Category: Search Engines

Better Buy: Baidu, Inc. vs. Facebook

The divergent fortunes of Facebook and Baidu shares over the past year only reinforce their apparent differences. However, though their core businesses today touch different areas of the global technology market, Facebook and Baidu are united in their ongoing efforts to shape some of technology’s most important future growth markets.

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Earnings season is well under way, and some big tech names are up next. In the coming days, investors will watch Alphabet report results for their most recently ended quarters.

Google Buys Parts of Twitter, But Doesn’t Want the Whole Thing

That package includes its mobile application development platform Fabric, the Crashlytics crash-reporting platform, mobile app analytics tool Answers, SMS login system Digits, and development automation system Fastlane. Does the sale indicate that Twitter will sell itself off in bits and pieces instead of as a whole company? Or does it mean that Twitter is merely streamlining its business by dumping its non-core assets? Let’s take a closer look at Twitter and Google’s plans to decide.

3 Top Driverless Car Stocks to Buy Now

I bought a new-to-me car recently, and I realized that by the time I’m in the market for another one, we’ll likely be knee-deep into the driverless car transformation . That’s because IHS estimates that there will be 76 million partially to fully autonomous vehicles on the road worldwide by 2035.

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Baby monitors have come a long way from the walkie-talkie-type devices that let you listen in on the coos and cries of your infant. Today they’re part of the Internet of Things in a connected home that let you wirelessly watch your child on your computer, laptop, or smartphone whether you’re at home, outside, or away.

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.

Yahoo deletes tweet that included racial slur

Yahoo Finance says it accidentally tweeted out a racial epithet when promoting a story about the cost of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to increase the size of the U.S. Navy. The headline for the story on Yahoo Finance is, “Trump Wants a Much Bigger Navy: Here’s How Much It’ll Cost.”

Alexa Could Be Amazon’s “Fourth Pillar”

All three have been instrumental to Amazon’s success over the past decade-plus and Bezos wrote, “I assure you that we also remain hard at work on finding a fourth [pillar].” It’s been two years since Amazon unveiled the Echo, which can serve as a hub for other smart-home devices like thermostats and lightbulbs, and its functionality has been extended through third-party “skills,” which function like voice-controlled apps.

7 Signs Amazon’s Best Days Are Ahead of It

The company has come to dominate the retail industry and is rapidly disrupting many other areas of the global economy. Yet with its stock up several hundred times in value since its 1997 IPO, you’d be excused for thinking Amazon’s days of turbocharged growth are long gone.

China’s Sogou Targets $5 Billion IPO to Chase Rival Baidu

China’s third-biggest search engine expects to hold a U.S. initial public offering at a valuation of as much as $5 billion as it raises cash to close the gap with leader Baidu Inc. in the mobile market. Sogou, whose name means “search dog,” plans to sell about 10 percent of its shares in an IPO that will probably be held this year, Chief Executive Officer Wang Xiaochuan said in an interview.

FCC’s 5 biggest battles for Trump’s first year

Republicans are poised to take control of the Federal Communications Commission and the agency is bracing for a shake-up. Wheeler will step down in 2017 and control is tilting to the agency’s Republican commissions after Dem Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel failed to be reconfirmed.

2016’s Best CEOs

The best chief executive officers are an often-underrated source of competitive advantage. A strong leader with the vision to steer a company safely through rapidly changing business conditions can many times be the difference between a business’ success and failure.

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.

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Software corporation Oracle is asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the sweeping broadband privacy rules passed earlier this year. Oracle, which spent years unsuccessfully attempting to prove that Google’s Android code infringes copyright, says the FCC’s recent order on privacy will give Google an unfair advantage against Internet service providers.

Oracle Petitions FCC To Reconsider Broadband Privacy Rules

Software corporation Oracle is asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the sweeping broadband privacy rules passed earlier this year. Oracle, which spent years unsuccessfully attempting to prove that Google’s Android code infringes copyright, says the FCC’s recent order on privacy will give Google an unfair advantage against Internet service providers.