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Tweet Google has updated Gmail on iOS for the first time in four years, adding swipe actions and quicker searches to the app. Google Calendar also gets a month view and improved spotlight integration. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Ariana Huffington herself penned a post on Huffington Post Tuesday to remind us that the site’s live video offering HuffPost Live just turned one. And guess what: it’s going well. HuffPost Live generated over 445 million video views in its first year, reaching more than 13 million unique visitors a month. Visitors spend an average of 22 minutes viewing HuffPost Live videos, of which there are now more than 9000….

Tweet There’s a new community site for Google Maps and it’s called Views. It’s a place where you can upload panoramic images created using the Photo Sphere feature, which is limited to Android 4.2 and Nexus devices. “The photo sphere camera mode on your Android phone makes it easy to capture a series of photos and automatically turn them into a seamless 360º experience. You can also turn your DSLR…

Tweet Mobile is quickly becoming the new normal for YouTube, and it’s starting to pay off: 40 percent of all of the service’s video views in the U.S. are now coming from mobile devices, a YouTube spokesperson told GigaOM on Wednesday. Worldwide, mobile is now responsible for 25 percent of all of YouTube’s video views. This, and the roll-out of new mobile apps, has helped YouTube to triple its mobile…

Tweet Plenty of companies have been looking at software for analyzing private large data sets and combining it with external streams such as tweets to make predictions that could boost revenue or cut expenses. Walmart, for instance, has come up with a way for company buyers to cross sales data with tweets on products and categories on Twitter and thereby determine which products to stock. Here’s another possible data source…