Robin Wauters / MobileCrunch:
Google: Android Market now serving 30,000 apps — At the most recent Mobile World Congress, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that the company’s partners are now selling over 60,000 Android handsets on a daily basis. With that kind of growth rate, it’s no wonder that the size of the Android Market …
In Brad Stone and Miguel Helft’s NYT piece on Apple and Google , they say Apple’s feud with Google can be reduced to one key point of tension: The iPhone versus Android: At the heart of their dispute is a sense of betrayal: Mr. Jobs believes that …
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs feels that Google “violated the alliance” it had with Apple when the search giant began producing cellphones that resemble the iPhone, according to a The New York Times piece that details the bitter rivalry between the two …
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New York Times:
Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal — IT looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. — Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple’s co-founder, to help him unveil …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Why Google Android Favoritism Isn’t Punishing Consumers and Partners — Late last night, Mark Spoonauer of Laptop Magazine penned an editorial about Google. It’s a smart opinion piece with the stance that Google is showing favoritism for their own platform and specificially for the most current versions of Android.
Kelsey Munro / Stuff.co.nz:
How Google became the indispensable frenemy — It’s the two-man start-up that in a few short years became a global colossus – the brand that became a verb. Like no other entity in the past 12 years, Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has transformed the world.
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Ballmer: Google leads because ‘they did it right first’ — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t really know how to answer. Can Bing be No. 1 in the U.S. search market? — “There’s no good answer to this question,” Ballmer said Tuesday at the Search Marketing Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. “If you say yes, you sound arrogant.
Virginia / Picnik Blog:
Picnik Acquired by Google — When Bitnik, Inc was created, our founders envisioned making great software for real people and giving users the power to edit digital photos in their browser, without having to purchase or download complicated software. While our first office in 2005 only had two desks …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA CEO Tries To Connect China Google Hack With Google’s Attitude Towards Copyright — The RIAA has made some bizarre and totally nonsensical arguments in its time, but it may have just set a new low. castilho points us to an opinion piece written by RIAA boss Mitch Bainwol that tries to pin …
Business Week:
And Google Begat… The search giant’s former employees are seeding tech startups—and shaping another wave of innovation — During the holidays last year, Aydin Senkut and Elad Gil gathered 50 of their friends at a health-food restaurant in Palo Alto. Over turkey burgers and tofu wraps …
