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March 15, 2010

Eight reasons Apple sued HTC and not Google

The speculation around the Web has been that Apple sued HTC to get at Google. By suing its biggest licensee, Apple hopes to hurt Google’s operating system business — at least that’s what people think.

Apple has good reasons to fear Android. In the three months from December to February, Android’s US smartphone subscriber share shot [...]

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November 9, 2009

Google acquires AdMob for $750 million

Google on Monday announced its latest acquisition — the purchase of mobile advertising company, AdMob, for $750 million in stock.

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October 12, 2009

FTC Chairman praises Levinson’s resignation from Google board

FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz feels Arthur Levinson made the right decision leaving Google’s Board of Directors. Leibowitz praised the decision in a statement released on Monday.

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Levinson quits Google’s board, stays with Apple

Genentech Chairman Arthur D. Levinson on Monday announced his resignation from Google’s Board of Directors, choosing instead to remain on Apple’s board.

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October 1, 2009

Apple’s breakup with Google continues

Apple hasn’t been making many friends at Google these days. In fact, it would appear the days of the two companies working closely together may be coming to an end.

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September 18, 2009

Apple responds to Google’s FCC letter

Google on Friday lifted the confidentiality clause on a letter sent to the FCC in late August concerning Apple and the Google Voice iPhone app. What it revealed was that Apple did reject the app.

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Google contradicts Apple, tells FCC iPhone app was rejected

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Google has contradicted Apple’s letter to the FCC, saying that Apple did, in fact, reject its Google Voice app entry into the App Store.

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August 21, 2009

Apple denies rejecting Google Voice from the App Store

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Apple, Google and AT&T on Friday all replied to an FCC letter requesting clarification on why Google Voice was rejected from the App Store. Apple’s answer: We never rejected the app.

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August 20, 2009

Model forces Google to reveal identity of offensive blogger

Canadian born model Liskula Cohen had enough. When a blogger in New York City made derogatory comments about her, she decided to fight back — and she’s winning, so far.

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August 16, 2009

Google’s Gmail passes AOL to capture third-place in Web mail

Almost everyone I know uses Gmail, but it’s not the number one Web mail platform — in fact, it just passed AOL to take the third spot in the U.S. market.

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August 3, 2009

Google’s Eric Schmidt quits Apple’s Board

Apple on Monday announced that one of its Board of Directors, Eric Schmidt has resigned.

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July 30, 2009

Microsoft, Yahoo deal: Dumb and Dumber

Microsoft and Yahoo inked a deal on Wednesday that will see the two companies team-up to take on search giant, Google. I see this as a clear win for Google.

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July 10, 2009

Google’s Chrome OS “a textbook example of vaporware”

Google on Wednesday announced Chrome OS, a netbook optimized operating system that will be released sometime next year. However you view the news, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber brings up a good point in his latest article: where is it?

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July 8, 2009

Welcome to the OS wars Google, and good luck

By now you’ve probably read on Ars that Google is entering the operating system market, joining the big three: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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