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Market Wrap For January 27: China Concerns, Declining Home Sales, Tomorrow's Fed Meeting and Obama's Speech Keep Markets Lower
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 5:48pm | 2489U.S. stocks picked up where they left off on Friday and declined today as investors have plenty on their mind. With earnings being a mixed bag, investors are looking at emerging markets and economic data to support a bullish case for equities. On the emerging market front, investors remain...
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8 Ways to Build A Company That Google Will Acquire
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 3:53pm | 95Everyone is looking for the big exit. Entrepreneurs, investors, company employees with stock options -- they all want the same thing. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has provided some very big exits for a number of startups, including YouTube, Waze and Nest Labs. The search engine giant could provide an...
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Top Trending Tickers On StockTwits For January 21
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 11:44am | 702Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Google Hyundai Motor is set to reveal that its second-generation Blue Link system will debut in its upscale Genesis model. Blue Link will include Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) search capabilities in its navigation system and a Google Glass...
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Infinity AR CEO: Google Glass Will Rule Augmented Reality Market At Launch
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 5:14pm | 739Infinity Augmented Reality (OTC: ALSO) Chief Executive Enon Landenberg thinks that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will rule the AR market when it is released next year. "I'm quite sure Google Glass will have most of the market because it's Google," Landenberg told Benzinga. "On the other hand, Meta Glasses...
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Why Google Wants To Plant a Microchip In Your Head
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 11:44am | 512It’s all about making the act of conducting a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) search easier. The idea of implanting a microchip in the brains of users, according to Google’s engineering director, Scott Huffman, who spoke to The Independent on Monday, revolves around the notion that thinking about words...
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Gene Munster Raises Google Price Target, Sees 15 percent Upside
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 5:08pm | 255Gene Munster, Senior Research Analyst at Piper Jaffray issued an analyst report on December 10. In the report, the analyst increased the price target on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to a Street high of $1,263. The price target represents an approximate 15 percent upside from the December 10 opening...
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Sebastian Thrun Disrupts Higher Education With Udacity
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 - 1:47pm | 578Sebastian Thrun, Udacity co-founder and Google VP and Fellow, co-developer of Google Street View and the infamous self-driving car, recently gave up his role as a tenured Stamford professor in order to integrate online education into standard practice. He talked about the experience and new...
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Google in Talks to Create Prescription Lenses, Designs for Google Glass
Friday, November 22, 2013 - 4:00pm | 279Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) highly-anticipated Goolge Glass will be available to individual's whose eyesight's might not be 20/20 vision. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the search engine is in talks with VSP Global, a nationwide vision benefits provider that also makes frames and...
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Are Google's Barges the World's Largest Technology Kiosks?
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 5:12pm | 590After launching balloons 12 miles above the Earth's atmosphere, many thought that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) could -- or would -- do anything. That mindset also led to mass speculation that the company's mysterious barges, currently located off San Francisco and Portland, Maine, would serve as...
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Rumor: Google Smartwatch Merely A Few Months Away
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 12:08pm | 566Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) much-anticipated smartwatch is about to go into mass production, following some last minute tinkering with features and battery life, according to The Wall Street Journal. The new wearable computing device, which the newspaper said would be available within “months,”...
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Will Google Glass Be Dethroned Ahead Of Its Release? (GOOG)
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 2:45pm | 750Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gained some attention this week after reports claimed that the company will launch a separate app store for Google Glass. Two weeks ago Google acquired key patents from Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (OTC: HNHPF), the parent company of Foxconn, the world's largest assembler....
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Can Google Sell Expensive, High-Tech Glasses Without A Store Presence?
Sunday, August 25, 2013 - 8:05pm | 658Last fall, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) conducted an interesting experiment. Instead of launching Surface RT (the company's first tablet) at tech outlets across the country, Microsoft decided to sell the device exclusively online. This sales plan may have been designed to create a distinct style and...
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SLIDESHOW: Apple's Groundbreaking Patent, Ballmer's Retirement And More From The Fourth Week Of August
Saturday, August 24, 2013 - 1:35pm | 260Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has taken an interest in developing a system to control virtual objects. After Apple filed a patent for what could be the company's answer to Kinect (the Microsoft-developed (NASDAQ: MSFT) motion-based control system for Xbox), investors began to wonder what Apple might do...
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Google Acquires Foxconn Patents To Enhance Google Glass (GOOG)
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 4:08pm | 473Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has purchased an unspecified number of patents from the world's largest assembler of electronic devices. According to the Financial Times, Google acquired the patents -- which relate to head-mounted displays that can superimpose virtual images onto real environments -- from...
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Google Glass To Invade Best Buy, Take Up Store Space In 2014 (BBY, GOOG)
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 2:56pm | 473First Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) set up shop at Best Buy (NYSE: BBY). This summer, Samsung (OTC: SSNLF) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) came to the retailer, which is slowly becoming a mini-mall for tech companies. Now Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants a piece of the action. According to a Google+ post by tech...