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Apple profit doubles from holiday sales

Apple made some serious bank over the holidays. Apple announced on Tuesday that it brought in revenues of $46.33 billion (

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Google merges privacy settings

Google has announced changes to its privacy policies that from 1 March will move users to one single, consolidated policy. “Despite trimming our policies in 2010, we still have more than 70 privacy documents covering all of our different products,” Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering Alma Whitten wrote on the Google blog . “This approach is somewhat complicated. It’s also at odds with our efforts to integrate our different products more closely so that we can create a beautifully simple, intuitive user experience across Google .” Most of Google’s products and services will be included in the new privacy policy – Google Books, Google Wallet and Google Chrome will all retain their own policies. As a result, the new policy grants Google explicit rights to combine users’ personal information across the majority of Google’s products and services. “Our new privacy policy makes it clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all products,” Whitten wrote. For users, the new privacy policy means that when signed in, user data will be shared between services – for example, between Gmail, YouTube, Google+ and Google Maps – resulting in more refined search results and relevant ads. “We can provide reminders that you’re going to be late for a meeting based on your location, your calendar and an understanding of what the traffic is like that day,” Whitten said.

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Google demotes itself after paid-blog fuss

Google has fallen on the proverbial sword – demoting itself in search rankings after a Chrome ad campaign violated the company’s own policies. Google has found itself in hot water following the revelation that a Google Chrome ad campaign did exactly what the company has specifically banned in the past – paying bloggers for links to pad out search results. To add insult to injury, the posts were of such low quality that they embodied the kind of “thin” content that Google has been working to eliminate from its search results. So, to make amends it appears the search giant will be turning to a little self-flagellation of the corporate kind. “We’ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com / chrome and lower the site’s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days,” the company said in a statement from Mountain View. “We strive to enforce Google’s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users..

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Google Chromezone opens in London

Google has opened its first retail store inside PC World on London’s Tottenham Court Road, hot on the heels of news that its popular browser has increased its market share. The 285-square-foot pop-up promotes Google’s Chromebook – a laptop made by Samsung and Acer optimised for web use – and has trained staff on hand to help people become more familiar with the cloud-based netbook. This is the first time Google has ever broached this traditional method of retail. Google said in a statement: “The Chrome Zone is designed to be as open, colourful and user-friendly as possible, and there are seating areas for shoppers to enable them to try out Chromebooks in comfort.” However, unlike the shops of its rival Apple, the store opened to relatively little fanfare. Arvind Desikan – head of consumer marketing at Google UK – told the Evening Standard : “It is our first foray into physical retail. This is a new channel for us and it’s still very, very early days. It’s something Google is going to play with and see where it leads.” “We found anecdotally that when people tried the device and played with it, that made a huge difference to their understanding of what the Chromebook is all about. “People will be able to go in and have a play with the devices. We want to see whether people understand what this device is all about and monitor their reaction when they try it out.” The news comes as Google Chrome – the browser optimised in the Chromebook and promoted in Chromezone – increased its market share to above 20 per cent, on track to surpass No 2 browser Firefox in early 2012, according to ZDNet

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Chrome Exceeds 20 Percent Globally in June

Watch out Firefox and IE, Chrome’s gaining users. For the first time since its launch in 2008, Google Chrome exceeded 20 percent of the worldwide internet browser market in June 2011, according to StatCounter Global Stats.

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Google Warns Webmasters About Bad Links Pointing to Websites

Since January, Google has notified webmasters via email whenever it discovers and penalizes a website with bad links pointing outwards, or for selling links. Now, the search giant is informing webmasters of the opposite: when it detects links pointing to a site, or for purchasing links.

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Google Gaining Marketing Share with Smartphones, Browsers

Google is gaining ground in both the smartphone and browser worlds, according to reports mentioned in a Search Engine Land report this week. The site cited Nielsen numbers from November which show that Google Android is poised to overtake Apple’s iPhone as the leading smartphone operating system. Meanwhile, December numbers from Net Applications show strong growth of the Google Chrome operating system versus industry leaders Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

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Google Chrome Now Offers Extensions and Bookmark Sync

Google yesterday announced a new stable version of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two popular features: extensions and bookmark sync.

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Chrome Replaces Firefox as Default Browser in Google Pack

Just three months after its initial release, Google Chrome has emerged from beta testing and has replaced Mozilla Firefox as the default browser in the Google Pack.

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