Google I/O: In-App Payments Announced, 17m Apps Installed On Chrome Web Store

Google’s Senior Vice-President of Social Vic Gundotra took the stage today at Google I/O to present at the Chrome Keynote, giving us an insight into the Chrome Web Store and how well it has been performing. Gundotra announced that since it launched at Google I/O last year, before becoming public in December 2010, the Chrome Web Store has facilitated 17 million application installations and is now available to Chrome’s 160 million users in 41 languages....

2 min · 254 words · Mitchell David

Google I/O: You can now rent movies from the Android market

Today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco atGoogle I/O, 5,000 plus people watched in the room and 110 cities tuned in from places like Cairo, Egypt, where it’s 2AM in the morning. Just announced at Google I/O, Android users can now rent movies from the Android market on the web, on the tablet and on your mobile phone, choosing from thousands of movies, competitively priced $1.99 -$3.99. On the tablet:“Pinning Movies” on the XOOM tablet means they are automatically in the background, downloaded to your device....

2 min · 266 words · Christopher Smith

Google illustrates the potential of Google Apps with a wedding planning guide

Ask any bride and she will tell you that planning her wedding day was one of the most stressful things that she has ever done. Even if the wedding day itself went without any hitches or the groom actually helped. The list of tasks before the big day is endless from digging up the band you had your first dance to in college, to finding a wedding dress that doesn’t make the bride feel fat....

3 min · 436 words · Susan Francis

Google improves sitelinks for better search results

Google search just became a lot more intuitive.The Official Google Blogreports that Google will be rolling out new features claiming to both expand and improve their original “sitelinks” format. The new sitelinks format is meant to make your Google search experience both quicker and easier by predicting what you are searching for and displaying relevant sections of the sites you might want to visit. According to Daniel Rocha, Software Engineer at the Sitelinks Team, this feature “is particularly handy for large and complex websites....

2 min · 248 words · Charles Andrews

Google in preliminary talks to buy Hulu

Google is in preliminary talks to purchase video streaming site Hulu, the L.A. Timesreports. Sources have told the publication that Hulu has been meeting with Google, along with Microsoft and Yahoo, in order to attempt to interest them in a purchase. As a part of the process of looking for potential buyers, Hulu’s financial advisors have set up meetings with a variety of technology and media companies. Note that these talks are standard procedure when a company like Hulu is looking to sell....

2 min · 371 words · Steven Long
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