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Google has acquired Bump — a super-popular sharing app for iOS and Android. The announcement was made today on the company’s official blog. Bump, founded in 2008, lets users share information by bumping phones together. It came into existence even before NFC technology, and quickly proved insanely popular. The app has been downloaded over 100 million Continue Reading →

There used to be a time when observing a top secret military base in one of the world’s biggest and most powerful countries would have required cutting-edge technology, scaling a fence or two-dozen, and more guts than any reasonable (or sane) person should have. Today, all you need is Google. According to Time, an eagle-eyed Continue Reading →

The concept of the universal translator — a device that can fluidly convert any spoken language to that of the user – has been a sci-fi staple since pretty much the beginning of the genre as we know it today. The first known mention stretches all the way back to 1945, and it’s taken on Continue Reading →

Michael Dell has finally wrestled control of Dell, the company he founded, back from its shareholders. A board vote this morning ends month of speculation on whether it would approve Michael Dell’s multibillion-dollar offer to take the company private. Dell’s offer saw strong competition in the form of a counteroffer from “activist investor” Carl Icahn, Continue Reading →

A federal appeals court rejected Google Inc’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of violating federal wiretap law when it accidentally collected emails and other personal data while building its popular Street View program. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to exempt Google from liability under the federal Wiretap Act for having Continue Reading →

Google has unveiled some new programs to help users and creators better interact with the content found on its property. Starting Monday, it is leveraging its Google+ Sign-In technology to bolster its Authorship program. Additionally, the company is making it easier for people to share content from its social network to other sites with embeddable Continue Reading →

Google released on Monday the 2013 version of its Nexus 7 with 4G LTE in the US. You can grab it now from Google Play for $349. That’s the price of the 32GB version with 4G on T-Mobile; for reference, the Wi-Fi models go for $229 (16GB) and $269 (32GB). At the same time, Google Continue Reading →

As anyone who’s stuck Google Glass on their head knows, controlling its UI via swipes, nods and voice commands can sometimes be… awkward. Now you can do it remotely, thanks to an update to the MyGlass companion Android app. It uses Glass’ so-called screencast experience, which is a way of letting other users see what Continue Reading →

Google Glass should be worth $3.27 billion to Google in 2017, says one financial analyst who has been wearing the device and showing it to investors. Even with zero profit margin, Google should be able to make money from Glass via additional searches, better targeting from increased data collection and revenue share from app sales. Continue Reading →

Google has announced the launch of Chrome Apps on Thursday in a bid to establish the Web browser as more of a platform in itself. The new apps are similar to what the Chrome Web Store already offers, but instead of launching in the usual looking browser, it launches sans address bar and navigations buttons, Continue Reading →