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The financial slowdown has reached Mountain View, as Google plans to give employees an Android powered handset instead of the $1,000 cash gifts it usually gives. In countries where the phone does not work as yet, like the BRIC countries, Google will give employees $400 (which is the cash value of the phone).

Dipchand ‘Deep’ Nishar is all set to leave Google and join LinkedIn. A six year veteran who built and managed Google’s mobile business worldwide besides being Sr. Director of Product Management with responsibility for product development in the APAC region, Nishar is joining LinkedIn as Vice President-Products, and expected to begin in his new role from [...]

Anand Rajarman and Venky Harinarayan of Kosmix have managed to tie up a fourth round of funding, this time worth $20 million, from a consortium led by Time Warner, Ed Zander, ex-CEO of Motorola, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and included the existing investors - Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and DAG Ventures. Since it’s launch around two years ago, Kosmix [...]

Was just reading up on the net about a new feature in Gmail Labs that lets you send SMS messages. (Nothing great btw – Yahoo and AOL + some others have been doing this for a while now). I headed over to my Gmail->Settings->Labs but was unable to find this option, so I assumed it [...]

Wishing everyone and their families a Very Happy and Safe Diwali !! Hope the coming year continues to brings health, wealth and happiness to you and your loved ones. As usual, the guys at Google are always quick to showcase such festivals with a custom logo, and this time is no different.

Was watching the term “Google Goggles” all over the blogosphere but somehow kept putting off clicking on those links to know what exactly what it was. A visit to the Gmail Blog quickly had me doing a double take on this, though…

Google Inc acquired Tatter and Company, the owners of popular Korean blogging platform, Textcube. Neither company was willing to divulge how much the deal value was. Tatter co-CEO Chang-Won Kim made the announcement on his personal blog saying, "We’ve been Googled!".