Jan 29th 2014
This Week in Google 234
A Six Pack of Rolexes
Hosted by
Jeff Jarvis,
Leo Laporte
Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, Nexus getting rebranded, Google buys AI startup DeepMind, and more!
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Guests:
Gina Trapani
Hosts:Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani
Guest:Kevin Marks
Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo, Nexus getting rebranded, Google buys AI startup DeepMind, and more!
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Running time: 1:50:25
Links
- Lenovo to buy Motorola business for $2 billion
- Google to sell Motorola to Lenovo, say reports
- Recode says Samsung agrees to make its Android purer
- Google Just Bet $500 Million That AI Can Fix Search
- More on DeepMind: AI Startup to Work Directly With Google's Search Team
- Google paid more than $500M for DeepMind, beating out Facebook; creates ethics board to ensure technology isn't abused
- Lenovo to Acquire Motorola Mobility from Google
- Nexus to be rebranded?
- Google’s Build With Chrome is a Minecraft-like virtual LEGO builder in the browser
- Google’s Latest Search Trick: “As The Crow Flies” Distance Calculation
- Google's Info Cards for Sites
- Glass gets prescription frames
- Gmail And Google+ Go Down Across The World, Service Returns After Roughly 50 Minutes
- Official Google Blog
- Google Calendar bug adds others to your private events without warning
- Protesters show up at the doorstep of Google self-driving car engineer
- Homebrew Website Club tonight
- Model View culture
- 100 seconds: firing 2/3 of Patch staff via a voice mail
- Prince sues 22 (former) fans for $1m each
- For fifth year, Google is best place to work
- Blogs turn 20
- On old Lycos patent, Vringo wins 1.36% of Adwords revenue
- Talon for Twitter