Google goes viral with new Chrome videos

Google proves that it can dish it out as well as host viral videos with two new catchy spots for its Chrome Browser.

Today the search giant released two more videos to promote its Chrome browser, and by extension, its upcoming ChromeOS:

The fist video

These aren't the first videos that Google have used to promote their web browser. They've got a Youtube channel.

Google Chome surpassed Apple's (AAPL) Safari to become the MORE

How high can AAPL go?

Analysts scramble to raise their price targets after Tuesday's record Q2 earnings report

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and after failing to predict Apple's (AAPL) performance in the quarter than ended March 27, all of Wall Street seemed to be looking at the company with new and more appreciative eyes.

More than two dozen analysts raised their price targets for Apple overnight, from as low as $240 to as high as $350.

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f8 conference: Scribd's bet on the Facebook effect

The YouTube of publishing shows off its Social Plugins

Scribd CEO Trip Adler is betting on the Facebook effect. His document-sharing startup is one of its launch partners for the company's new Social Plugins, a group of features that will help web publishers take advantage of Facebook's social graph to bring more users to their sites and keep them around longer.

Often dubbed the YouTube of publishing, Scribd lets users self-publish text MORE

Google buys Agnilux, eyeing processors

Acquiring the stealth semiconductor firm signals that Google is moving into processor development.  But did they buy Agnilux just to build chips for their own servers?

Agnilux logo, via agnilux.com

Agnilux was founded by members of the PA Semi (originally "Palo Alto Semiconductor") company that was purchased by Apple for $278 million in April 2008.  After the purchase, many of the top employees were reportedly upset at the pricing of the MORE

My volcanic odyssey

How an 'exile' stranded in England after the Icelandic eruption finally found his way home.

I'm no classicist, but I believe the first road warrior to heroically endure hardships to make it home from a frustratingly long business trip was Odysseus. Stranded in London since Saturday, I can hardly claim his deprivations, however. I've been put up in grand style at my sister's flat in a posh neighborhood of London, had MORE

Apple's Chinese iPhone sales explode

Unit sales increase 9 fold from last year. Total revenue from greater China: $1.3 billion

Analysts scratching their heads about how they could have so badly underestimated Apple's (AAPL) iPhones sales -- and as a result, its revenue and earnings -- in the quarter that ended March 27 need look no further than the Chinese market for iPhones.

The 8.752 million iPhones Apple sold in Q2 2010 beat Wall Street's estimates by MORE

Facebook vs. Google: Game On

Facebook's new features are positioning it to organize the Web. Can it best Google?

Can Facebook out-Google Google? The competition is mounting between the Web's two largest destinations as Facebook unleashes a string of new features. Set to debut at Facebook's April 21 developers conference, they may lay the groundwork for reorganizing the Internet according to the relationships between people instead of pages—with massive implications for both search and advertising.

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The ultimate personal technology

Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins wants to turn pacemakers, stents, and defibrillators into tiny mobile devices.

Bill Hawkins in Los Angeles, home of Medtronic's diabetes operations

Rave all you want about your favorite iPad apps or your new featherweight netbook with a customized cover. The ultimate personal technologies are the pacemakers, insulin pumps, and neurostimulators made by Medtronic -- and, says CEO Bill Hawkins, those devices are every bit as sophisticated MORE

Apple's blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it. The Street blew it.

Once again, the armchair analysts humiliate Wall Street's professionals

There's almost nothing good to say about the estimates published by professional analysts in advance of Apple's (AAPL) second quarter earnings. Not only did the pros badly underestimate almost every aspect of the company's business -- from revenue and earnings to unit sales -- but they were bested in every category by a rag-tag group of bloggers, day traders and armchair analysts.

The MORE

Apple blow-out: Profits up 89.5%

iPhone sales climb 131% year over year. Shares rocket over 17 points in after-hours trading

Click to enlarge. Source: Company reports

Apple (AAPL) blew past even the most optimistic estimates Tuesday, reporting second-quarter earnings of $3.33 per share on $13.50 billion revenue.

Its net quarterly profit was $3.07 billion, up nearly 90% from the same quarter last year.

Wall Street was anticipating earnings of $2.45 per share on revenue of $12.04 MORE