As Google Share Price Passes $700, New Social Applications APIs Loom Large
At the end of last year the staff of Google passed the 10,000 mark for the first time; now just eleven months later a new milestone has been passed: Google shares this week hit $700 for the first time - just one month after reaching $600, in fact. It is no coincidence perhaps that the surge mirrors its involvement in preparing for today's launch of OpenSocial, described as 'a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web.'
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