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Google Looks To Publishers To Start Rival To Apple News

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Google might launch its own news aggregation service as a way to compete with rival Apple News+. The Wall Street Journal reported that Google has been discussing the issue with several publishers, talking about paying a license fee to use content in an upcoming project. Google hasn’t said yet whether the service will be free.

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Google Search Debuts ‘Watchlist’ For TV, Movie Tracking

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Those looking for a way to keep up with what movies they want to watch will have a new Google tool to do so, according to the website 9to5google. Google’s new tool will allow users to add TV shows and movies to categories for things they’ve watched and want to watch.

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Rapyd to enable PromptPay payments for Thailand's Google Play users

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Rapyd has rolled out PromptPay on the Google Play Store, enabling Thailand’s national payment method to support app downloads and in-app purchases for games, music, movies, video streaming, books, magazines, and other content purchases from Google Play Store.

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Google Brings ‘Play Points’ To The U.S.

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Google is introducing the Google Play Points rewards program in the United States, the company announced on Monday (Nov. The program has already been launched in Japan and Korea, and millions of people have already enrolled, Google said in a blog post. 4), according to reports.

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Google Brings Play Points Rewards Program To The States

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Google is introducing the Google Play Points rewards program in the United States, the company announced on Monday (Nov. The program has already been launched in Japan and Korea, and millions of people have already enrolled, Google said in a blog post. 4), according to reports.

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Happy 15th IPO Anniversary Google!

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I wouldn’t be buying Google stock, and I don’t know anyone who would. Silicon ValleyEntrepreneur, Inventor and Futurist Jeffery Kaplan on Google’s 2004 IPO . Yahoo got a second, albeit more expensive bite at the apple in 2002, two years before Google went public, with months of negotiations between the firms.

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Google And Facebook Scammed Out Of $100M

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This point was driven home recently after it came to light that Facebook and Google found themselves out $100 million at the hands of one ambitious cybercrook. While the corporate victims of the scam weren’t named at the time, Fortune Magazine recently reported that they were none other than Facebook and Google.

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