This Week in Google 239

The Oscar selfie, new Samsung Chromebooks, the ARA phone, and more!

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Links

• Behind the Preplanned Oscar Selfie: Samsung's Ad Strategy
• Liza Minelli missing the selfie
• Twitter's Vivian Schiller re the tweet
• 2 new Samsung chromebooks
• Hands-free Google Voice Search in Chrome
• Google Redesigns Hangouts For iOS for first time since November, Adds Video Messages And Animated Stickers
• Google Hangouts for iOS updated with iOS 7 design, iPad optimization, more
• Google+ for Android updated with plenty of new photography enhancements
• Google Now Launcher now available to Nexus & Google Play edition devices
• Hands-on with ARA phone
• Related: rumor basic ARA will go on sale for $50 next year
• Joshing Matt Cutts over call for scraper sites
• Google invests $1m in getting more female entrepreneurs
• It's official: Google Barge moving to Stockton
• Climate change might mean no guac at Chipotle
• Chipotle Quesarito
• Apple's voracious appetite for acquisitions outspent Google in 2013
• CNN sells Zite to Flipboard
• Forecast.io
• Google invests $50m in real estate auction marketplace
• Rails - Android App
• IndieWebCamp SF
• #fixpatents
• Engine Advocacy