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Worldwide smartphone sales soared 96% in the last year, with the iPhone and Google Android-based handsets both leapfrogging BlackBerry in the popularity stakes, according to Gartner.
11 November 2010
Bank of America and Citi are the latest financial services giants to consider letting their staff use iPhones and Google Android-based handsets as an alternative to BlackBerrys for corporate e-mail.
05 November 2010
Tech giants Apple and Google could be about to go head-to-head in a bidding war for mobile payments start-up Boku, according to the TechCrunch blog.
02 November 2010
Google is tapping its vast database of e-commerce figures to build a price index that will offer an alternative inflation measure to official statistics, according to the Financial Times.
12 October 2010
New research from Google Finance shows a significant shift away from traditional bank marketing materials and brand influence to online sources in the selection of retail financial products by consumers.
13 September 2010
JPMorgan Chase is considering letting staff use iPhones and Google Android-based handsets as an alternative to BlackBerrys for corporate e-mail, according to Bloomberg.
10 September 2010
Google is considering adding PayPal functionality to its Android smartphone software in a bid to make it easier for people to buy applications, according to Bloomberg.
16 August 2010
Google has agreed a deal worth up to $75 million to buy Jambool, the company behind Social Gold, a virtual currency platform used for online games and applications, according to TechCrunch.
10 August 2010
Google has launched a tool designed to enable one-man-band merchants moving from site-to-site to accept payments using its Checkout system and Android mobile phones.
02 July 2010
Google has invested an unspecified amount in mobile payments technology start-up Corduro through its in-house venture arm.
04 May 2010
Nearly 200 credit card transactions shared on social networking site Blippy have been exposed - with full credit card numbers included - in Google search results, according to Mashable.
23 April 2010
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Google has posted job ads for traders and analysts at its Mountain View headquarters, raising speculation on the wilder fringes of the Web that the search engine giant may be looking to start its own hedge fund.
23 March 2010
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