July 19, 2015
How I Got Wooed By Startups As An Intern
My life changed when I got a job at a startup. I was 19 years old and had just finished my first year at the University of Michigan.…
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July 15, 2015
Google Unveils “Purchases On Google,” Which Are Basically Buy Buttons In Mobile Ads
Google today announced a new feature called Purchases on Google, which will make it easier for consumers to buy products directly from mobile search ads. The Wall Street…
Read articleJuly 14, 2015
Google Introduces New Open Format And Developer Tools For Working With BLE Beacons
Google today introduced a number of new products around Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons in an effort to challenge Apple’s iBeacon ecosystem. These new products include a new open beacon…
Read articleJuly 13, 2015
Yes, Google Photos Can Still Sync Your Photos After You Delete The App
Google’s recently rebooted Photos app might be syncing your photos without you realizing it. David Arnott, an editor at the Nashville Business Journal, writes that he found it…
Read articleJune 30, 2015
YouTube Brings 60fps Video Streams To Its Android And iOS Apps
Over the last few months, Google’s YouTube launched both 60fps video on the desktop and — later — for live video streams. Starting today, you can also watch…
Read articleJune 29, 2015
Where Computer Science, Engineering And Math Majors Want To Work
If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across…
Read articleJune 26, 2015
Google Now Allowing Project Fi Customers To Check Their Invite Status
Early adopters who signed up for Project Fi, Google’s recently announced initiative to provide its own cellular service, can now keep better tabs on the status of their requested invite thanks to a new…
Read articleJune 24, 2015
Google Maps Now Lets You Scale Yosemite’s El Capitan Mountain
El Capitan is already something I associate almost by default with Mac OS X, but it was a real mountain before that – millions of years before Apple…
Read articleJune 22, 2015
How Yahoo Is Fighting To Stay Relevant In The Mobile-First World
In a recent visit to Yahoo’s Sunnyvale headquarters, we got a better look at how the company is adapting the the mobile-first world. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
Read articleJune 18, 2015
Google Confirms Acquisition Of Agawi, A Specialist In Streaming Native Mobile Apps
Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place where smartphone users go for entertainment, information and more. So it should come as no surprise that one…
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