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Google Lively cut short

Google has announced that it will be closing Google Lively at the end of the year, four and a half months after the service launched. The social networking space, set up in July this year, gave users the chance to interact while expressing themselves online in new ways”. Google confessed …

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YouTube inks game link deal

YouTube will start ‘selling’ games via links from its popular video game-relevant videos to online stores. The Google-owned site will split revenue with the likes Amazon and iTunes on sales of music, films, TV shows, video games, books, concert tickets and other media-related products that are bought by those following …

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Google unveils AdSense for games

Web giant Google has finally unveiled its long-awaited bid to enter the in-game advertising sector, revealing it is putting a big focus of the strategy on casual games. In a post on the blog for the firm’s web advertising team Adsense, Google reps said that it is targeting web games …

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Valve calls Google story ‘100% rumour’

Valve’s Doug Lombardi has described today’s rumourmongering that the studio is to be bought by Google as "100% rumour". Speaking to Spong, the marketing boss’ description of the story is the first comment made by the studio. Google has described the story as "rumour and speculation", although clearly both have …

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Google refuses to rule out Valve takeover

Google has refused to rule out the possibility that it is to acquire Half Life developer Valve. When questioned by MCV by the roaring rumour that it is to announce the buyout of the Steam parent company this week at Austin GDC, A Google spokesperson told us: We do not …

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