The introduction of the Google game also adds a search tool to the Googler's arsenal.
Yesterday, Google (GOOG) introduced "A Google A Day" –a game that produces a question a day and encourages users to solve the puzzle using Google's search engine. I'm not a crossword puzzle type but I imagine some people find this interesting. Obviously, it encourages people to use Google's search engine -which is clearly beneficial to Google both in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 12, 2011 10:38 AM ET
A new survey suggests that Apple sold 7 million iPads in Q2, including 2-3 million iPad 2s
Source: RBC and ChangeWave Research
RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky joined the 7 million club Tuesday.
That's the small but growing group of analysts who believe Apple (AAPL) sold 7 million or more iPads in its second fiscal quarter, which ran from December 26 to March 26.
Two other Wall Street analysts, Jeffries' Peter Misek and Caris' MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 12, 2011 8:43 AM ET
Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, says he won't spend Milk Inc.'s VC money keeping bad products on life support.
FORTUNE -- A month ago, Kevin Rose, the founder and former CEO of Digg, built something creepy. He had been nursing an idea that would test the limits not just of how much we wanted to share online, but also how much we wanted to MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Apr 12, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"It's ridiculous."
-- a Twitter investor on the social network's $7 billion-plus private-market valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
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A U.S. appeals court ruled today that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, must accept the $65 million settlement reached with Facebook in 2008. Wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski: MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 12, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Earlier this morning Microsoft accused Google of false advertising. Google responds.
This morning, David Howard, Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft (MSFT) took the opportunity to look at unsealed documents to point out something, that if true or genuine, would seem to be a pretty big deal.
Last Friday afternoon, I learned that a batch of court documents had been unsealed and had revealed one particularly striking development: the United States MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 11, 2011 5:32 PM ET
Image via CrunchBase
The world's dominant Internet backbone just got a lot more dominant. Should we worry?
Level 3 already runs the single most important part of the Internet. Of the 36,878 autonomous networks that collectively make up the global Internet, Level 3 (LVLT) is by far the largest and most interconnected. Buying Global Crossing (GLBC), which by most measures is now the global Internet's third largest part, in a $3 billion deal will only MORE
Scott Woolley - Apr 11, 2011 5:14 PM ETVenture capitalists are hungrier than ever for next big startup, leading them to make some eye-popping investments -- which, for once, may be entirely justifiable.
Box CEO Aaron Levie. Image via CrunchBase
By Aaron Levie, contributor
FORTUNE -- Having just closed a fourth round of funding, raising $48M from Andreessen Horowitz and other notable investors, I have the dubious distinction of having pitched Box more than a few dozen times on Sand MORE
Apr 11, 2011 2:36 PM ETThere's been a lot of noise recently about how Android is outselling the iPhone, but it's nothing more than a meaningless distraction from reality.
By Andy M. Zaky, contributor
FORTUNE -- It seems that almost every day I'm confronted with yet another insignificant article explaining how Google has surpassed Apple in "platform market share" and that, due to this cataclysmic state of affairs, investors should jump ship as this surely amounts to MORE
Apr 11, 2011 12:19 PM ET
The New/Old Google CEO made some important moves in his first week.
Co-Founder Larry Page took back the helm of Google(GOOG) a week ago and has made some bold moves over the past week. Let's take a look at what has transpired and what's likely to come.
Within 24 hours of taking control, Google announced it was seeking to buy up Nortel patents, which would put it on more equal footing in MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 11, 2011 11:03 AM ET
Bloomberg Businessweek joins Maxim, Elle and Popular Science on the iTunes Store
The iTunes magazine subscription list grew by 33% Monday when Bloomberg L.P. agreed to Steve Jobs' terms and began offering subscriptions to the iPad version of Bloomberg Businessweek on the iTunes store.
That makes four magazine publishers willing to give Cupertino 30% of each subscription sold and take the risk that they will never know who bought it.
In return, the MORE
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