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Microsoft has renamed its small and medium business (SMB) targeted Microsoft Advertising to Bing. The company hopes the move will boost sales by giving advertisers a cue that they are buying traffic on Microsoft’s search engine. Will it make a difference?

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Big Data has become quite the talking point in recent years as databases swell to previously unimaginable sizes. Google now wades into the enterprise battle offering its BigQuery solution that requires no BigIron hardware or BigBucks software.

The last post has blown for PostRank, with the company confirming the "sunsetting" of its popular social media analytics service, which Google brought last June, with users being advised to switch to Google Analytics instead.

No matter what you say about Google, Google Apps has become one of the everyday work tools for many enterprises, especially -- although not exclusively -- in the SMB space. Most people assume that easy functionality combined with bargain-basement pricing is the main attraction. However, according to research by Cloud Alliance, that is not, in fact, the case.

Google's head of mobile advertising has put together a little show-and-tell project, The Busy Executive's Guide to Winning With Mobile, which looks at strategies for success in the mobile space. The thing is, if you don't already know what the content is, you really shouldn't be running a company. Or have access to firearms. Or heavy machinery. Or livestock.

This week Google launched their long awaited Google Drive service that offers cloud storage of images, videos and documents. The service is free for up to 5 GB of storage, with paid plans offering from 20 gigabytes up to 16 terabytes of storage for a monthly fee.

Google Drive is barely a day old, and it has already earned the ire of some of the biggest Internet audiences. Apparently China -- or at least the authorities -- doesn't like Google Drive, as with other Google services. The recently-launched cloud storage service has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. But at whose benefit?

Google's social network has added a new way to share content over its growing search + your world platform. Google+ now offers a Google Share button that looks similar to the +1 button. But will websites find it more useful?

Now Google's cloud storage service has been unveiled, and is being slowly rolled out to users, what does the tech world think of yet another remote filing tray? The first panic took off minutes into the service's life over rights issues, but now users are keen to check out Drive's features and potential.

Google's much-anticipated cloud storage service has been launched, offering 5GB of free storage to all users, with the message "keep everything, share anything."

In a half-billion dollar cash deal between two technology titans, Microsoft agreed to sell up to 70% of the patents it recently acquired from storied AOL just two weeks earlier for about twice that sum (US$ 1.056 billion) in cash. Terms of the Microsoft/ Facebook deal include ownership of 650 AOL patents and patent applications, plus access (via license) to the patents and filings that Microsoft will retain. 

With the growing popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, not all websites are churning out mobile-friendly content, it seems. According to a recent study, poorly designed websites are probably killing your battery faster than they should be.

With the promise of paying for ads only viewers watch, the lure of the world's largest video community (YouTube) and the #1 ad network, with a whopping 89% of all online users, the company said its Google AdWords for Video offers "creative tools" and innovative ad formats with comprehensive targeting that translates into a "risk free" way to spread one's message online -- this time using the power of video to tell the story. 

Google, as ever, has been rolling out the changes across its range of products with more integration betweern Gmail and Google+ and many other additions. As we wait for the big Drive unveiling (will it be this week? Will it, will it?) we catch up on all the Googling fun that's gone in the past few days.