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Google Buying Motorola For $12.5 Billion

Google announced early on Monday morning that it will acquire Motorola Mobility Holdings, marking the Mountain View Company’s first major move into ownership rather than mere partnership in the smartphone hardware space and Google will acquire Motorola for approximately $40 per share in cash or around $12.5 billion dollars. Android will remain an open platform with Motorola as one of the licensee, so other Android device manufacturers don’t need to worry about it immediately and one of the main reasons for buying Motorola is to strengthen its patent portfolio, so that it can protect Android from patent wars…………

Google+ Public Posts Found Google Social Search

If you are an early adopter of the Google+ social network, be careful what links you are posting on the service and your Google+ public posts being inserted into social search results. Google has started to intertwine public posts made on Google+ with search results and when a user is signed into any Google service and performs a search, they will see annotations about links shared on Google+ from their friends and connections of friends…………

A Fresh New Look Of New Google Campus @ Silicon Valley

Google signs lease for Sunnyvale offices with space for 2,900 workers and the Sunnyvale campus would mark Google’s largest presence in Silicon Valley outside of Mountain View. Google this year alone has committed to adding at least 1.9 million square feet in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, the equivalent of a major regional shopping mall and is intends to make 2011 its biggest hiring year ever, planning to add 6,000 employees worldwide. Google’s new Sunnyvale lease was previously reported by the Bay Area News Group and Google intends to build a new campus adjacent to its existing headquarters……………

Google+ Gets Games

Google+ officially launches its Games service with a series of established Facebook and mobile developers including Zynga, Playdom, PopCap Games, Kabam, Wooga, Rovio and more. Google+’s initial offering of games spans 16 titles, which include popular casual and social games and Google also says that it intends to keep Google+ games in a separate section from the rest of the network’s social features for allowing users to choose whether they want to see game updates from their circles or to ignore the content altogether……………..

Google+ iOS App Now Available For iPad And iPod Touch

Google has updated its Google+ app for iOS to support the iPad and iPod touch. Although the Google+ interface looks nice, but no iPad interface so pixellated when run in 2x mode on the iPad. It’s usable but noticable worse looking than the same app running on the iPhone.

appMobi Introduce Its XDK HTML5 Dev Tools On The Google Chrome Web Store

appMobi announced the immediate availability in the Google Chrome App Store, it goes by the name of appMobi XDK cross platform app development tool. By making the XDK available on the Chrome App Store, appMobi expects to further its dominance of cross platform HTML5-based app development. The tool is perfect for making applications to run within Google Chrome, but it’s also capable of creating native apps for submission to Apple’s App Store and the Android Market. The hardware integration is accomplished with JavaScript hardware abstraction, which enables access to the camera, GPS, accelerometer. The platform boasts full compatibility with PhoneGap, so easily transition if you’ve got a project in the works. Checkout more bellow in the press release.

Logitech Mini Controller For Logitech Revue And Google TV

Logitech bring Mini Controller for Logitech Revue and Google TV. The logitech mini controller is a thumb-sized, keyboard-based remote that’s the ideal companion for google tv systems, and coffee tables, too. Designed specifically for Google TV systems, including Logitech Revue, this thumb-sized keyboard with dual-mode touch pad and entertainment system remote gives you endless entertainment at your fingertips.

Sony’s NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray Disc Player Plus WiFi-Enabled Featuring Google TV

Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Disc player, powered by Google TV. Search the entire web, TV listings and apps1 to find exactly what you’re looking for. Now access more entertainment than ever. Watch TV, browse the internet2, or do both at the same time on the same screen. Plus, finding your favorite content is a breeze thanks to the included, intuitive handheld keypad with mouse. Now you can watch the game while tracking your fantasy team, tweet about the TV show you’re watching, or update your Facebook status while viewing TV.