In the past, I’ve been critical of Google for trying to dance around directly calling out their competitors who are actively attempting to screw them. Today, they’re no longer dancing. In a post just put up on the main Google … Read more

If you haven’t heard of PIE, it’s probably because you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest. But the Portland Incubator Experiment has already amassed such an impressive roster of startups that everyone may know about them soon enough. Recognizing that, … Read more

Google has already admitted it made mistakes with its user name policy on Google+, its fledgling social network, and now we have further word on how the company plans to fix its mess. Google will warn users with names in … Read more

According to Gartner Group report, there are 141.1 million mobile payment-ready devices in circulation and that the vast portion of the world’s population (mostly in Asia) is actively using NFC and other techniques to pay for items via mobile. However, … Read more

Google plans to increase the number of celebrity members on its new Google+ social network by developing a way to verify their identities, reports CNN. The company hopes that having celebrities join and use Google+ will help publicize the three-week-old … Read more

Apple’s patent victory over HTC’s Android phones isn’t winning it many friends, especially not from Google. Former Google CEO (and current executive chairman) Eric Schmidt lambasted Apple for responding to Android’s success with legal attacks, the Australian newspaper Perth Now … Read more

Google didn’t build its new Plus service simply to have an online hangout like Facebook. Rather, Google’s new social-networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights into people’s lives and relationships. This could help the company do a better … Read more

Slowly but surely, NFC (the tech that’ll let us ditch our wallets in favor of paying for things with a Jedi-wave of our phones) is picking up steam. After years of floundering around in the US, NFC took a major … Read more

After the announcement, Miner answered the question on everyone’s mind: Where’s the Android fund? Kleiner Perkins has its Apple-focused iFund, but neither Google nor venture firms have anything similar for Android startups. “I think the time has gone by,” said … Read more

Many Google+ users saw a massive amount of notification email messages from the service this afternoon, and now Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, has an explanation. “For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service … Read more