Google’s self-driving car fleet has been hitting the roads of both Mountain View, California and Austin, Texas for the past two months — and it has some very eccentric happenings to report. Alongside newer street infrastructure and horizontal traffic signals, Google’s autonomous vehicles have been getting acquainted with the stray renegade granny chasing ducks on...Read More
Google has become so much more than than a white webpage with a text box. We interact with Search, Maps, Android, Gmail, and a dozen other Google products, in countless ways for countless purposes. More than ever, Google is ever-present in our lives. It can be scary, especially when you remember the company knows more about...Read More
Justin Sullivan—Getty Images Google Android Wear director David Singleton announces Androidwear updates during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. There’s now an Android Wear app for Apple’s iPhone Most shoppers aren’t yet convinced they need a smartwatch — but that isn’t stopping Google from stepping up its fight...Read More
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This spring, Google showed the world a radical plan to reshape how we use our phones. A new feature called Now on Tap would surface relevant information within whatever app you happen to have open, sourced from the Web and other apps. It’s a near-magical way for users to avoid tedious app switching, one with...Read More
Fathead When Larry Cunningham published his book on the management lessons of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett, his first book-tour stop last fall was at the Mountain View, Calif. home of Google. More than 100 people showed up, and apparently they listened. Pundits have spent the week debating whether Google’s GOOG, +0.14% GOOGL, +0.15%  plan...Read More
Here’s the multibillion-dollar question of the moment: Does Google’s restructuring signal a huge deal is in the works? In the days following the announcement that Google will become a subsidiary of a new parent company called Alphabet, many have speculated the move was partly motivated by a desire to make big acquisitions—a la Berkshire Hathaway....Read More
Thousands of people flocked to acquire a “.xyz†website name this week following the surprise news that Google is folding itself into Alphabet, a new holding company that has ABC.xyz as its website. These registrants, for the most part, appear to have bought their “xyz†name in good faith. But a few of the new...Read More
The so-called “right to be forgottenâ€, now compressed to RTBF, is climbing back up the news agenda. It all stems, you will recall, from a landmark decision by the European court of justice mandating that European citizens had a right to demand that links to online material about them that was deemed to be misleading or...Read More
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