Image source: Google. Continue Reading Below App-install ads have been one of the most successful products for Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) since the company introduced the ad units in October 2012. In April, the company announced that it’s been responsible for 2 billion app installs in those three-and-a-half years. But Google — the Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)...Read More
Software company Apigee Corp. APIC 0.03 % , in the process of being bought by Alphabet Inc. GOOGL 0.22 % ’s Google, said its loss narrowed in the latest period, helped by climbing revenue as it added more customers. Apigee specializes in Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs-which serve as the conduit for automated communication between...Read More
Google, it seems, is very, very interested in knowing where you are at all times. Users have reported battery life issues with the latest Android build, with many pointing the finger at Google Play – Google’s app store – and its persistent, almost obsessive need to check where you are. Amid complaints that Google Play...Read More
If there is one threat to Google Search, it’s that the majority of content created today lives inside social apps like Instagram and Snapchat and can’t easily be indexed to show in search results. And, even when Google does manage to pull in a piece of content from a social network, it’s nearly impossible to extract...Read More
Google is killing Project Ara, it’s modular smartphone concept that aimed to let you ‘upgrade’ your phone piece by piece. In theory, it sounds pretty amazing. In practice, it would have been terrible. Google was trying to gamify upgrades All Killer, No Filler We’re bringing Momentum to New York: our newest event, showcasing only the...Read More
Alphabet Inc.’s Google is killing plans to make a modular phone, according to two people familiar with the project, the end of an ambitious internal program to reinvent smartphones. The company told partners in the past week that it was ending its three-year-old Project Ara, which aimed to develop smartphones with modular, replaceable parts that...Read More
Reuters/Mark Blinch Google is a company of frightening size and scope. The sheer amount of info it has on any given internet user is astounding, and the fact that so many of us are reliant on its apps to function means it should only keep growing. It’s also pretty nerdy. Or at least, that’s the...Read More
reader comments 120 Google Fiber has reportedly fallen “well short” of its goal of signing up 5 million subscribers and may be on the verge of making significant staff cuts. “Last month, Alphabet CEO Larry Page ordered Google Fiber’s chief, Craig Barratt, to halve the size of the Google Fiber team to 500 people,” according to a...Read More
Google is about to deal a small blow to some of the most annoying ads on mobile: pop-ups and interstitials. It’s not a stretch to argue that readers don’t like these ads. So Google is making a call that websites that use pop-ups and interstitials are worse search results and may rank them lower because...Read More
Google has just announced plans to gradually phase out support for Chrome apps on every platform except for Chrome OS. Starting later this year, new Chrome apps will be available only to Chrome OS users and won’t be accessible on Windows, Mac, and Linux. (Existing apps will remain available and can still be updated.) Then,...Read More
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