Category Archives: Google

What’s in your wallet?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by brandonopdx

If Google has any say in the matter, perhaps the only thing left in your wallet will be a driver’s license. But before you go short selling stock in leather accessory companies, let’s take a closer look at how Google … Continue rea...

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Oh the Places you’ll Go(ogle)!

Posted on August 30, 2011 by brandonopdx

Today’s Willamette Week (link unavailable) features an article that seeks to vilify Google’s latest product, Google Places. To stoke the flames of fear, they quote Paul Wagner, founder of local deal site Forkfly.com, who claims that Places is “...

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Google announces acquisition of Portland food cart Spaghetti al Ragu

Posted on August 24, 2011 by brandonopdx

Well, not exactly. But the food cart did enter a deal to license the technology of a real life Google acquisition, the mobile loyalty app ‘Punchd.’ Punchd has a noble aim: to create space in our wallets and on merchant … Continue r...

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