"Google" articles

Google updated its terms of service informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails may be analyzed by software to deliver targeted ads.  Google says, "Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising , and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored." The initial reaction...

Today marks the day, and the only day, that Google sells its much hyped and controversial Google Glass to the public. After almost a year of invitation-only trials by a few thousands tech junkies (I am still sour on the fact that Google has not sent me a pair even I consider myself a “junkie”), the public finally has a chance to test themselves. No one knows what the market response will be like, but we will know pretty quickly if the stock will be sold out quickly, or otherwise....

Companies are waging platform wars on a variety of fronts: digital media and apps, social networking and messaging, commerce and advertising, payment and artificial intelligence. Each player is fighting hard because it knows each new product and feature, each device iteration and software upgrade, along with related content and service updates, are critical to the end user's experience. The richer the experience, the higher the value a company can earn from its loyalists. But how...

This is an insane amount of money to spend on a start up. My estimate is that $3.2B is more than 20X earnings. So why does Google think that is worth $3.2B? Nest has reported 100% growth in both 2012 and 2013. In order to sustain that growth, they must have a great product roadmap. It is likely that they will introduce products in other categories that will bring technology to stale products in the same way that they have reinvented the thermostat and smoke detector. Nest has been...

Parks Associates is currently offering the special research "Google Chromecast Owners" free of charge with the purchase of a Market Focus. Market Focus research features findings and analysis based on Parks Associates' ongoing consumer surveys. Each Market Focus covers a key topic or emerging trend within Parks Associates' areas of coverage, which encompass all aspects of the connected home, digital media distribution, and mobile consumer. For the full list of...

Google has unveiled its new Chromecast device and Google Cast SDK. The $35 Chromecast device allows users to stream their Chrome tabs and videos to their TVs from virtually every popular platform.  Google Cast SDK is created for developers on iOS, Android, and Chrome.  It will allows these developers to enable their apps to stream right to their users TVs.  The SDK, Google says, will enable interactions between devices and TV. Developers don’t have to...