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Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base

Google has said it is defending its online advertising empire with the launch of its own brand mobile phone.

6 Jan 2010

Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base

It is the first time Google has designed and sold its own consumer hardware device.

Google said the Nexus One represented the next frontier in the company's $20bn (£12.4bn) (about R146bn) core business - selling advertising through search.

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