Sunday, February 5th, 2012 2:50 pm

Chrome 4.0 with 1,500 Apps

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): It’s all about numbers: Google has released update 4.0 to its Chrome browser, promising improved security and more than 1,500 new features through extensions, along with an Opera-like bookmark sync function. "We are excited to usher in the new year with a bundle of browser goodness for the stable version of Google [...]

Twitter in Talks with Microsoft and Google

San Francisco (ip-192.com): Well - we may have come a bit closer to answer the $1 billion questions! How much is Twitter really worth? Twitter is currently in advanced talks to Microsoft and Google to license its data feed to the companies search engines, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Both companies seem to [...]

Rift between Apple and Google widens

Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Google continue to drift away. News that Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a company that develops APIs used for mapping, is the latest sign of an increasing rift. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's acquisition actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using [...]

Wave: Google’s new Collaboration Tool

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Well, your e-mail account could be a thing of past – at least according to Google. The search giant is inviting 100,000 testers to preview its new communications platform called Wave. Google describes Wave as an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. The program allows people to review and discuss documents [...]