Today at Web 2.0 Expo Google CEO Eric Schmidt publicly announced that Google will add a presentations product to its Web Office range of apps, thus completing a Web Office

In a move predicted by R/WW's Sean Ammirati and The New York Times a week or so ago, one of the big Internet companies has acquired online advertising system DoubleClick.

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In a timely follow-up to Alex Iskold's thought-provoking piece on Google being The Ultimate Money Making Machine, Hitwise has released stats today that reinforce Google's dominance in the search engine Continue reading »

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Slashdot is running a story stating that Morfik, an Ajax development platform we covered recently on Read/WriteWeb, has filed a patent dated September 2005 for the compiling of high-level languages Continue reading »

Google always has good April Fools jokes and this year is no exception.... More info here. Classic. Who needs a Web Office after all... Continue reading »

NOTE: Please see important update about this week's R/WW Poll below, on the topic of Personalized Homepages. We had to re-set it and so are asking for you to re-submit Continue reading »

In yesterday's interview with Matt Cutts from Google, on the topic of next-generation search, we touched on how Google is tackling the issue of indexing (and advertising around) online video. Continue reading »

One of the missing ingredients in Google's growing Web Office suite is a CRM component. While there is little sign yet of Google providing CRM, a small startup called Etelos Continue reading »