GoDaddy Partners with Google to Offer Customers Web Management Tools
GoDaddy.com is working with Google as the pilot partner for a new effort to seamlessly integrate Google Webmaster Tools into customers’ Web hosting accounts. With Google Webmaster Tools, Go Daddy users are now able to see how Google views their site, diagnose problems and share information with Google in order to improve their site’s visibility [...]
Google’s $10 Million Android Developer Challenge
Google today announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Androidâ„¢, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is designed to support the developer community and spark innovation on the Android platform by awarding cash prizes ranging from $25,000 to $275,000 to developers [...]
Industry Leaders Announce Open Platform for Mobile Devices
A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. Google Inc., T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of Android through the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and mobile [...]
Google Launches OpenSocial API
Google today announced the release of OpenSocial — a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web — for developers of social applications and for websites that want to add social features. OpenSocial will unleash more powerful and pervasive social capabilities for the web, empowering developers to build far-reaching applications that users [...]
OpenSocial: MySpace and Google Join Forces
MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation [...]
Google introduces Finance tab on iGoogle and Gadgets API
Google has rolled out a couple updates to more quickly connect users with the financial information they are looking for: Google Finance tab on iGoogle — A dashboard of financial gadgets created by the Google Finance team, available on iGoogle. Google Finance gadgets are interactive and update dynamically, allowing users to quickly and easily find [...]
Nielsen and Google Establish Strategic Relationship
The Nielsen Company and Google today that the companies have established a multi-year, strategic relationship. As a first step, the relationship leverages Nielsen’s experience in television audience measurement to bring demographic data to the Google TV Ads™ advertising platform. By combining Nielsen demographic data with aggregated set-top box data, Google can provide advertisers and agencies [...]
Google Announces Third Quarter 2007 Results
Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. “We are very pleased with the impressive growth we experienced across our business,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “Our core search advertising business experienced continued momentum driven by growth in monetization and traffic, and we are creating a wider and deeper ads [...]