If you get easily hangry and impatient, Google’s new feature that lists restaurant wait times will help you plan around your hunger pangs. The update will arrive to Google search and Maps “soon.” It will show you how long you’ll have to wait to get a seat at a restaurant at any particular hour. Google...Read More
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Justin Sullivan / Getty Staff Google beat expectations on Q3 results, sending the stock popping after hours. The company generated $27.77 billion in revenue, up 24% from a year ago. Despite controversies like fake Russian ads and fake news, the company continues to out perform Google’s parent company Alphabet topped Wall Street’s Q3 financial targets,...Read More
Google is adding a bunch of new games and activities to the Google Assistant today as a way to keep kids entertained. The update, which was previewed earlier this month, includes “more than 50 new games, activities, and stories,” ranging from things like musical chairs and freeze tag to science trivia, Disney-themed games, and original...Read More
Google, Facebook, and other online media have built staggering revenue streams, in part, on the back of insights gleaned from users reading and sharing news articles. Now, Google says it will give news publishers revenue-sharing deals similar to those it grants YouTube personalities and third-party ad hosts – helping them connect with likely subscribers, then...Read More
Google, a company that’s built everything from a search engine to a self-driving car, will now try its hand at a city neighborhood. Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is teaming with Toronto to begin planning a neighborhood designed as a model for urban life in the 21st century....Read More
Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung are all chasing voice-based artificial intelligence with smart digital assistants that you talk to. It’s a future we’ve been promised for years: a computer you can talk to at home, and now the competition to make it a reality is really heating up. While Alexa, Cortana, Bixby, Google Assistant,...Read More
Alphabet’s Google unit later this week will make its shopping service a stand-alone business within Google’s operations and require it to bid against other sites for ad placement at the top of search results, says a person familiar with the company’s plans. The company will make the change to try and satisfy European antitrust regulators...Read More
Image via Google Google says Tez can be used to make “cash-like” payments. Google has launched its first major payments service outside the United States, confirming rumors of a mobile wallet for India called Tez. The service is jumping in with several large international competitors, including WhatsApp, Uber, and Truecaller, who are all seeking to capitalize on India’s big push towards a cashless society with the recent launch of a payments system called UPI. ...Read More
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Google today appealed the record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion USD) antitrust fine levied against it by the European Union back in June over allegations the company promoted its own price comparison services over competitors’. The fine is the largest antitrust penalty in the history of the European Commission, the executive body and antitrust watchdog of...Read More
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