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This edition covers:

• Google stock drops below $500
• Yahoo gets a call from Google for alternative to Microsoft's "bear hug"
• Google Android Developer Challenge gets extension
  

Google stock drops below $500

For this first time since last August, Google stock prices dropped below $500 this week. Maybe that's due to by Google missing earnings, or because of Google's interference with the Microsoft-Yahoo deal, investor's are losing confidence. Considering that Google stock was selling for around $750 last November, this is quite a drop.

Yahoo gets a call from Google for alternative to Microsoft's "bear hug"

The WSJ reports that Google has been making calls to Yahoo to save it from Microsoft by having Yahoo outsource its search and ad business to Google. One does have to consider the irony, especially in the light of David Drummond's post about "openness" and "innovation." If Google practically runs Yahoo, will there really be any competitive search alternatives left?

Google Android Developer Challenge gets extension

Although officially announced last week, the deadline for submissions to the Android Developer Challenge has been pushed pack to April 14, 2008. This is apparently due to an update to the development kit, which will be released in a few weeks.

In other Google bits here at Download Squad:

• Google's social graph - Google releases an API that indexes the web to determine relationships in your social networks, making it easier to find those same friends when you join a new network.
  
• Google doesn't like Microsoft's bid for Yahoo - Google's David Drummond gives his two cents on the unsolicited proposal by Microsoft to buy out Yahoo.
  
• Avoid looking like a spammer on Gmail - Gmail has limits set on the number of recipients that can receive your emails in a day, and will disable your account if you exceed the limit.