It was no secret that Google cofounder Larry Page hankered to be CEO at some point. (I should say, again–he was the founding CEO–but it always seemed from what I heard that he wanted another shot at the appropriate time.) Today, he got his wish, as Google just announced that he will take over from [...]
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If there’s one thing that struck me while I was researching an article on the future of television for Technology Review, it was all the fake living rooms. Google has one. So does Roku. So do Logitech, Sezmi, and Intel (which I believe has several in different states). I’m sure I missed a dozen more. It’s a sign [...]
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Like a lot of people, I’ve been taken a little aback by the incredible success of Groupon, the deal-a-day site that Google recently offered $6 billion to buy–only to be rejected last week, for pete’s sake. Estimates of annual sales, all thanks to the 50% cut it takes from deals offered daily by local merchants [...]
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Hulu is at the center of much of the controversy over how television will fare in the Internet age. The joint venture of NBC, ABC, Fox, and others offers one of the most complete collections of online TV content on demand. But it has blocked some key services such as Google TV. It also has [...]
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You can’t walk through a Best Buy these days without tripping over another new TV add-on box that lets you watch TV shows and movies from Netflix or Amazon Video On Demand, access apps like Pandora, or even (in the case of Google TV) browse much of the Web. ActiveVideo Networks, though, has a different [...]
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In the wake of broadcast networks’ controversial decision to block their Web sites from Google TV devices, the power of the broadcast and cable networks to determine how their content will be viewed is top of mind everywhere from Silicon Valley to Hollywood and New York. I was hoping that a panel that was to [...]
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Two days ahead of reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google continues to gain on the combined search engines of Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing–at least in the amount advertisers are spending on search ads. That’s the conclusion of the latest surveys from two search marketing companies, Efficient Frontier and SearchIgnite. According to Efficient Frontier, Google’s share of [...]
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