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Marissa Mayer Resigned From Google Just 30 Minutes Before Joining Yahoo!

37 year old Marissa Mayer (Full name Marissa Ann Mayer) joined Google in 1999 as a 20th employee, shortly after achieving a Master degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. She was the company’s first female engineer. After working with Google 13 years, Mayer was appointed as a President and CEO of Yahoo! on July 16, 2012. The interesting news is, she revealed the news to her Google colleagues just 30 minutes before the Yahoo board announced the news publicly.

Google Acquires Nik Software, Set To Compete Instagram

Instagram has been the major player in the photo-editing arena for quite some time now. And ever since Facebook acquired it, the social network has also geared up to enter the mobile photo-editing space by dishing out its own Facebook Camera app. It may seem that Google is also eyeing this niche now, with its acquisition of a prominent company which excels in photo editing software.

Google Apps To Stop Support For IE 8

Google has announced to stop Google Apps support for Internet Explorer 8. That means, people using IE 8 or older version of IE, will need to update their browsers to use all features of Google Apps without any compatibility issue.

Google Playing Evil With Acer Over Android

Taiwanese manufacturer of phones and PCs, Acer, planned to hold a joint press conference with China-based Alibaba Group in Shanghai on September 13, Thursday to debut CloudMobile A800, a smartphone which runs on Aliyun operating system developed by Alibaba. But the press conference was canceled before it started. Why the press conference cancelled? To answer the question Alibaba replied that Google threatened to pull its Android support from Acer if Acer pursued Alibaba’s Aliyun operating system. Interesting thing is Acer did not confirm the claim.

Google Surprised Over Patent About Round Corners

Apple has been able to secure a major victory against Samsung in a recent case where the jury has ruled that Samsung must pay Apple $1 billion in damages. The jury found Samsung to have infringed Apple’s design patents, which also include rounded corners. Google seems to be baffled over this.

Google Released Its Own YouTube Apps For iOS

Apple slashed the native YouTube app for iOS devices with its upcoming iOS 6. Since then, Google has been trying to present a viable solution to put YouTube back in iOS devices. Now, just ahead of the iPhone 5 launch event(probably iOS 6 release event too), Google has unveiled a new YouTube app which is available in Apple’s App Store.

[Tutorial] How To Enable Google Desktop Notifications

Thanks to Google Chrome Web browser, you can make customizations in order to receive notifications directly on the Windows desktop when you receive a new message in Gmail, scheduled appointment in Google Calendar or when someone wants to talk with you on Google Chat. Of course in order to verify that you have new messages in Gmail or in Google Calendar, you must visit the Gmail or Google Calendar web site and keep it opened in your Google Chrome browser tab. In this tutorial I will show you which customizations you need to make in order to make all this work.