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Article | 13/11/2007 Google releases Android SDK

Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers can use to create mobile phone applications for the company's Android mobile pl...

Article | 12/11/2007 Q&A with Google Android Developer

Google seeks to build a "vibrant third-party developer community" for its Android mobile platform, Google co-founder Rich Miner says.

Article | 7/11/2007 Facebook gives social spin to online ads

Facebook presented its master plan for boosting its advertising revenue now that it has the challenge of living up to its stratospheric US$15 billion ...

Article | 6/11/2007 Google's mobile move: awe-inspiring and terrifying

Google's announcement on Monday of a mobile development platform that could radically alter the wireless market is yet another example of the lengths ...

Article | 5/11/2007 Google to announce mobile platform

Google negotiators this weekend continue to hammer out agreements with wireless carriers, handset makers, software developers and hardware providers, ...

Article | 2/11/2007 MySpace joins Google's OpenSocial project

Google's OpenSocial got a major boost on Thursday when MySpace, the world's most popular social networking site, announced it will participate in the ...

Article | 1/11/2007 Google makes social networking power move -- finally

Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking as an online service and advertising vehicle, Google this week will unleash its strongest re...

Article | 1/11/2007 Google shares break US$700 on reports of wireless talks

Google's stock broke through the US$700 mark on Wednesday, after press reports that the search engine giant is in advanced talks with US wireless carr...

Article | 31/10/2007 Yahoo Messenger deepens social networking features

Yahoo, disconcertingly unable to develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenge...

Article | 31/10/2007 Report: Google phone platform due out in mid 2008

Google will come out in mid-2008 with a mobile phone platform that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create...

Article | 25/10/2007 Facebook chooses Microsoft over Google

Facebook will sell a US$240 million minority stake to Microsoft, which as part of the deal will also expand the advertising services it provides to th...

Article | 25/10/2007 Report: Google and Microsoft slobbering over Facebook

Like rival lovers, Google and Microsoft are intensely courting Facebook, as the social-networking upstart picks petals off a flower -- "she loves me, ...

Article | 24/10/2007 WEB 2.0 - Google wants your phonemes

Although Google's non-search engine products, like its Google Apps Web hosted collaboration and communication software suite, get much attention, sear...

Article | 22/10/2007 WEB 2.0 - Reporter's notebook: Google guys do hate evil

At the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit, attendees learned that having their genome mapped will set them back US$300,000 and that Google's founders real...

Article | 20/10/2007 Google Gets Undue Credit for Ad Conversions

Google has gotten undeservedly all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop t...