You can check all the debut deals for the new cities here and sign for the service over at www.google.com/offers.

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It is very rare to see Google advertising any of their products on TV. However, they have decided that this is a necessary tool when trying to promote their Google+ social network.

For Google+ Google is trying to push the motto: “Sharing, but like real life. That’s a plus.”

• Larry Pages Doesnt Even Use Google Plus – September 19, 2011
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More than 2.5 million Muslims travel to the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj on November 5, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Google has decided to allow people to watch the pilgrimage live on YouTube.

The stream will be live on Saturday, November 5 at http://www.youtube.com/hajjlive.

The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; each muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage once in their lifetime. It will be interesting to see if they do the same for the other 5.

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Forbes has just released their annual “Richest People in America” list. First of all 8 of the top 20 are related to the internet and computer industries!

However, the main news this year is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is up from 35th previous year to 14th this year. Zuckerberg is worth $17.5 billion and is now above Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Very impressive for a punked up kid from the valley.

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Gamestop seem to be a company jumping all over the place at the moment. Gamestop has noticed that no one seems to be buying games from your basic game shops, thus they are trying to find other revenue streams. Last week it was leaked that they are working on a Steam competitor and now it has been announced they are working on their own Android gaming tablet! Really.. a Gamestop gaming tablet! No one is going buy that surely.

via CNET

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Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:janousek.jiri/google-music-frame-releases

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install google-music-frame

• Listen to Your Music on the Google Music Player – August 9, 2011
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I just came across an amazing Google Plus Icon Set that is available for free. The Google Plus Icons has 13 different social icons. Each icon of G+ from this set is available in different px size

Source PSD files are grouped and layered, so you can easily copy/paste icon design elements and create custom icons.

Download the Google Plus Icon Set here.

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• Breaking: Google Acquires Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion – August 15, 2011
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Larry Page CEO of Google had this to say of the acquisition:

“Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”

Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president of mobile, said in a statement that the Android platform will remain open:

“Our vision for Android is unchanged, and Google remains firmly committed to Android as an open platform and a vibrant open source community. We will continue to work with all of our valued Android partners to develop and distribute innovative Android-powered devices.”

Im very surprised they didnt look at acquiring HTC.

Motorola is a great business and has over $3 billion in the bank. They also have 19,000 employees and produce set top boxes and phone accessories. It will be interesting to see how they can put both businesses together.

• Android Debuts on AT&T with Motorola Backflip – January 13, 2010
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Most people already know a lot about the upcoming iPhone 5, but there is limited information about the Google Nexus 3.

The Google Nexus 3 isnt expected to be your average Android handset. The Nexus 3 will feature Android 4 software, which is expected to show off an all new user interface for the operating system. It will be very interesting to see if Google can actually ramp of sales of their own handsets, because up until now they have been unable to compete!

• Ex-Engadget Editor Josh Topolsky and PC Mag’s Lance Ulanoff Discuss iOS vs Android – April 7, 2011
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The player is a web version of the music service inside an app, you need to first login to your Google Account and then access the Google Music.

For me it seems like Google Music is a complete waste of time. You can simply sign up to Spotify and use their amazing player for your locally hosted music. I know that your music with Google Music is hosted in the cloud, which is great, but its just a very basic service and its only as good as the devices I can get the service on.

Anyways, if you want use Google music then check out the Google Music player (not official version).

• Google+ Song – September 29, 2011
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“We’ve begun to roll out out a set of changes that will make the button render up to 3x faster on your site,” software engineer David Byttow said.

“No action is required on your part, so just sit back, relax, and watch as the button loads more quickly than before.”

This is great news, because the +1 button was loading very slowly compared to other social media buttons, so about time Google sorted it out!

• How to Add Google +1 Button to Your Website – June 6, 2011
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This morning we wrote an article about Wibiya being acquired by Conduit. The article has been quite popular and I wanted to just check how it was being ranked in Google.

As you can see from the above screenshot we seem to be ranking 4th with our original article. This would be quite good, but it seems as though the sites ranking above us are just scraping our content! Google why haven’t you sorted this out yet!!

Someone please explain to me why this is happening. Im not an SEO expert, but I understand Google aren’t providing good quality results.

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Ok. Well it’s not as good as an invite, but it is the best we have found so far. The theme itself is actually not great! The Google+ theme for Chrome is an unofficial version and this is why it looks like it hasnt been finished completely.

Anyways, if you want to check out the theme for yourself, then you can head over to their the download page here.

• Free Grooveshark Google Chrome Theme – March 7, 2011
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As you can see from the image everything has been simplified and pastel-ised from a colour point of view. I’m a big fan of the design as it makes everything a lot more appealing to the eye and draws away from the ugly blue links for every entry.

What do you think?

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As the company explained in its Official Blog on Thursday, these cars are a mixture of Nissan Leafs and Chevy Volts and only available in the USA.

The company now offers more than 200 chargers for electric vehicles at its Mountain View, California, Googleplex campus and plans to add 250 more soon. Google’s goal is to electrify 5% of its parking spaces. The company has about 23,000 employees, and most of them are stationed at the Googleplex.

• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012
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• Hajj Pilgrimage Live to Watch on YouTube for Free – November 4, 2011
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1. The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.

Features;

• Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
• Includes a Google +1 widget
• Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
• Includes 4 different button sizes
• Show/hide Google +1 counts
• Customize position of the button
• Shortcodes and styling for further customization

2. Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.

If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.

• Google Make +1 Button Load Times a lot Faster – July 27, 2011
• Breaking: Google Release New Search Design Worldwide – June 30, 2011
• Goodbye Cuil, We Barely Knew You…Literally – September 20, 2010
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The first Google Offer will be from beloved local java shop Floyd’s Coffee.

You can learn more about Google Offers and sign up at google.com/offers.

• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Hajj Pilgrimage Live to Watch on YouTube for Free – November 4, 2011
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