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Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet

By JENNA WORTHAM, VINDU GOEL and NICOLE PERLROTH

The swift rise of upstarts like Snapchat suggests a changing reality for how - and where - people like to spend their time. 

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Start-Up Leaders Recall Choice to Cash In or Stay Independent

The decision that the founders of Snapchat faced - to cash out or remain independent at least for now - is one that all successful technology entrepreneurs eventually confront. 

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Google Fosters South Korean Startups Wall Street Journal SEOUL—Until about nine months ago, Dave Cho woke up every morning to teach fifth-graders math, history and science at a school in the South Korean port ... See all stories on this topic »	Wall Street Journal
Google Pushes Android KitKat To Nexus Tablets InformationWeek Google announced that it has begun pushing Android 4.4 KitKat to the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The operating system is first being made available to ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Brings Portable Native Client To Chrome InformationWeek As part of its ongoing effort to make web apps perform as well as native apps, Google released Portable Native Client (PNaCl), a software framework that allows ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Helping Developers Target Education Apps at K-12 Teachers eWeek Google has created a new section of its Google Play store where teachers can find innovative apps that can help them teach their students and ease their ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Nexus 5 coming to India next week: Report Times of India NEW DELHI: Google's Nexus 5 smartphone has been listed on the company's online marketplace since its global unveiling and is slated to be launched soon in ... See all stories on this topic »	Times of India
Google Helps Researchers Map Global Forestry Changes PC Magazine Bad news, forest fans. A whole ton of satellite maps, crunched by Google's Earth Engine and displayed in a lovely Web-based application from researchers at ... See all stories on this topic »
Google & Facebook Also Have An Energy Dark Side CleanTechnica Google confirmed on Friday that it is investing $80 million in six new solar facilities under construction in California and Arizona. The plants, expected to come ... See all stories on this topic »
Google Employees Confess the Worst Things About Working at ... Entrepreneur "The worst part of working at Google, for many people, is that they're ... Google has a very high hiring bar due to the strength of the brand name, the pay & perks, ... See all stories on this topic »	Entrepreneur
Google Trekkers map Florida beaches by foot Knoxville News Sentinel David DeLong hikes along a beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., carrying mapping gear on Nov. 8, 2013. DeLong is a Google Trekker who walks places cars can't go ... See all stories on this topic »
Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile ... Daily Mail At last! Google has agreed to introduce changes which will prevent depraved images and videos from appearing for more than 100,000 different searches. See all stories on this topic »	BBC News

Creepy Google Glass pics without anyone knowing? Yes, you can CNET The inventor of the Google Glass Sunshade says his motivation was to make it easier to see the Glass graphics when in sunshine. Coincidentally, it also covers ... See all stories on this topic » Google Pushes for More Clean Energy in Land of the Data Centers Wired That's a problem for tech companies like Facebook and Google, who want to give their energy-intensive computing systems a green tint. Facebook, for example ... See all stories on this topic » Siliconrepublic.com Google Makes It Easier for Mobile Users to Fill Out Online Forms eWeek Google is adding improvements in its mobile Chrome browsers to help speed ... The faster autofill features were unveiled by Google software engineers Ruslan ... See all stories on this topic » Google's Book-Scanning Victory: What's at Stake for Authors, Readers eWeek Google scored a major victory on Nov. 14 in a long-running lawsuit with book authors. Those authors, led by the advocacy group Authors Guild, have argued that ... See all stories on this topic » Google Wins Copyright Scanning Case Against Authors Insurance Journal Google Inc. on Thursday won dismissal of a long-running lawsuit by authors who accused the Internet search company of digitally copying millions of books for ... See all stories on this topic » Insurance Journal Google Play Music App Hits iOS PC Magazine Good news on the music streaming front, iPhone and iPad users. Google Play Music is now available on iOS. The app, which first launched on Android in May, ... See all stories on this topic » Google scores key legal victory in books lawsuit Green Bay Press Gazette SAN FRANCISCO - Google on Thursday landed a key legal victory against the publishing industry in what could pave the way for the search giant to continue its ... See all stories on this topic » Google Revamps Google Now Landing Page, Perfect Place to See ... Droid Life Google Now has grown and matured so much since it was first announced, and the number of cards that are available for people to utilize continues to multiply. See all stories on this topic » Google Music Arrives On iOS, Includes A Free Month Of "All Access ... TechCrunch Google Play Music arrived on iOS today, following reports from earlier this week stating that a launch was “imminent.” The app, which will compete with Apple's ... See all stories on this topic » Google exec to help announce North Stafford fiber connection Fredericksburg.com Google's chief technology officer for the public sector will be part of an announcement next month about improved fiber-optic connections at the Quantico ... See all stories on this topic »