Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

Президент и главный исполнительный директор Yahoo Марисса Майер (Marissa Mayer) на ежегодном собрании акционеров компании в среду объявила о партнерстве с Oracle, направленном на вовлечение большего числа пользователей в поисковую систему Yahoo. Начиная с текущего месяца, пользователям при установке или обновлении программного обеспечения Java Oracle будет предложено сделать Yahoo поисковой системой по умолчанию и стартовой страницей браузера. Сделка может привлечь миллионы пользователей в Yahoo именно в т... →

Lost My Name, the London-based startup behind the hugely popular “The Little Boy/Girl Who Lost His/Her Name”, a personalised picture book for kids, has picked a $9 million Series A round. Google Ventures led the investment, along with Greycroft, The Chernin Group, Allen & Co, and former SunGard President and CEO Cris Conde. Read More... →

London has emerged as a major hub for digital advertising and marketing, and today one of its faster growing startups is getting some funding to go to the next level. Yieldify, a marketing tech business that has built software to improve and track on-site and email conversions — that is, for e-commerce businesses to keep people shopping, buying and generally interested instead of… Read More... →

Google Ventures is investing in a startup that makes personalized children’s books. Called Lost My Name, the company uses algorithms to create children’s books based on the letters in their name. Today they’re announcing a $9 million funding raise from Google Ventures, Greycroft, The Chernin Group, Allen & Co, and angel investor Cris Conde. Each book follows the same […]... →

Google hasn’t announced it yet, but the company earlier this year started offering free beta access to Cloud Source Repositories, a new service for storing and editing code on the ever-expanding Google Cloud Platform. It won’t be easy for Google to quickly steal business from source code repository hosting companies like GitHub and Atlassian (with […]... →

ANALYSIS: In the fierce battle for our mobile attention, Facebook has almost no peer. Google and Facebook have similar total reach among U.S. adults, between 228 and 222 million monthly users. But Facebook stands alone when you combine time spent and total reach, even if you add Google and YouTube together.... →

Posted by RuthBurrReedyThe important thing to remember when you're trying to attract links—real, powerful, high-quality, authoritative links—is that behind each of those links is a person. The kinds of links that Google wants you to build are the kinds of links that you get when a real live person decides to share or link to your content. That great content you're creating is designed to be the kind of stuff people like to share, but getting people to share it often requires outreach. When you ask someone t... →

GUEST: Just three major vertical silos -- owned by Google, Microsoft, and Apple -- own the majority of the business, collectively managing well over a billion accounts.... →

Казалось бы, все знают, что из себя представляет стартап-Мекка мира – Cан-Франциско. Но как она выглядит в цифрах и фактах? Юлия Кожевникова из Tranio.com проводит короткую экскурсию по городу и его окрестностям.    «Город состоит из молодых и амбициозных людей, которые легко попадают под влияние друг друга. Кажется, что все работают над чем-то новым. Концентрация энергии и общественное воздействие — часть магии Кремниевой долины»,— пишет Forbes о Сан-Франциско. Сан-Франциско — это цель №1 для предпринимате... →

Voice-powered interfaces are the way forward. For me to make such a pronouncement is kind of ridiculous, as I’ve been an incredibly slow adopter of features like Goole Now and Siri, based on the belief that using any kind of voice-powered computing platform in public is downright awkward even when speech recognition and natural language processing actually works. But after about a month… Read More... →

Google today announced that its next data center — its seventh in the U.S. and fourteenth worldwide — is coming to Alabama. Google will build the new data center on the grounds of the soon to be decommissioned Widows Creek coal power plant in Jackson County. According to local news reports, the company plans to spend about $600 million on this project, which will create about 100… Read More... →

Google has upgraded its Chrome OS-based videoconferencing system, Chromebox for meetings, with an improved camera, better microphone and speaker, and enhancements to screensharing and dual screen displays.... →

Every time you check your Gmail, search on Google for a nearby restaurant, or watch a YouTube video, a server whirs to life in one of our data centers. Data centers are the engines of the Internet, bringing the power of the web to millions of people around the world. And as millions more people come online, our data centers are growing, too. We've recently expanded our data centers in Iowa , Georgia , Singapore and Belgium .... →

Microsoft today announced that its new cloud-based data warehousing service, the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is now available in a limited public preview. Microsoft first showcased the service at its Build developer conference in April. Companies can use the new service in addition to, or instead of, expensive data warehousing hardware that can live in […]... →

Spotify today announced that it has acquired Seed Scientific, a consulting confirm that specializes in data science and analytics. The acquisition is helping Spotify start a new advanced analytics team “that combines cutting-edge math, science, design, and engineering to craft insights, models, and tools with data,” according to a statement. Terms of the deal weren’t […]... →

We're excited to announce that our next Analytics Academy course, Google Tag Manager Fundamentals , is now open for participation. Whether you're a marketer, analyst, or developer, this course will teach you how Google Tag Manager can simplify the tag implementation and management process. You'll join instructor Krista Seiden to explore topics through the lens of a fictional online retailer, The Great Outdoors and their Travel Adventures website. Using practical examples,... →

Posted by John Krouskoff, Manager of Emerging Technologies, Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog .) Editor's note: Leading up to ISTE, one of the largest education technology conferences in the world, we asked educators and administrators to reflect on the past school year and look ahead to 2015-16. Today we hear from John Krouskoff, manager of emerging technologies at the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center .... →

Platform adds AdWords to Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools reporting capabilities. The post Megalytic Launches Google AdWords Integration For Customizable, Automated Reporting appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

El Capitan is already something I associate almost by default with Mac OS X, but it was a real mountain before that – millions of years before Apple previewed OS X 10.11, in fact, though it only got its name in 1851. Anyways, it’s the real mountain, not the Apple operating system, that Google now lets you virtually climb in Google Maps with its first ever vertical Street View… Read More... →

Microsoft today launched Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Android phones. Previously in preview, the apps have now hit general availability on Google Play: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The launch follows Microsoft’s big Office news in November, when it made mobile editing free and launched Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPhone, as well as the same […]... →