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Google is building a new hardware division under former Motorola chief Rick Osterloh

Rick Osterloh is coming back to Google. The former president of Motorola, who left the Lenovo-led handset maker last month, has been hired by Google to run a new division to unify the company’s disparate hardware projects, Re/code has learned. A Google rep confirmed that Osterloh has joined the company as its newest Senior Vice President, running the...
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Google opposes new privacy protections for set-top boxes

Google is a big fan of the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to open up cable boxes so that any company can tap into TV streams and make a new interface for them. There’s just one little thing that’s bothering Google about the proposal: consumer privacy rules. It thinks the FCC is too concerned with them. Google...
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Report: Google developing ‘Area 120,’ an in-house startup incubator to keep talent from leaving

Google is preparing its own in-house startup incubator, according to a new report from The Information. According to sources, Google will soon launch “Area 120,” which will be helmed by Google executives Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz. Teams within Google must pitch ideas for inclusion in Area 120, just as they would any other incubator....
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Microsoft and Google Agree to Drop Mutual Complaints

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Europe Tried to Rein In Google. It Backfired.

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GoDadddy CTO and cloud VP heads to Google

GoDaddy’s chief technology officer — amid a time when the company is expanding its cloud-computing operations — is departing, according to a regulatory filing. Elissa Murphy will be leaving the company later in May. Her departure comes as GoDaddy has begun building out cloud infrastructure, helping it evolve from a simple hosting service to something more...
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Google Play Music will reportedly launch its podcast section next week

Podcasts are finally coming to Google Play Music, after the service announced it was adding the format back in October. According to an internal NPR email obtained by Android Police, Google has informed the public radio network that the podcasting platform will launch on Monday, April 18th, nearly six months after the initial announcement. “Google will launch...
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Why Apple and Google should be worried about Facebook’s new bots store

Alan Turing fundamentally designed the Pilot ACE computer (above), once the fastest computer in the world, in the 1950s. His legacy is now coming to bear in Silicon Valley (Geoff Caddick/PA) SAN FRANCISCO — In 1950, artificial intelligence pioneer Alan Turing famously proposed what came to be known as the Turing Test: the proposition that a machine...
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Google to Kansas City: Goodbye Free Fiber

Whether you like Google Fiber, already have a great Internet plan, or have no interest in switching over, you have to admit that the free Internet Google offers in some cities is a pretty good deal for those that know to ask about it. It’s also plausible that Google’s free Fiber might have been more...
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New robots from Alphabet’s X (probably!) won’t kill you

The last time a Google robot trounced through the snow in a video, the robot lost its job. This one might have better luck. At a New Economic Summit conference in Tokyo on Friday, the founder of Schaft — one of the robotics companies Google acquired three years ago and moved to its X lab...
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