Google Chrome

Google: Chrome Browser has 120M active users

The browser's adoption growth is exceeding all other browsers.

We're following Google Chrome event live at YouTube.  Starting things off, Sundar Pichai, VP, Product Management at Google is giving us market share numbers.  Google (GOOG) announced 70 million users at Google I/O in May.  Today they are almost double that, at 120 million active users (which they say is conservative).  That comes out to 300% growth since January of this year.

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HTML5: not ready for primetime, but getting very close

Companies and developers say it's the future. A look at why the HTML5 hype machine is in overdrive and whether it's warranted.

Given how tech giants like Apple, Google and even Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) have wholeheartedly embraced HTML5 and dubbed it the future of the web, it's no surprise the hype behind the quickly-emerging web specification has reached a fevered pitch. And the hubbub will get even louder now, with the just-launched MORE

Google's Chrome-plated strategy

By Michal Lev-Ram

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - If Google's new Chrome Web browser succeeds, going online will be an all-Google experience.

"The Web has evolved pretty dramatically, but the underlying browser architecture is still very similar to the original Netscape browser," Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, said at a press conference Tuesday at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters.

Google (GOOG) says Chrome was designed to be "streamlined and simple." The MORE