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Google acquires ITA


Google acquires ITA

Congrats to Google on its acquisition of ITA software. The timing couldn’t be better, with the July 4th weekend coming up when ITA’s software is chugging along harder than usual. Here is a nice update from Google about the acquisition and the overall market space….

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Twitter Results in Google Search


Twitter Results in Google Search

With the Google-Twitter search deal done, we are now seeing the Tweets show up in the Google search results. Pretty awesome. Is twitter going to trump Wikipedia in the search results? It will be interesting to see how tweets will change the tone and quality of the…

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Google Maps Sync with BMW and Merc


Google Maps Sync with BMW and Merc

Google Maps Has lined up pretty good partnerships in the Geolocation ecosystem . It syncs with several GPS models like Garmin, Telenav and Tom Tom. Even better, if you have a BMW or a Merc it syncs with their in-built GPS – which is pretty…

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Murdoch and Google locking horns


Murdoch and Google locking horns

This is big news – Murdoch is making noises about preventing Google from crawling News corp sites. Jason Calacanis seems to have smelled this strategy ahead of time. Some interesting stuff going on here (http://bit.ly/2nOzNo). This could mean good news for Bing and an inflection point for…

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Is RSS dead?


Is RSS dead?

Mike must be pretty happy with the interest his article is generating about RSS being dead, now that Dick Costolo, founder of Feedburner is joining Twitter. This viewpoint seems to be a bit far fetched, at least for the time being. As several TC readers…

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Google trends and Economic Indices


Google trends and Economic Indices

I use Google Trends for understanding the popularity of a wide variety of phenomena. For example, it’s a good tool for getting a rough idea of relative market size. An useful tool. So its not surprising that Google has harnessed all that search query data…

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Silicon Valley Fallout of the Mumbai terror attacks?


Silicon Valley Fallout of the Mumbai terror attacks?

I just received email invites for the SF mobile meet-up and the Facebook tech talk. The RSVP policy for both had something that I have not seen before in such emails: Security is tight and if you are not on the RSVP list, you cannot…

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Dialogue and Ending Voilence


Dialogue and Ending Voilence

The violenceand brutality we see in this world (the Mayhem in Mumbai being the latest example) has its roots in the psychological make-up of human beings – not any one individual or group of individuals, but human consciousness as a whole. If we look closely, we…

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Power of Niche markets


Power of Niche markets

Check out the extract from this article about urban poultry farming. One of the sites catering to folks interested in this topic is generating 6 million PVs/month. That’s probably a million plus uniques/month! Chicken farmers are finding each other on sites like TheCityChicken.com, UrbanChickens.org and…

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Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style


Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style

The NY times has covered a Pretty Interesting start-up. The idea may have legs: Math – Indian Style Update: The article comments both here and on NY times are very illuminating.

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