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If you were lamenting the loss of Arthur Frommer's travel guides, take heart: the travel expert has acquired the brand from Google and plans to resume publishing the books.

The search giant acquired the Frommer's brand last summer from Wiley & Sons, including its travel guides and hotel ratings, for an undisclosed price. However, last month, authors of the popular travel guides told travel news site Skift that Google had ceased publication of the print version.

Frommer sold the travel book line to Simon & Schuster in 1977. It changed hands a few more times and stayed with … Read more

Frommer's, the popular travel guidebook series, will no longer be available in print, according to a report today from travel news site Skift.

Google, which bought the series in August, has stopped the publication of the print versions, authors of the books told Skift. The search giant quietly removed the bookstore from the Frommers.com site in September.

The printed books' authors, who were working on 29 titles, said they were told by editors that Google is not publishing the books. The writers said that originally, right after Google bought the series, they were told that there would be … Read more

The Apple-Samsung patent infringement trial is on fire, with the presiding judge applying much of the heat.

Tension appeared to peak this week when U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh began yelling at Apple for trying to book too many witnesses in its last few hours.

"I am not going to be running around trying to get 75 pages of briefings for people who are not going to be testifying," Koh told Apple's lawyer Bill Lee.

"I mean come on. 75 pages! 75 pages! You want me to do an order on 75 pages, (and) unless … Read more

Monday's top-story rundown knows where you live:

Just when you think it's safe to tweet, here comes WeKnowYourHouse.com. The site is a social media experiment designed to show how easy it is for tweets to be used against you. If a Twitter user has location turned on, and they send a message with the word "home" in it, then the site will display it along with a Street View image of the location. Similar to PleaseRobMe.com, it showcases how some users may not be aware of how much information they are sharing.

But you … Read more

Google is known as the search company that makes money on advertising -- nearly $38 billion in revenue for 2011. It's also a company that has tentacles gripping almost every corner of the digital world, competing with Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, GroupOn, Expedia, Open Table, Yelp, Square, phone companies and a host of others.  It's a company that appears to know no boundaries in its quest to digitally reengineer the planet, other than those placed on it by government bodies. 

Google's latest grab, Frommer's travel guides, expands its content base in an … Read more

Google is once again investing in the travel space.

The search giant is acquiring travel guide provider Frommer's from John Wiley & Sons. It's not immediately clear what Google might have planned for Frommer's, and a purchase price has not been divulged.

Wiley announced earlier this year that it would put Frommer's, which includes everything from travel guides to hotel ratings, on the purchasing block, though the company did not have any potential suitors in mind.

It's not all that surprising that Google has jumped in to swipe Frommer's. The company has been making … Read more

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