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Google acquired Meebo and all of its services back on June 4th, including its popular Messenger service. It quickly became known that Google was going to shut down the Meebo Messenger service, and today the team reiterated the closure in an email to its users and encouraged them to download chat logs: With Google's acquisition...

Analyst Gene Munster at Piper Jaffray believes that 2% of Google's total revenue in 2012 will be generated by iOS devices, which is in fact the largest chunk of search giant's mobile revenue (via Apple Insider). The analyst stated in a note to investors that Google will generate approximately $4.5 billion in mobile revenue over the year...

Today is Google's launch of their Google Maps event, and just prior they have announced the debut of Flight Search for Canada and is available in both French and English: Find flights quickly with results that load instantly in a format that’s easy to scan. Discover places to go on a map - see ticket...

Google has just acquired Quickoffice, the popular mobile office software developing company, in order to make the Google Apps product suite more compatible with various file formats. Even though Google Docs is available on mobile devices as well as personal computers, the focus of Quickoffice on devices like iPad and Android smartphones has led to its immense growth with reported installations...

Google has acquired the all-in-one messenger chat startup Meebo, as announced on the latter's blog: We are happy to announce that Meebo has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google! For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relationships with their users and to make their sites more social and...

Google+ for iOS has been updated today, and the app looks great. It flows well and is a much cleaner experience than its initial debut. It looks great, but the big question is: will I start using it? Here's how Google describes the new 'sense and soul' of the new update: A feast for the...

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, who is also considered as one of the most successful investors in the world, said that he would not buy shares of Apple or Google but would rather invest in International Business Machines Corp (IBM) which he believes will be a better investment for his company, reports Reuters. Buffett's revelation in November that...

In mid-February, the WSJ reported Google had allegedly breached the security of Apple's Safari browser, by forcing users to accept cookies from third parties. Google is now negotiating with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on how much of a fine it will have to pay, reports Bloomberg: The fine could amount to more than $10...

Reuters reports Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm have been ordered to face an antitrust lawsuit as they allegedly conspired to not 'cold call' and poach each other's employees. Five engineers proposed the class action lawsuit and have accused them of limiting millions in job pay and mobility in the tech industry for...

In a recent report by Mercury News (via 9to5Mac), it appears that Google may be fined by U.S. Federal Trade Commission over bypassing iOS Safari’s privacy settings and continuing to track users without their consent. Even though Google has already disabled the code responsible for such tracking, FTC is still looking deep into the matter and is planning to...

Today Google released information about Project Glass, a new augmented reality based set of glasses you wear that reminds us just how insane our future could become: A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in...

According to a brand evaluation survey from Nikkei BP Consulting, Apple is now the highest rated consumer brand out of over 1,000 different brands (via 9to5Mac), up from 11th place during the last year. This is the first time Apple has ranked No.1 in Japan, snatching the top spot from Google. The report suggests that the iPad...