are a number of new features and the overall presentation of the app has changed somewhat. A couple noticeable changes include: – a whole new to-do list which […]
Read More | ShareGoogle: The numbers
Sometimes is seems like Google is taking over the web. Everywhere you turn there is some kind of Google service. It’s interesting to have a look at Google’s history and how the company has grown. Have a think about the following Google statistics: – In 1996, Google has 25 million pages in their search index. […]
Read More | ShareGoogle launches Google Instant Search
Google has launched their latest search engine update – Google Instant Search. As you are typing in your query to the search engine, Google (using predictive text input) suggests possible search queries you may be looking for. Once step further from there is that if you are quickly running new searches – Google refreshes the […]
Read More | ShareHave we giving too much information to Facebook, Apple and Google?
Have we shared too much of our personal info with Facebook, Apple and Google? Facebook now has 500 million users globally, with 250 million logging in daily. The average user is creating 90 pieces of content each month. To use a Facebook application the user must give the application access to their personal information. At […]
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