The past week in big tech criticism has been centered around Amazon’s pull out of New York for its HQ2 after local complaints over tax breaks. A new report today looks at Google’s use of non-disclosure agreements when building out data centers around the U.S. As a services company that offers everything from search to...Read More
Want a job at Google? Google plans to hire tens of thousands of employees across the U.S. this year, through investments in new data centers and offices. CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google’s plans in a blog post Wednesday. According to Pichai, Google’s investment of more than $13 billion in 2019 will lead to major expansion...Read More
Google’s first commercial for Super Bowl 2019 was focussed on Translate, and the second of the evening is about Job Search for Veterans. A part of the company’s Grow with Google initiative, veterans and other U.S. service member can quickly find jobs by entering their military occupational specialty codes. Grow with Google is aimed at...Read More
“Grow with Google” launched in 2017 to teach digital skills and bring jobs opportunities across America ahead of automation. The $1 billion Google.org grant last year announced that it’s expanding to U.S. libraries with the first partnership kicking off today. Since launch, Google has been partnering with local organizations to teach digital skills to job...Read More
The Google Feed last year was rebranded to Google Discover with new features and availability on the mobile web. Along with the new name, it includes more types of content, including AMP Stories. Google Discover is now surfacing Posts on Google. Posts on Google allow brands to publish messages, images, videos, and GIFs directly in...Read More
Alphabet Inc.’s Google received a hefty fine of $56.8 million from France’s privacy regulator, which used its new powers to levy much higher penalties for the first time under European Union data protection rules. France’s data authority CNIL said the amount of the fine was “justified by the severity of the infringements observed regarding the...Read More
As a more compact Google Assistant is rolling out, the latest Google app beta suggests that more features are in development. Version 9.5 reveals that a dark mode is in the works for Assistant, as well as additional functionality for the Updates feed. About APK Insight: In this ‘APK Insight’ post, we’ve decompiled the latest...Read More
2017 was the year of Alexa with the Amazon assistant passing 10 million unit sales in the year as a whole. 2018 saw Google Home rising and rising with it was Google Voice Assistant App – the technology powering million of Google Home devices around the globe. And soon, in just a matter of 2...Read More
Contract workers at Google are asking CEO Sundar Pichai for equal treatment, dignity, and some respect. On Wednesday, a group of workers known as TVCs (temporary, vendor, and contract workers), sent a scathing letter to Pichai, accusing the tech company of creating a segregated workforce, in which contract workers get paid less and get far...Read More
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