When you want answers fast, chances are you think of Google: What’s the name of Prince’s third album? How tall is the Empire State Building? How long is a flight from San Francisco to New Orleans? That seemingly infinite breadth of knowledge made Google one of the most powerful companies on the planet. Now, the...Read More
Outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, among a series of nondescript warehouses off Route 69, lies a Google campus. Beyond its peculiar location — about 2,000 miles from the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters — the site has all the standard hallmarks. There are polka-dotted employee badges, free breakfast and lunch buffets, and the company’s bright logo colors...Read More
The dream for Latin America’s top students: Snag a job at Google or Microsoft. A survey of business and engineering students conducted by Universum, a research and consulting firm, found Google (GOOG) to be the most attractive employer for both majors. Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) came in second.Read More
Malicious software disguised as legitimate apps for Android smartphones and tablets has seized control of more than one million Google accounts since August, according to research from security firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. The apps had innocent-sounding names, such as StopWatch, Perfect Cleaner and WiFi Enhancer. But they exploited known flaws in older versions...Read More
The next time you enter a query into Google’s search engine or consult the company’s map service for directions to a movie theater, remember that a big brain is working behind the scenes to provide relevant search results and make sure you don’t get lost while driving. Well, not a real brain per se, but...Read More
SEOUL South Korea said on Friday it has rejected Google’s latest request for permission to use government mapping data in servers outside the country, citing security issues with North Korea. Google, an Alphabet Inc company, has said it needs to use the data on servers worldwide to enable services that would give walking and driving...Read More
Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are under increased pressure to police what news content can be posted on their platforms, making them reluctant judges of what is misleading, hateful or true. Such moves could alienate users, hurt advertising revenue and fuel a bigger debate on how much influence they should have over…Read More
Google’s approach to software increasingly centers around personalized recommendations and assistance. It will filter your email and surface only the messages you need to see, pop up alerts if your train line goes out of service, and even chat with you about the latest scores and trades from your favorite sports team. Today that same...Read More
As you would expect, the candidates’ names are linked to election-related searches, such as “What will Hillary Clinton do now?” and “How did Donald Trump win?” But even generic search strings like “How did…” and “Why did…” were dominated by the presidential elections. “Why did Hillary concede?” trended, as well as the question that probably...Read More
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