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Google Acquires Slide, Maker of Social Apps

Google has acquired Slide , the start-up that makes apps for social networking Web sites, according to two sources briefed on the deal. Google will pay around $228 million for the company, according to one of the sources. Officials at Google and Slide declined to comment.
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Google Places API Offers Local Data To Check-in Developers

Google previously announced (at its I/O developer conference) the creation of a Places API as part of the Google Maps API. That Places API is now open for business and being made available to third party developers.
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Top US Web Stats in December 2009

According to Nielsen, the average US web visitor visited 83 domains, surfed 2,614 pages and spent an average of 56 seconds per page in December 2009. Google ranked # 1 with over 155 million unique users followed by Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook.
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Twitter said to be profitable (Chicago Tribune)

The social-networking site will get about $25 million from agreements with Google and Microsoft, enough to push it into the black for the first time, sources say. Twitter Inc. will make about $25 million from Internet-search deals with Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced in October, enough to push the site into profitability, people familiar [...]

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Google phone with T-Mobile contract in Jan: source (Reuters)

Reuters – Google Inc plans to sell two versions of its own-branded cell phone: one with a service contract with T-Mobile USA and another that is unlocked, a source familiar with the matter said.

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Google to produce, sell own “Nexus One” phones: report (Reuters)

Reuters – Google Inc plans to sell its own cellphone direct to consumers as soon as next year, bypassing wireless operators in a rare strategic move, the Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on Saturday.
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Europeans shy away from Google Android phones (Reuters)

Operators pushed market share of cellphones running Google’s software a little higher in September quarter in Western Europe, but consumers showed little interest toward them, research firm IDC said on Saturday.
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Google Offers Glimpse of Google Apps Script

Google announced this week that it has launched a limited test of a new feature, which lets people add customization and automation to Google Apps, starting with spreadsheets in Google Docs. They call this Google Apps Script . Google Apps Script lets users automate spreadsheet actions, like reading and changing values in cells and ranges, [...]

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OpenSocial’s Failed Promise: Only 0.7% of Apps Have Crossed Networks (ReadWriteWeb)

When the Google-led OpenSocial campaign launched in October 2007 it aimed to give developers a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code, deployable across Google sites, MySpace, Hi5 and numerous other social networks. A directory of OpenSocial Apps launched today and the reality is even further from that [...]

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