Alphabet, Google‘s parent company, has dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company after a blockbuster quarter fueled by the growth of its digital advertising business. In its first earnings report since spinning off Google’s businesses and creating the new parent company Alphabet, the company announced a $4.9 billion profit — up from $4.7 billion...Read More
A new Google project is testing the use of drones for high-speed Internet delivery. The technology company is currently developing the program, codenamed Project SkyBender, to utilize solar-powered drones equipped with millimeter-wave radio transmitters that could send out next-generation 5G wireless Internet signals, the Guardian reports. Work on the project is ongoing at Spaceport America, a facility...Read More
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google aren’t slashing cloud prices as fast and furious as they did two years ago, but there’s still plenty of smack talk going on. For example, Google goog on Friday took to its cloud blog to proclaim that its cloud computing service is less expensive than comparable Amazon amzn Web Services products....Read More
The company that lets you compare air fares and translate foreign languages online wants to make it easier to weigh the costs and benefits of installing solar panels on household rooftops. Google is rolling out a new online service that quickly tallies up considerations of going solar and whether homeowners should consider buying or leasing...Read More
When Apple revealed that its new operating system for mobile phones, iOS 9, would feature what the company called “content-blocking Safari extensionsâ€, no one really blinked. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, didn’t even detail the feature on stage at the lavish launch for iOS 9 in July. Instead, details of the content-blocking extensions were buried...Read More
Google Now is partly a portal to the main Google search engine, so you can ask the digital assistant anything that you would query Google for: the height of the Eiffel Tower, what six inches is in centimeters or even what’s on your agenda. But the app also integrates with specific features on your phone—here...Read More
Will Alphabet pass Apple in the race to become a trillion dollar company next year? It wasn’t that long ago that many investors assumed Apple (AAPL, Tech30) would get there first. At its peak price earlier this year, Apple had a market value of nearly $775 billion. Alphabet, which I’m now going to refer to...Read More
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Google’s self-driving car prototype would, in finished form, have neither a steering wheel or pedals.(Photo: Tony Avelar, AP) SAN FRANCISCO – Google’s self-driving car chief is adamant that the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ draft proposal on autonomous vehicle rules is misguided and threatens to rob key constituents of the benefits of driverless vehicles, including...Read More
As the world’s largest search engine in terms of market share, Google’s “Year In Search†list is a pretty good gauge of the zeitgeist. In 2015, basketball player Lamar Odom, the terrorist attacks in Paris, and action game Agar.io made the list of the most popular queries. (It’s important to note that since Google only...Read More
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