Steve Jobs swore to “destroy Android” in his anger over what he saw as outright copying of Apple‘s ideas in Android phones unveiled early in 2010, according to a new biography being released following his death this month.

Move over, Kindle Fire - the world has a new cheapest tablet computer. India’s government has announced a new Android-powered tablet called Aakash priced at between $35 and $60 that could set a light under the booming country’s digital content market.

There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world—and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto some logs to kill a pig? But not all apps are as wildly successful as Angry Birds. So just as importantly, when it comes to what…

Google India head Rajan Anandan yesterday announced in a press conference that it has joined hands with the Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan to promote its new social network, Google+. He also added that the actor who is often referred to as the “The King of Bollywood,” will be one of…

Tomorrow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) holds a major launch event and will likely unveil its first tablet, according to TechCrunch named the Kindle Fire. To date, everyone bar Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has failed with tablet launches. If Amazon mimics Apple then its tablet will fail too. Apple has too many economies…

It looks like YouTube Box Office is working pretty well for Google India.

Update: We’ve just kicked off the conference and our live stream is available here. Some of the best minds will gather Thursday in New York for paidContent Advertising: Emerging Business Models, the first major conversation about advertising following a summer—and a first week back— than was more active than any…

Yesterday the New York Times ran an article that addresses what is becoming a rather serious issue in the local online marketing space. The issue is around just how easy it is for someone to get a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Places listing tagged as “Permanently Closed”. Now, in a world…

Follow us on Twitter. Like us on Facebook. And soon enough we’ll start seeing +1 or circle us on Google+. I would like to talk about an inflection point in social media that requires pause. I am not suggesting that there will be a social media 2.0 or 3.0 for…

Google’s now infamous Street View camera cars only set to work on the streets of Bangalore last month, but already Indian authorities have ordered Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to suspend taking images because it has not secured the necessary security clearance.

If you, like millions of others, witnessed any of today’s Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on the TV, Internet or in person, you will have seen the crowds that assembled down the Mall, around Westminster Cathedral, in front of Buckingham Palace, and in many other places. But…

Rumours persist that Google’s upcoming music play will be a $25-a-month locker offering streamed access to owned tracks including via Android. In the meantime, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is taking its less ambitious, music search-and-access service - announced 12 months ago - to India.

Now that we’ve gotten all excited about the potential revenues iAd could reap, and big giants like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) have acquired start-ups for hundreds of millions of dollars, what happens if mobile advertising doesn’t end up taking off this year—or any other year? That thought…

The Federal Trade Commission is expected to make a decision as early as this week on whether to allow Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob, a source told mocoNews. And, according to All Things D, the two companies expect the FTC to block the acquisition because of antitrust concerns. The…

Arnon Mishkin is a consultant focused on media and internet companies. The easiest way to clear a room of internet-savvy media executives is to suggest that maybe they should close their sites to crawling and prevent Google (NSDQ: GOOG) from carrying excerpts of their content. “Look, our ability to sell…

Matt Silk is the SVP of Waterfall Mobile, a San Francisco-based digital-messaging company. Location-based services are getting an enormous amount of attention lately, with the launch of Google’s Near Me Now for mobile and other high-profile announcements. As a mobile executive, I am thrilled that this idea – once literally…

At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt was the biggest speaker of them all. And he surely made the desired impression, deftly handling some critical questions from the audience. His focus for the talk was on innovation, specifically on Google’s, and its efforts…

The Financial Times has a sizeable and nicely growing subscription business—so why mess with micropayments? FT.com Managing Director Rob Grimshaw says that half the FT’s print customers are newsstand buyers, and the company needs to offer an similar a la carte option online as well. Grimshaw, in an interview with…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a…