Mountain View, California -- Relentlessly striving to embellish its declining ad business with new strategy, Google Inc., operator of the world's most popular search engine, on Wednesday made colossal changes to its AdWords program, the core product that fuels its search business, that could help advertisers customize their placements on mobile by such factors as type of device, time of day and geographic proximity, ultimately transforming mobile clicks into a bigger cash cow.
San Francisco -- In its unending quest to take on Amazon, Google on Wednesday has snapped up Channel Intelligence, a data service that helps brands and retailers boost e-commerce sales, for $125 million in cash as part of an ongoing effort to improve on the Google Shopping experience. (more…) 
Mountain View, California - Last October, we reported that the Google Maps Street View team are on a new expedition to the Grand Canyon to capture imagery from the beautiful landmark with their new Trekker camera backpacks. As promised, Google continues to astonish with its mapping efforts, has just released the Street View imagery in all of its panoramic glory, more than 9,500 images of the Grand Canyon to its Maps service, the Web giant announced on Thursday.
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New York -- In a surprising move, the Google-owned video-sharing site is reportedly prepping to compete with traditional TV by debuting paid introduce new paid subscription-only channels, according to an AdAge report that cited “multiple people familiar with the plans.”
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Mountain View, California -- If you are a Google Play Music enthusiast, then get ready to dive in, because the company has just unleashed a pair of new updates for both its Google Plus and Google Play Music Android Apps, adding several new features and bug fixes.
San Francisco -- In a fresh move to steal a little thunder from the cloud, search engine giant Google on Wednesday launched a new version of Forms, in the Google Drive app. It now includes collaboration features, so you can edit forms with others in real-time and better editing to the survey tool.
Mountain View, California -- If you passionately enjoy using Google Slides you will be delighted to learn that the company recently released the latest version of its Docs presentation software, Google Slides, to its suite of offline applications, which enable users to create, edit and comment, as it tries to play a spoiler role with the official releases of Microsoft Office 2013 and the home user version of Office 365 right around the corner. (more…) 
Mountain View, California -- In a fresh move to keep pace with its rivals, search engine behemoth Google on Wednesday announced that it is revamping its image search feature on Google.com that its claims is faster, more beautiful, and more reliable. The company also says that users will see the new look “in the next few days” but would not impart any more specific beyond that. (more…)