Google drops Chromebooks down to $99 or less (for education)

Forget Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Google just announced perhaps the best sale of the entire Christmas season, at least as far as electronics and computers are concerned.

Google makes $10 billion in revenues in Bermuda? Well, kinda …

Google's not just smart about search, mobile operating systems, and online advertising. The company is also very smart keeping the money it earns via clever tax avoidance schemes.

Google Play integrated with Bango’s carrier billing: buy apps, pay on your phone bill

Mobile payment company Bango has integrated Google Play billing with carrier billing, announcing Australian carrier Telestra as its first client.

Tablet gift guide: With the iPad Mini and Nexus 7, it’s tough to go wrong this year

If you're looking for something special to give this year, can we recommend a tablet? Here are our picks for the best of the best.

Twitter rushes to release photo filters before holidays — in response to Instagram threat

Twitter is reportedly aiming to release photo filters to be used inside its official Twitter app in time for the holiday season.

AllThingsD reported the news, citing sources familiar with the matter.

The move comes right after Twitter’s fast-growing competitor …

Google Now, Google’s effort to automate your life, soon to be released on Chrome

Google Now, the search engine giant’s handy Android smartphone feature that helps automate your life by giving you an easy peek at things like traffic conditions, weather reports, trip departure reminders, and restaurant dish recommendations, is apparently now coming to …

Finally: Apple and Google said to bid $500M for Kodak imaging patents

Apple and Google have joined forces to offer more than $500 million for some of the 1,100 digital imaging patents from Eastman Kodak, according to Bloomberg, citing “two people with knowledge of the situation.”

If the report is accurate, the …

Groupon shares surge 23% on absurd rumor that Google wants to buy it

Groupon’s shares soared about 23 percent today on a sketchy rumor that Google was interested in buying it, according to a report.

Google VP David Lawee said to head new Google-backed late-stage venture group

Google corporate development VP David Lawee will soon move from leading Google’s mergers and acquisitions over to leading a new Google-backed late-stage venture group, according to a report.

Google quietly deletes free version of Google Apps for Business

Google said today that only the premium version of its Apps for Business would be available from now on, for $50 per user per year.

YouTube rolls out new design focused on subscriptions & channels

YouTube is rolling out a brand new look on its website that emphasizes its growing channel-based ecosystem of content creators.

3 Gmail Labs graduates land in your inbox to save you precious seconds

Google has graduated three time-saving experimental Gmail features, kicking them out of the protected confines of Labs and into your inbox.

Move over, in-flight movies: YouTube content coming to Virgin America flights

YouTube has reached a new agreement with commercial airline Virgin America that will bring web video content to passengers during flights, the site announced today.

Google courts photographers with Snapseed for Android release

Google today released an Android version of the sophisticated photo-editing application Snapseed, a product it picked up in its acquisition of photography software developer Nik Software. The company also updated the Snapsneed app for iOS to make it free.

Snapseed’s …

With Google+ Communities, Google launches its own version of Facebook Groups

Google has rolled out a brand new feature for its Google+ social network today, which brings the ability to form groups based around a specific interest, organization, or passion.

Google+ numbers revealed: 500M upgraded, 235M active across Google sites, 135M on stream

Along with announcing a new Communities feature for Google+ today, Google also finally gave us some updated stats on Google+.

Google Now gets boarding passes, starts acting more like Apple’s Passbook

Google has taken inspiration from Apple's Passbook to give its Android customers a more instantaneous way to pull up their boarding passes with Google Now.

Eric Schmidt finds it odd Apple hasn’t sued Google yet

Eric Schmidt seems perplexed by some of Apple's recent decisions, like the recent patent lawsuits against Android partners, and Apple's sudden removal of Google's YouTube app from iOS devices.

YouTube finally updates iOS app with iPad, iPhone 5, and better AirPlay support

Google has released a major update of its iOS YouTube app, and it now supports the iPad and the iPhone 5′s longer display.

Apple app store having issues: Can’t update apps, can’t download new Gmail for iPhone

Apple's app store appears to be having some technical challenges today. Perhaps it's the massive influx of people downloading Google's new Gmail app.

Gmail 2.0: Google updates Gmail for iPhone after a six-month development project

Six months ago, Google says, it started working on a new Gmail app for iPhone and iPad. That's a long time, but Gmail fans who can't part with their gorgeous Apple hardware will probably think it's worth the wait.

Google gives $23M to seven nonprofit innovators with ‘Global Impact Awards’

Google is no stranger to philanthropy, but that's not stopping the company from doing more.

Nielsen’s state of social 2012 report: more social, more mobile, more minutes, more TV, and more ads

There's more of just about everything in Nielsens' 2012 state of the social union report ... all except the poor old PC.

Comscore: Apple tops LG as No. 2 U.S. mobile phone maker

iPhone 5, plus market share losses from Android makers, pushes Apple to the No. 2 spot.

Google’s acquisition of BufferBox could mean never waiting for the delivery man again

Google purchased BufferBox, a startup that makes e-commerce delivery more convenient by setting up locals lockers for parcel pick-up.

Apple vs. App Annie: the definitive story on 2012 iOS app store revenue growth

You know the old story about statistics and liars, right? Statistics lie, and liars use statistics, or so the old saw says. There's a good reason for that: statistics are so damn easy to lie with. Even when you don't mean to.

Apple disputes App Annie report: the app store did NOT grow just 13% this year — it grew over 200%

This morning App Annie released a new global index report on app store revenues, which included statements like "iOS revenue contracted 0.7 percent" and "iOS revenue growth has been modest this year at just 12.9 percent." Apple contacted me this afternoon to call bullshit on those numbers.

Google exec talks Amazon cloud price war: ‘We are happy to compete’

Amit Singh, president of enterprise at Google, is ready to fight. Amazon and Google traded blows this week, each lowering their cloud services prices in response to the other.

Apple’s app store revenue is 4X Google Play’s … but Google Play is growing 24X faster

Apple's App Store is still the king of mobile apps stores, with the four times the revenue of Google Play, but Google Play is growing much, much faster than the App Store.

YouTube adds more automatically translated language captions to videos

YouTube rolled out a update to its captions feature today that allows you to automatically translate video captions, meaning you're no longer restricted to watching content produced specifically for your primary language.

Massive Google Webmaster Tools security breach reported

Google Webmaster Tools, the Google site that helps website owners manage how their site appears in Google, diagnose problems, and optimize traffic, is currently experiencing a major security breach.

Google’s scary powerful Spanner database gets us one step closer to Skynet

Google’s Spanner is a single database that runs across hundreds of data centers throughout the world. It makes me want to climb into an underground bunker.

It’s a cloud-off! To compete with Amazon, Google Compute Engine slashes prices

Google Compute Engine has added 36 server instances to its cloud catalog, and cut prices by 5 percent in a bid to compete with Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of cloud services in the world.