This file photo taken on February 05, 2016 shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange coming out on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy to address the media in central London. This file photo taken on February 05, 2016 shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange coming out on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy to address the media in central London.
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Google’s Latest Cloud Event Suggests Its Enterprise Message is Gaining Traction
While Amazon remains the cloud infrastructure market’s 800-pound gorilla, Google’s unique services are winning over more businesses. This column originally appeared on March 8 on Real Money, our premium site for active traders.
Google spent $30 billion on its cloud and is making some…
If there’s one question that the top brass at Google are sick of being asked it’s this: How are you going to catch up in the cloud market to Amazon and Microsoft? Google’s answer is pretty straightforward: the old-fashioned way. It plans to build out its tech, making it reliable, affordable, with just enough differentiation to attract customers.
Google’s Latest Cloud Event Suggests Its Enterprise Message is Gaining Traction
” has…the money, the means and the commitment to pull off a new platform of computation globally, for everybody who needs it.” One has to wonder if Schmidt read a morning Wall Street Journal column raising doubts about the company’s enterprise cloud bona fides.
WikiLeaks Adds to Samsung Headaches With Claims of Spying TVs
For a company that has been mired in negative headlines for months, just about the last thing Samsung Electronics Co. needed was news its smart TVs could be used to spy on users.
Ever Want Image Search For Google Earth? This AI-Driven Tool Does That
There’s a single wind turbine near the intersection of 760th St. and Quincy Road in Massena, Iowa. It’s just one of thousands of them located around the country.
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Amazon Is Pulling Out All the Stops Against Apple and Google in High-Stakes Voice Assistant Wars
Although Apple and Google’s voice assistants are shipped with far more devices, Amazon’s Alexa has become a formidable rival thanks to big investments and a swelling ecosystem. As much as Amazon’s Echo home speaker/voice assistant has turned into a surprise hit and yielded a blizzard of positive media attention, the Alexa voice assistant powering Echo hardware is still in key respects at a strategic disadvantage compared to rival offerings from Alphabet /Google , Apple , and Microsoft’s .
Amazon is Pulling Out All the Stops Against Apple and Google in the Voice Assistant Wars
Echo home speaker/voice assistant has turned into a surprise hit and yielded a blizzard of positive media attention, the Alexa voice assistant powering Echo hardware is still in key respects at a strategic disadvantage relative to Alphabet /Google Google and Apple’s assistants each shipped with hundreds of millions of mobile devices last year, and Microsoft’s perhaps on close to 200 million PCs. By contrast, Echo sales were likely only in seven figures.
Does Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Need Adult Supervision?
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, file photo, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Snap Inc., owner of the ephemeral message service Snapchat, seeks to raise up to $3 billion in an initial public offering.
Does Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Need Adult Supervision?
In this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, file photo, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel poses for a photo in Los Angeles. Snap Inc., owner of the ephemeral message service Snapchat, seeks to raise up to $3 billion in an initial public offering.
Google brings Assistant to Android phones
Google’s voice-activated digital assistant will soon be available on smartphones running the latest versions of the Android operating system. LG was one of the first smartphone makers to reveal it would feature the assistant on its new device, the G6.
Google Brings Tilt Brush To The Oculus Rift
The company may have its own VR platforms, but that isn’t stopping it from developing great content for other systems. If you have an Oculus Rift and have been feeling left out because you can’t use one of the most-awarded virtual reality experiences, Google’s ready to let you in on the fun.
Do Women Need Ivanka Trump to Break the Glass Ceiling?
Yesterday’s roundtable between President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and nine top female executives was arranged by Ivanka Trump. The first daughter is rapidly emerging as a champion for women at work, particularly those of the entrepreneurial and leadership variety.
Snap Just Became One of Google’s Most Important Cloud Customers
One of the many interesting details revealed in Snap ‘s S-1 filing with the SEC is that it agreed to a $2 billion contract with Google Cloud in January. The agreement with the Alphabet Snap has used Google Cloud since its creation, but had been spending considerably less than the $400 million per year it’s slated to spend through 2021.
Amazon and Apple’s Payments Growth Shows PayPal Is Facing Stiffer Competition
Though its shares — and back when it was a part of eBay , eBay’s shares — have dipped a number of times on news that a tech giant is trying to muscle in on its turf, the company has kept delivering 20%-plus payment volume growth like clockwork. But while any talk of a would-be “PayPal-killer” merits skepticism, the company does arguably face a tougher competitive environment than any time in recent history.
Google Badly Needs to Swing a Deal for a Chinese App Store
Launching Google Play in China would let the search giant take part in a booming local app store market, and provide a means of distributing its apps. When it comes to mobile, China represents quite the paradox for Alphabet /Google .
Google Said to Fund Legal Brief Against Trump Immigration Order
Google parent Alphabet Inc. is footing the bill for the legal brief signed by more than 120 companies that oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, according to people familiar with the arrangement. While Alphabet is paying Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP to handle the friend-of-the-court brief, other companies have offered to fund a share of the fee, the people said.
Google cut off a website’s revenue because of something in an…
Google cut off a website’s revenue because of something in an article’s comments from 6 years ago Google had stopped serving ads to his site, Fark.com, for weeks because it had accused the site of hosting pedophile content. Fark is an 18-year-old website where people share and chat about oddball news stories after writing funny, alternative headlines for them.
