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NEWS 
November 14, 2016 Google Testing Groupon Clone for SMBs
There was a time when online coupons were presumed dead. However, in 2011 they’re cool again, having established themselves as a trusted friend of local retailers and an ally in helping them attract customers online and in store. In 2010, coupons were named one of the five can’t miss mobile marketing trends and their popularity […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 7, 2016 Google Announces Web Designer, Enhancements to DoubleClick
0 Google is set to launch a new app to help advertisers create Web ads and engaging Web content assets, using a standard called HTML5. The new tool is called Google Web Designer. Neal Mohan, Google’s Vice President of Display Advertising, pre-announced it on the official DoubleClick Advertiser blog: “To help advertisers and publishers more seamlessly […]
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COMPUTERS 
November 7, 2016 Google Web Designer HTML5 Tool is Updated
This week Google announced an update to its Google Web Designer HTML5 tool. The update brings more options to build interactive and animated content. It also brings tighter integration with AdWords. Google Web Designer is mainly intended to be used by advertisers, media agencies and creative agencies to design banner ads and other animations. It uses HTML5 […]
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ALL DEALS 
November 5, 2016 Google Welcomes Podcasts to Music Store
Remember Google Listen? The podcast app by Google that took your audio RSS feeds from Google reader and played them then on Android smartphones? Unfortunately, the service was terminated in August 2012. However, in a surprising reincarnation, Google has jumped back into the podcast world, adding podcasts to Google Play Music in a move that […]
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ELECTRONICS 
November 3, 2016 Google Pixel Positive Reviews Take Alphabet Shares to Record High
Alphabet Inc. shares hit a record high on Tuesday after mostly positive reviews for its new Pixel phones, the first line of phones designed in-house by its Google unit. The Mountain View, California-based company’s stock gained 2.5 percent to $826.85 at 2:43 p.m. in New York, after earlier reaching $828, the highest price since Aug. […]
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NEWS 
November 3, 2016 Google Discloses Windows 10 Bug Under ‘Active Attack’; Microsoft Working on Fix
HIGHLIGHTS Windows 10 vulnerability is win32k.sys system call Google said it’s being “actively exploited” Microsoft is unhappy with Google going public before patch On Monday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group published details of a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows 10 that allows hackers to escape security sandboxes by using a system call with win32k.sys. The reason […]
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ALL DEALS 
October 30, 2016 Google Parent Alphabet Profit Surges on Mobile, Video Ads
HIGHLIGHTS Alphabet’s net income climbed 27 percent to $5.06 billion Google is competing with Facebook for dominance in mobile advertising Advertising accounted for 89.1 percent of Google’s total revenue Google parent Alphabet Inc bested analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as the search company showed it has honed its core business for […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 30, 2016 Google Working on Prisma-Like ‘Style Transfer’ Technology That Lets You Blend Styles in Real-Time
HIGHLIGHTS Google claims its technology is not memory intensive Style transfer network uses artificial intelligence for applying filters Users can adjust strength of each painting style in final filter Image filter app Prisma drew attention from around the world when it launched in July this year. The app’s popularity gave way to a sea of […]
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NEWS 
October 30, 2016 Google Unveils Top 10 ‘India YouTube Ads’ Listing
HIGHLIGHTS IFTTT is web automation service works with ‘recipes’ Google Assistant will let you do more using IFTTT Google Home will go on sale just in over a week Google on Thursday revealed the India YouTube Ads leaderboard, a coveted listing of the ads that India chose to watch during July, August and September of […]
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NEWS 
October 30, 2016 Google Assistant Gets IFTTT Support; Makes Voice Commands on Pixel, Google Home More Powerful
Google unveiled its smart home speaker called Google Home at its Made by Google event on October 4. The speaker, like the Google Pixel smartphones, is powered by the Google Assistant. At the time of launch, Google Home did not have many integrations to work with, but that should change when the Assistant SDK becomes […]
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ELECTRONICS 
October 29, 2016 Google tries new approach with voice on Pixel phone
The Assistant is always at the ready on the Pixel phone and can be summoned by pressing the home button or saying the words ‘OK Google.’ Photo: Reuters About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company’s Mountain […]
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NEWS
October 28, 2016 Google Parent Alphabet Profit Surges on Mobile, Video Ads
HIGHLIGHTS Alphabet’s net income climbed 27 percent to $5.06 billion Google is competing with Facebook for dominance in mobile advertising Advertising accounted for 89.1 percent of Google’s total revenue Google parent Alphabet Inc bested analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as the search company showed it has honed its core business for […]
