Google announced that it has acquired social media management platform Wildfire Interactive for an undisclosed Sum.
Note: Mark Zuckerberg‘s sister, Arielle is now a google employee.
(Arielle Zuckerberg -Junior Product Manager at Wildfire Interactive, Inc)
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Google has acquired iOS and Mac email client Sparrow.according to Sparrow, Sparrow’s developers will now be joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision.Sparrow mail client would continue to be supported and critical bugs and security issues would be patched but but no new features will be added.
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Blogger a service from google has now dropped support for Opera browser.Just try blogger from Opera browser and here’s what you see:
“Your browser is no longer supported by Blogger. Some parts of Blogger will not work and you may experience problems. If you are having problems, try Google Chrome. | Dismiss”
It can be cleared by pressing Dismiss but it re-appears with every move to a new screen, and/or every refresh.
Google is shutting down some of its services. Shut down product list:
iGoogle will be retire On November 1, 2013
Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now google moving the remaining hosted content to YouTube as private videos.Migrate, delete or download your content from google video before August 20, 2012.
Symbian Search App – soon
Google Talk Chatback – This service allowed websites to embed a Google Talk widget.
Google Mini from beginning July 31
Google revealed in the Google I/O developer conference that Google+ now has over 250 million accounts and only about 150 million of those accounts are currently active.More users access Google+ on their mobile device than through a desktop computer and the average Google+ user spends 12 minutes a day “in stream”, up from 9 minutes just a few months ago.
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Google announced that it finds an average of 9500 new malicious sites every day.
Some important points from google blog:
Google protect 600 million users through built-in protection for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Find about 9,500 new malicious websites every day.
12-14 million Google Search queries per day show the google security warning.
Google provide malware warnings for about 300 thousand downloads per day.
send thousands of notifications daily to webmasters.
also send thousands of notifications daily to Internet Service Providers.
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Google announced that it has acquired QuickOffice.QuickOffice is the developer of mobile apps for Apple iOS, Android, and Symbian devices that allow users to view, edit, sync and share documents anywhere, anytime. Google working on bringing their technology to google’s Apps product suite.
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Google SketchUp 8 Maintenance 3 is now available for download.
what’s new in this maintenance release?
now only uses one network license seat when launching multiple instances of SketchUp on the same Windows machine.
More secure image libraries, better protected from potential security vulnerabilities.
Added a link displaying Open Source Credits in the About Google SketchUp dialog.
fixed some more crashes folks reported in Ruby Observers.
Improved messaging and workflow for users without a nickname
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Google has agreed to sell a popular 3D modeling platform SketchUp to Trimble Navigation for an undisclosed sum.
Trimble is a Sunnyvale, Calif. based compant, which makes surveying, mapping, and marine navigation equipment, said SketchUp will enhance the integration of its field presence with the wider enterprise.
Trimble will also partner with Google on running and developing SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse, an online repository where users can find, share, store and collaborate on 3D models.
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Google announced the new search algorithm update to combat webspam.This update will decrease rankings for sites that promote webspam. The new update affects about 3.1% of queries in English to a degree that a regular user might notice. The change affects roughly 3% of queries in languages such as German, Chinese, and Arabic, but the impact is higher in more heavily-spammed languages. For example, 5% of Polish queries change to a degree.
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