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Google’s News Reader — Now Called Currents — Finally Coming

in Media on December 8, 2011 at 8:53 am PT

I was wrong about the rollout timing — I had reported mid-November (sorry, Sean!) — but Google’s entrant into the news reader space is finally set to launch as soon as tomorrow. Sources said the product, which was codenamed Propeller and will compete with a spate of competitors such as Flipboard and Yahoo’s Livestand, is now called Currents (I had gotten that one right!). As in current events. Get it?

Google’s Schmidt Speaks Up About Twitter

in News on March 3, 2009 at 6:30 pm PT

For those wondering what Eric Schmidt thinks of Twitter, the Google chief executive made his views clear on Tuesday. It’s “a poor man’s email system,” said Schmidt at an investor conference in San Francisco.