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Google admitting defeat in 'direct to consumer' model phone sales
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why Enterprise Software Sucks
Khoi, who’s consistently one of the best writers on the web, recently took a swipe at enterprise software. Who can blame him? We agree. If you work at a big company and you’ve ever had to do something that should be simple, like file an expense report, make changes to your salary withholdi…
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Shoes and software
Yesterday, during an interview with Andrew Warner at Mixergy, I spoke about my early work experience bagging groceries, selling shoes, pumping gas, etc. There’s nothing particularly unique about these jobs – they are common jobs. But they taught me some important lessons about people, h…
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App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas
Today marks the 1.3.6 release of App Engine for Java and Python. In this release we have made available several exciting new features, relax...
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Google's getting B(l)ing
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google's AdSense Revenue Share
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — A...
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Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Skype brief post-mortem
Start free Teams video calls instantly! Connect, collaborate, and communicate effortlessly. Enjoy features like video calls, chat, file sharing, and more. Perfect for personal use, freelancers, solopreneurs, PTAs, teachers, small businesses and social events. Get started today!
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Rework is now in stores
Alright, the big day is finally here! REWORK is now available in stores. You can order the US version online from the following booksellers: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble Borders Indie Bound 800 CEO READ International versions are either out already or coming so…
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How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer
How do you hire a programmer if you’re not one yourself? Some things to look for… 1. How opinionated are they? Ask them about a juicy programming topic (e.g. Ruby or Python?). The tone and reasoning of the answer will reveal a lot. In our recent podcast on programming, Jeff said, &#…
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Amazon speaks up about WikiLeaks decision
Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
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How little musicians earn online
Recently, the UK government passed The Digital Economy Act which included many, perhaps draconian, measures to combat online music piracy...
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Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy (2006)
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a l...
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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…