BROWSER WARS: Google has released an app for its Chrome browser to compete against Apple's Safari on the iPhone and iPad. full story ![]()

SAN FRANCISCO — Andy Rubin is stepping down as head of Google Inc.’s Android division after he helped turn the software into the world’s most widely-used mobile operating system. Google’s browser and applications chief Sundar Pichai will replace Rubin, bringing the firm’s mobile software, applications and Chrome browser under one ...
bangordailynews.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
Filed under: Investing Tech investors who lived through the dot-com crash can remember back to a time when Web browsers were seen as a killer technology. Microsoft made defeating Netscape its defining battle of the late '90s; competition was so fierce that Microsoft's tactics in the Web browser space was a central part of the antitrust case that aimed to break up the...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 20 days ago)

Here at Google I/O, the company is discussing their Chrome web browser, and they’ve announced that the browser has reached 750 million active users, which is up from 450 million users last year, which is quite the increase. However, the company showed off how they’re working to evolve the Chrome browser in order to enjoy ...
slashgear.com (2 days ago)

Google called its Chrome browser “the most popular browser used in the world” during Wednesday’s Google I/O keynote. And the company used that occasion to present updates to Chrome on both desktop and mobile, as well as new developer tools for Chrome. Google says Chrome usage continues to grow dramatically. While Chrome OS was mentioned, Sundar Pichai-Google’s senior vice...
pcworld.com (2 days ago)
Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS. The improvements include new file compression formats for images and video, and a new commerce system that makes shopping easier on mobile devices, Google said at its I/O...
pcworld.com (2 days ago)
The mobile messaging landscape is teeming with apps both large and small, from Kakao to Pinger to WhatsApp. Who'd want to jump into that? Chorus.im does, and claims it has a new idea: people should be able to mobile message one-to-one, or in groups, without having to download and register with any app at all. They can just chat through their mobile browser.
forbes.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
Filed under: Investing In recent times, Apple has been trying to shift consumer focus away from market share in unit terms while emphasizing different usage statistics, arguing that even though people may buy competing devices, they might not be using them as much. Well, if the Mac maker is looking for more ammo, it needs to look no further than new data out from Net...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp released Internet Explorer 10 to millions of new users on Tuesday, hoping the latest version of its market-leading browser will win back customers who have migrated to Google Inc's Chrome and help it establish a toe-hold in the fast-growing mobile browser market.
reuters.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
Google recently stunned the internet tech world by announcing that it would abandon the mobile-standard WebKit page-rendering engine in its Chrome browser.
pcmag.com (1 month and 12 days ago)

Box VP of Engineering Sam Schillace talks about building the service that became Google Docs, then fighting for the service's life, and now rethinking collaboration for the mobile web.
gigaom.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
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