Yahoo! to buy blogging service Tumblr for US$1.1bn – reports
20.05.2013 The board of Yahoo! has reportedly agreed a US$1.1bn all-cash deal to buy the six-year-old social blogging service Tumblr, according to US media reports.
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#io13: Google makes Gmail more useful with task-based buttons and Wallet integration
17.05.2013 We’re unlikely to see any major Google product come out of I/O without some kind of update, and Gmail is no exception, as the email service gets new quick action buttons to help users get things done fast.
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#io13: New interactive Google Maps builds a world around users (video)
16.05.2013 At its developers conference in San Francisco, California, Google unveiled its biggest ever update to Google Maps since it first launched eight years ago, creating a more personalised and interactive experience for users.
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Frank Hornby’s 150th birthday marked on Google’s UK homepage
15.05.2013 Head to Google.co.uk today and you’ll see a Google Doodle made up of toy trains to honour what would have been the 150th birthday of Frank Hornby, the inventor of Hornby Model Railways, Meccano and Dinky Toys.
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Google Image Search gets an Atari Breakout Easter egg
14.05.2013 Classic Atari arcade game Breakout, which turned 37 years old in April, is now playable via Google Image Search thanks to a recently discovered Easter egg.
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New web resource for firms to search R&D funding and advertise jobs
14.05.2013 Ireland's Research and Innovation Minister Sean Sherlock, TD, has launched a new web resource targeted specifically at businesses to help them access information on R&D funding and to advertise jobs for researchers.
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Google celebrates graphic designer Saul Bass with vibrant video doodle
08.05.2013 To mark what would have been the 93rd anniversary of his birth, Google has given US graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass a fitting tribute: an animated video doodle based on his designs for film title sequences, posters and logos.
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CERN scientists launch project to restore world’s first website
30.04.2013 Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) have started a project to restore the first website and to preserve the digital assets that are linked with the birth of the web.
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Google Now is available for the iPhone and iPad
29.04.2013 Google has updated its iPad and iPhone app in the Apple App Store, bringing its Google Now context-driven engine to Apple’s mobile devices.
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Google Street View hits 50 countries – massive update adds 563,270 km of road
25.04.2013 Google has launched the largest update of its Street View service yet, to mark the occasion of reaching 50 countries this week. The major new update sees the search giant add picturesque new 'Trike View' collections and imagery to go with 563,270 km (350,000 miles) of road.