As Rumors Persist, Google Badly Needs to Swing a Chinese App Store Deal
On the other, the vast majority of the Chinese devices running the OS don’t contain any of Google’s apps and services. That’s what makes a fresh report about talks to launch Google Play in China intriguing.
Google’s Alliances With Big Mobile Carriers Could Spell Trouble for Cisco, Juniper and Others
That makes Google’s efforts to share its networking know-how with major mobile carriers something that investors in major data center and telecom equipment suppliers, such as Cisco Systems , should keep an eye on. Especially since Google seems to be prodding the carriers in a direction that some of them have already been moving in.
Facebook’s Earnings Reveal a Company That Won’t Take Its Foot Off the Pedal
The social networking giant’s aggressive spending plans have some investors on edge. But its sales growth and execution remain solid.
Is Voice Search an Opportunity or a Threat to Google?
Consumers are doing more and more web searches just by talking. And they’re not just asking the digital assistants on their smartphones; they’re also buying all-new devices, such as the Amazon.com , the new trend in search is a double-edged sword.
More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban
Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.
More And More Tech Leaders Are Denouncing Trump’s Muslim Ban
Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai are just some of those expressing concerns about the order banning refugees from 7 countries. A growing number of tech leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, are denouncing President Trump’s executive order that bans refugees from 7 Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan.
Google recalls staff to the U.S. after Trumpa s immigration order
Alphabet’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.
Google recalls staff to the U.S. after Trumpa s immigration order
Alphabet’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.
Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order
Alphabet Inc.’s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted by a new executive order on immigration from President Donald Trump: Get back to the U.S. now. Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai slammed Trump’s move in a note to employees Friday, telling them that more than 100 company staff are affected by the order.
Google Not Planning to Be Silenced by Amazon’s Echo
Amazon’s Echo may have the early edge, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the race to have the dominant voice assistant is at a ‘very early’ stage. The blowout success of the Amazon Echo has raised the stakes in the voice assistant space, but Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn’t seem to be all that worried.
Alphabet Earnings Marred by Taxman, While Revenue Jumps
Alphabet Inc. reported better-than-expected revenue thanks to a fast-growing cloud-computing business and booming YouTube video advertising, but the taxman spoiled the party. Fourth-quarter revenue, after payments for online traffic from distribution partners, was $21.2 billion, up 23 percent from a year earlier, the company said in a statement Thursday.
Alphabet Scales Back Another ‘Moonshot’ With Verily Sale
The Google parent’s $800M sale to Temasek is the latest move to reel in some of its ambitious ‘Other Bets’ investments. In another move that suggests Alphabet Inc. is having second thoughts about big so-called “moonshot” investments, its life sciences subsidiary, Verily, said it will sell a minority stake to Singaporean firm Temasek Holdings Pte.
Google Maps wants to make your inauguration weekend in D.C. a little less crazy
Bridge and road closures have already started in Washington. To help with the potential chaos, Google Maps is reworking its D.C.-area guides this week to reflect all of the madness — and, one could hope, Road closures: Google is actively updating its maps in the D.C. area to reflect those many bridge and road closures that are sure to gum up the flow of traffic this weekend.
New LG smartwatches may be nearly ready to launch
Last week we reported on an LG smartwatch passing through the USA’s comms regulator – and now two more have followed suit. On Friday, we wrote about a mystery device with the model number W280 becoming certified by the Federal Communications Commission .
Alphabet Said in Talks to Sell Skybox Satellite Business
Alphabet Inc. is in talks to sell the Skybox Imaging satellite business it acquired for $500 million less than three years ago, another sign the technology giant is ratcheting back grand ambitions to blanket the globe with internet service. Planet Labs Inc., a satellite imaging startup, may acquire Skybox, according to people familiar with the situation.
Photos: The Big Detroit Auto Show has Started and it Already Looks Awesome
Even with the black cloud hanging over the auto industry that is President-elect Trump’s Twitter feed, the Detroit Auto Show was able to shine when it kicked off on Sunday evening. The showstopper by far in the early going is Waymo’s self-driving minivan in partnership with Fiat Chrysler .
Ford, Toyota Form Telematics Bloc to Stymie Google and Apple
Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. have formed a consortium with four medium-size automakers to speed development of auto-industry standards for in-vehicle apps, a step toward preventing Apple Inc. and Google from controlling how drivers connect smartphones to their cars and trucks.
It’s On! 2017 Is The Year The Virtual Assistant Wars Get Real
Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, and Microsoft’s Cortana look to hardware partnerships and development deals to take on Apple’s Siri. The tech industry’s titans have been preparing for an all-out virtual assistant war in 2017-and it’ll be fought by Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and maybe even Microsoft’s Cortana.
Why 2017 Is the Year to Invest in IoT Stocks
Investors have likely heard a lot about the Internet of Things . The term refers to the connection of formerly unconnected things to the Internet, so that they can collect data or automate processes.
Android flaw puts billions at risk
Almost one billion Android devices are affected by a serious security flaw which can give attackers access to all data and hardware, including the camera. The vulnerability, dubbed ‘Quadrooter’ was flagged by researchers from Check Point, an international cyber security company.