Backed by Google ventures ( GOOG), gyft offers a few additional features to those who have already purchased plastic gift cards.

Mr Maris founded Google Ventures in 2009 and oversees all of the fund's global activities 。

2009年，马里斯建立了谷歌风投，并监管着全球的投资活动。

As one example from fellow Cambridge-based and Google Ventures backed startup SCVNGR, the company was the first to publicly launch with integration to the Google Places API last fall.

总部位于剑桥、同样获得谷歌风投支持的初创企业手机游戏平台运营商SCVNGR就是一个例子。这家公司去年秋季率先公开推出与Google Places API整合的产品。

And we do that across all our acquisitions were we are interested in a Google ventures portfolio company.

如果我们Google Ventures旗下的投资组合公司感兴趣，我们在收购时都会采取这样的做法。

now, general partner at Google Ventures.

现任谷歌风投普通合伙人。

Bill Maris of Google ventures declined to comment, as did an MMI spokeswoman.

谷歌风险投资负责人比尔•马里斯拒绝就此置评，而摩托罗拉移动风险投资发言人也表示不予评论。

Google Ventures is leveraging its unique position and strength in what is sure to be a popular value-add for its portfolio companies.

谷歌风投正在利用其独特的地位和优势，为所投资企业提供这项必将大受欢迎的增值服务。

Google Ventures, which is changing its name to GV, has backed more than 300 companies since its creation six years ago.

即将改名为“GV”的Google Ventures自6年前创立以来，已投资了300多家公司。

To date, the company has raised more than$ 8 billion from investors including Benchmark and Google Ventures, as well as large financial firms like Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth.

迄今为止，该公司已筹集了逾80亿美元，投资者包括Benchmark和谷歌风投（Google Ventures），以及高盛（Goldman Sachs）和TPG Growth等大型金融机构。

Newer rival Secret has raised over$ 11 million from such firms as Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures.

而它刚冒头的对手“秘密”（Secret）则已获得凯鹏华盈（Kleiner Perkins）和谷歌创投（Google Ventures）等公司超过1100万美元的投资。

Both TPG and Google ventures declined to comment.

但TPG与谷歌风投都拒绝发表评论。

This also is a bit unusual, given that Google ventures typically invests in smaller, earlier-stage companies.

这也有些不同寻常，因为谷歌风投通常只投资规模较小、处于发展早期的公司。

This is potentially a huge point of differentiation for Google ventures.

这可能是谷歌风投与其他风投公司的巨大差异。

The folks at Google ventures are smart.

谷歌风投的员工非常聪明。

Doerr and Brin were joined by Marc Andreessen, of Andreessen Horowitz and bill Maris, of Google ventures.

与杜尔、布林站在一起的还有安德森-霍罗维茨风险投资公司的马克•安德森和Google Ventures的比尔•玛利斯。

Google Ventures, the company's venture capital arm, has invested in diverse companies including Blue Bottle Coffee and Uber, the on-demand taxi service.

谷歌风投（Google Ventures）是谷歌的风险投资部门，负责把资金投给各种公司，包括蓝瓶咖啡（Blue Bottle Coffee）和按需租车服务Uber。

For a B2B company like hubspot, including Google ventures as an investor validates our business model for Main Street America.

对于像HubSpot这样的B2B公司，有谷歌风投作为投资者，便足以向业界证明其商业模式的有效性。

The truth is Google Glass differs very minimally from a smartphone and the tech giant needs to make sure people know that.

实际上，谷歌眼镜与智能手机差不多，而科技巨头谷歌需要确保人们能够了解这一点。

The Internet company says it is still testing its new device. It hopes to make Google Glass available to the public by early next year.

该互联网公司称谷歌眼镜仍在测试中，希望明年年初能向公众推出。

Smart glass products like Google Glass are wearable computers with a head-mounted display.

谷歌眼镜这样的智能眼镜产品其实是带有头戴式显示器的可穿戴计算机。

Google glass would also qualify as a screen.

谷歌眼镜也能算是一块屏幕。