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Web stat geeks will be stoked about Google Analytics updates that include real time widgets and interactive insights that help define how customers really decide to finally make a purchase.

Yahoo is bidding for Tumblr in an attempt to boost its social media credentials, but Facebook and other parties may be interested in spoiling the party. 

Voice search in Google's Chrome browser now features hands free search by saying the phrase, "Okay, Google."

Once a year, Google throws its I/O developers conference, and day one in 2013 featured plenty of updates about the company's most popular search, mobile and cloud products including a hands free voice search feature for laptops and desktops.

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Google's I/0 event keynote is in full swing with announcements for developers, gadget lovers and social media users. A cross-platform Hangouts app is one of the highlights, bringing its various communications apps together. 

Content delivery vendor Limelight hosts video, provides content management, delivery, performance and cloud storage with Orchestrate 2.0.

Providing multiple format content to various devices in real time is a feature many technology providers are striving for in a mobile world, and Limelight Orchestrate 2.0 has been released for doing just that.

Launch a Gchat session right from an Outlook.com email message with the Google contacts integration.

Google's instant messaging service has been integrated into the Microsoft universe, at least when it comes to the Web based Outlook.com and the cloud based SkyDrive storage app.

With the unveiling of the next Android OS 'Key Lime Pie' a possibility at its Google I/O event, starting tomorrow, it seems the existing flavors are doing pretty well. Analyst figures from Gartner show almost 75% of smartphones now run the OS, powered by growth in Asia.

To make life easier for Google users, the company is now unifying its storage for the likes of Gmail, Drive and so on. But will that big 15GB slice of cloud be used for anything fun at the company's IO event?

Site visitors could always do with a little more content, right? But even if your site has lots of great articles, getting links to the right kind of stories can be problematic. So, Google will now feed appropriate content using recommendations from its social media service for mobile users.

Google has announced a new YouTube Analytics API which is designed to give more insight into viewer trends through “patterned data.”

Google looked to the enterprise this week with a couple of updates intended to make administrator's and document collaborator's lives a little easier.

For all the effort that goes into making some of the awesome YouTube content, the cents from advertising support, even in video form, look increasingly small change for many. The service's new subscription channels could shake up how top content producers work, but content creators have many issues to consider. 

The move form Hotmail to Outlook.com is over. It's official. According to a post on the Microsoft Office blog, everyone on Hotmail has been upgraded and everyone that doesn't already have access to the features Microsoft has been adding over the past months will be given access in the coming months.

It’s been a DAM brief week. And, in digital asset management news, Nuxeo releases a desktop sync client, North Plains refreshes several of its key products, Parliament decides to help -- or not -- intellectual property orphans, and Google comes up with a clunky-sounding name for afterlife options.