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fflick The technology will be used to identify the use of copyrighted music and make appropriate payments to the rights holders. What RightsFlow Offers If you haven't listened to music on YouTube yet, you're not really a 21st-century...
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fflick Shortly after its debut, however, Katango’s autogenerator faced serious competition from Facebook itself, as it rolled out its new Smart Lists feature. Luckily for Katango, Facebook isn’t the only game in town.
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fflick Sounds huge, doesn’t it? It is. Apture founders Tristan Harris and Can Sar, along with their employees, will join the Google Chrome team, according to an announcement on the Apture.com homepage:
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fflick The exact details of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch notes this is more of a talent acquisition by Google. SocialGrapple started a year ago by Y Combinator alum Andrey Petrov.
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fflick This is the third acquisition within a two-month span aimed at strengthening Google’s own daily deals offering, Google Offers. What began as a two-person startup less than two years ago has transformed into a trusted platform to...
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fflick Google promises that Zagat ratings and reviews, which are currently behind a paywall, will become a “cornerstone” of Google’s local offering. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. I'm incredibly excited to collaborate with Zagat to...
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fflick Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Zave Networks Acquisition: What Google Gets We’re thrilled to welcome the Zave Networks team to Google. They have developed an impressive platform to connect consumers with coupons, special...
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fflick Google has acquired The Dealmap, a website that collects local deals and discounts and then makes them available via Twitter, a mobile app, and email. The service uses Google Maps to show deal locations, which could lead to more...
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fflick PittPatt's technology is likely to be used in Google+, although there are many potential applications. The PittPatt Acquisition PittPatt has been around since 2004, when it became its own spin-off company based on the technology of...
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fflick Google acquired social networking startup Fridge last night for an undisclosed amount, and yesterday hired the team behind Scoopler to work on Google+. Google Buys Fridge Google’s goal for the four-person Fridge team is to work on...
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fflick Punchd, a smartphone-based loyalty card business, has been acquired by Google for an amount believed to be more than $10 million. It is widely speculated that Google will use the service as part of its Google Wallet mobile payment...
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fflick SageTV, a software and hardware company that built a product for watching and recording TV shows from any computer with a high-speed internet connection, is likely to be integrated into GoogleTV.
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fflick Google is continuing its investments in the display advertising arena with its purchase of AdMeld, a publisher utility targeted at optimizing ROI for digital advertising. The $400 million purchase signals Google's continued...
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fflick With this acquisition, Google has gained a resource to better understand the social web, and that resource can be applied to great impact in several of Google's key social arenas. What Is (or Was) PostRank?
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fflick Sparkbuy, a consumer electronics search engine and comparison shopping startup, today announced that it has been bought by Google. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sparkbuy has ceased operations and the three-person team (CEO...
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fflick Google has acquired five-month-old startup TalkBin, a local business feedback platform, the company announced on its website. TalkBin describes itself on its website as "a way for your business to deliver a better customer...
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fflick Google has acquired Toronto startup PushLife for a reported $25 million, potentially another piece of the rumored Google Android Music service and iTunes competitor. PushLife's team will join Google's engineering team in Canada and...
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fflick Google's YouTube has bought digital video technology company Green Parrot Pictures, a move to enhance video quality and playback speed while reducing bandwidth on the web's most popular video-sharing site.
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fflick YouTube has bought Next New Networks, the company behind two of YouTube's top videos of 2010 ("Bed Intruder" and "Glitter Puke"). YouTube also announced plans for YouTube Next, a new effort aimed at helping content partners monetize...
Google this year has also bought Zynamics, fflick, SayNow, and eBook Technologies. Google has acquired UK price comparison site BeatThatQuote.com, a site focused on personal finance products. This is Google's fifth major acquisition of the year.