More Info Find out more For information about Google’s new data processing center in Jackson County, including employment, see www.google.com/jacksoncounty  STEVENSON, Ala. — Goodbye coal. Hello Google. Alabama officials Wednesday welcomed a $600 million plan by Google to build a data processing center as a replacement for a soon-to-be-shuttered coal plant here. Google, the...Read More
When Google tells you hey, heads up, we’re launching an ad-supported version of Google Music tomorrow, you immediately come to a single question: What would Taylor think? Barely 36 hours after Swift’s Tumblr letter went viral, prompting Apple to do an about-face and promise to pay artists during the three-month free trial of Apple Music,...Read More
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos. But that’s not all these brains can do. They can recognize the spoken word, translate from one language to another, target ads, or teach a robot to screw a cap onto a bottle. And...Read More
At the Nest press announcement this morning for its new wireless camera and features, Google had nary a mention. Briefly, Nest noted the imminent collaboration with Google’s new software system, Brillo. That was it. Nest has been adamant that it runs separately from the Mountain View mothership, particularly with its customer data. But tucked in its press release,...Read More
Google’s manual action for Thumbtack’s unnatural links only lasted about a week and now they are back, ranking as well as ever. Last week, Thumbtack’s co-founder confirmed with Search Engine Land they had a manual action issued by Google over unnatural links pointing to their site. But less than a week later, the Google Capital...Read More
Last September, Google inaugurated Android One, a cheap smartphone line for emerging markets, with typical Google audacity: It was billed as the fix “for the next five billion†soon to come online. The initiative, which promised low-cost devices with the latest version of the Android operating system and Google’s full software imprint, was a point of pride...Read More
Where do unicorns hunt executives? Increasingly, they go to Mountain View. On Monday, Re/code reported that Neal Mohan, Google’s VP for display and video advertising, is leaving for the top product job at Dropbox. He is part of a wave of execs departing the search engine in recent months for fast-growing, pre-IPO startups. It’s not...Read More
Last week when Google Photos launched, I quickly tested it out and then wrote a post with my immediate initial reaction to the service. Much of my early disappointment centered around the fact that Google chose to limit the size of photos in the service to 16 megapixels. As a DSLR shooter this meant that...Read More
Chris O’Neill, the business chief for Google Glass, is leaving the position after thirteen months. O’Neill was named head of global business operations at Google X, the company’s moonshot division, in May 2014, the same month Google hired design and marketing exec Ivy Ross as its maiden chief executive. O’Neill is staying at the company, he told Re/code. A Google...Read More
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