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Google Office Launches

Yep it’s official, Google Office is now live. Dubbed Google Docs & Spreadsheets it’s the one place where you can create, store, share and publish your documents and spreadsheets online.
Read their blog here.
Check out the new service here.

Google Has Aquired YouTube

Moments ago the deal was confirmed. In their largest acquisition to date, Google has acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in an all stock transaction. Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter. YouTube’s 65 employees will remain with the company at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters.
Details are also emerging that […]

Google buying YouTube?

Google is currently in talks to snatch up YouTube for $1.6 billion, TechCrunch is reporting. The blog’s source says discussions are taking place and there is still a possibility the deal may not go through.
Apparently the Wall Street Journal is also reporting this, saying “Google Inc. is in talks to acquire popular video-sharing site YouTube […]

Google Announces Code Search

Today Google launched Google Code Search, which gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code.
Check out the CodeSearch and also their entire GoogleCode for Developers for the latest and greatest that’s available for you and your website.

Google’s Blog Pinging

Google announces that they are now “pinging” blogs.
“Got blog? Will Ping?”
Ping your blog here.
Here’s the official announcement:
Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog […]

RealNetworks tries to keep up

What’s the point? Does anyone even use “Real Player” anymore?
They can try, but there’s no catching up to the iPOD or even the new ZUNE for that matter.
story:
RealNetworks introduced a new version of its Rhapsody music service Thursday that aims to fend off Microsoft’s Zune and loosen Apple Computer’s grip on the portable music market […]

Google Buys Their Old Garage Where It All Started

Internet search leader Google has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire - the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
The Mountain View-based company bought the 177-square-metre home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own […]