Facebook Gives Its Ads a Boost, Using Your Photos

The world’s biggest photo-sharing service decides to make some money from all that sharing. Good timing!

Movl Wants to Take “Kontrol” of Your TV (With a Little Help From Mark Cuban)

What TV-app start-up Movl plans to do with its fresh round of funding.
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Google Developing Home Entertainment System

Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company’s own brand, according to people briefed on the company’s plans.

Four Trends to Trickle Down the Mountains From This Year’s Summit Series Basecamp 2012

Looking back on a memorable Summit, here are four trends buzzed about in Tahoe.

Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service

Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

End of an Era: Google’s Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein — Technically, No. 3 — Leaving

Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).
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Who’s Ready for the (Heaven Forbid) Social Networking Patent Wars?

Just in case patent wars happen to be contagious, it seems worth evaluating which social networking players are best-equipped.
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An iPhoto Slide Show on CD

Walt answers a reader’s question on how to burn an iPhoto slide show onto a CD.

Google: That 2.25 Percent MoMo Patent Royalty Sounds About Right to Us

Motorola Mobility’s demand that Apple pay it patent royalties of 2.25 percent on sales of some iPhones and iPads raised a lot of eyebrows. But not at Google.
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Justice Department Poised to Clear Google-Motorola Deal

The U.S. Justice Department is poised to clear Google Inc.’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, giving Google a powerful armory of technology patents to deploy in the smartphone wars.

Groupon Reports Quarterly Loss, But Beats Revenue Expectations in Its First Earnings Release

Groupon’s revenue surged 194 percent year over year to $506.5 million to beat analysts expectations; however, the company did not cut back expenses enough to turn a profit.
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A Super Social Bowl