Today, Google announced Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty , a new academic grant program that will provide 1 billion hours of computational core capacity to a small group of qualified researchers. These researchers are tackling a variety of problems that require massive amounts of computational power to advance their disciplines. In the future, we think that Google Exacycle could also help companies create new business opportunities in a variety of industries,

Today the Google Apps Marketplace turns one! In the past year, we've had the pleasure of collaborating with many of the best developers on the web, working to make it easy for you to extend Google Apps with great apps for your businesses or school. Our selection has grown from 50 to over 300 apps, and includes great apps for CRM, project management, customer support, finance, email marketing, and more. You've told us we're on to something...what else have we learned?

Editor's Note : Guest authors Lynn Jaber and Romain Vialard work at Revevol, the first international service provider dedicated to Google Apps. Each day, they imagine new ways to improve their business processes with Google technology! At Revevol, we train clients' employees who have just migrated to Google Apps, to help them get the most out of their new system. The more Revevol grows, the more customer trainings we have to handle,

Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of posts on apps or topics in the Google Apps Marketplace that have caught our eye here at Google. We'll do this every so often as we see things we'd like to share. Look for the label " marketplace highlights " and subscribe to the series if you'd like to stay tuned. As we work our way into the new year, we recognize that tax season can be very difficult for businesses.