Clever Wherever is a web app that geo-locates someone and warns them about dangers nearby using Department of Transport accident data, police crime data and Google places general data.
He found Facebook obtained browsing data from 331 sites, and Google obtained data from 250 sites, some of it from its Buzz widget.
At what point would it ever make sense for Apple to admit to specializing in hardware (and user experience) and cede back some territory to Google on data and software?
And it likened plans to share data from Facebook and Instagram to Google's decision to unify data across its services.
Owning or creating easy access to social networking data enables Apple and Google to connect location with other data about you.
One project expected to get less support is Google Health, which lets people store medical records and other health data on Google's servers, said people familiar with the matter.
Street View is accessed via the search box now, and there's a toggle on the right side that overlays Google Earth data and (impressively) shows it from varying degrees of tilt.
At the event, Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint introduced Google Wallet and invited additional issuing banks, payment networks, mobile carriers, handset manufacturers, point of sale systems companies and merchants to join the initiative.
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Every update uses Google Analytics and other data to take away the converting search phrases and hand those specifically over to big brands.
To vet out our theories, we looked at trends in keywords renters use to search for apartments using data from Google (GOOG) and our own internal data.
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One of uses best known to the general public will be on their phones and computers through Google, which incorporates Landsat data into its Earth and Maps applications.
The deal puts the company in direct competition with Fusion-io and others that target Big Data customers like Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon.
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After all, Google has been solving the problem of creating accurate mapping data for much longer and Google Maps is a far better service.
This ideas-and-data approach lets Google use fewer managers--one for every 20 line employees, compared with one for as few as 7 industrywide.
And for Google, the most data-driven company in the world, having newspapers articles in its search system is no more than small cool stuff.
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The billions of dollars Google and Facebook invest in data centers and backbone infrastructure shape the physical characteristics of the Internet while the alliances they forge and the battles they choose to fight determine its political constitution.
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It means that as carriers try to profit from consumer usage, they may discourage customers using iPhone and Android powered phones from increasing video, picture and Web data downloads in the exponential fashion that Apple and Google investors are accustomed to seeing.
Open up the doors of government satellite data and you get Google Earth.
Facebook and Google are starting to leverage the data from social connections and activity to target ads more effectively, despite ongoing privacy concerns about both companies.
Now makes use of the data that Google and your phone can gather about your daily life and uses it to serve up useful information, spontaneously, in a stream of cards that is accessed by tapping the search field, or swiping the open button up.
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He said the process will be expensive, time-consuming and involve terrabytes of data as regulators try to determine whether Google is providing efficiency and ease of use to consumers or hurting competition by serving up biased search results.
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Search expert John Battelle said in his blog post that social search would mean little until Facebook and Google settled their differences and offered consumers what they really wanted - Facebook data integrated with Google's search.
For one, it will make it easier to vary bids by device, its location, and time of day, all of which Google knows from GPS, device signatures, and other data.
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What this means for advertisers and brands is that Facebook and Google have the opportunity to deliver even more precise data on your target audience because they can measure influence and engagement.
Business are also key players in data privacy, and while big names like Google and Twitter have large legal and security teams, smaller companies that also have access to personal data might not.
Navigenics, Iceland's DeCode Genetics and 23andMe, whose investors include Google and Genentech, use DNA chips to give people preliminary data on their risk of a variety of diseases.
The FTC said Google promised it had not and would not use the payload data -- though unlike the case in Britain, Google did not promise to delete the information.
If I want a place to store and share data, I turn to Google.
Other apps, for example Layar and Google Goggles, combine visual images with data gleaned from web browsers and other software.
There is definitely a need to regulate private companies like Facebook and Google whose appetite for our most intimate data appears insatiable.
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