Google announced the launch of its Android One platform on Monday, September 15, targeting the low-end smartphone segment in emerging markets. While newly launched phones are currently available in India, the company plans to roll them out to other developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the coming...Read More
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If you are an early stage startup, Google wants to give you $100,000 in Cloud Platform credits for one year so you can host your applications on its servers (and not on AWS or Azure). This offer is part of Google’s Cloud Platform for Startups initiative, a new program the company’s senior vice president for its...Read More
Google Inc. executives embarked Tuesday on a seven-city tour of European capitals to discuss Europe’s “right to be forgotten,” one of several fronts in which the U.S. search firm faces a mounting political firestorm in Europe. The series of meetings that began in Madrid on Tuesday stem from a surprise decision in Europe’s top court...Read More
Google has agreed to pay at least $19 million to settle complaints over in-app purchases made on its Android app store, in a case similar to ones the Federal Trade Commission brought against Amazon and recently settled with Apple. The settlement will cover in-app purchases made since 2011, when they were first introduced on Google...Read More
Those Google street-map cars roaming the world’s avenues have done more than take pictures. In Chile, they’ve apparently killed a dog. The animal-welfare group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals posted a pair of photos on its PETA Latino blog showing a small, short-haired dog dashing across a street in Santiago, Chile, and then...Read More
Google Inc.’s secretive Calico LLC life-sciences company unveiled a potential $1.5 billion research partnership with drug maker AbbVie Inc., marking the entrance of a potentially big player in developing treatments for age-related diseases. Google has said little about Calico, in which it is the primary investor, since forming the company last year with former Genentech...Read More
I am not a big fan of the EU’s “right to be forgotten,†but it has one silver lining.  I was noodling around with Google’s ever-more-baroque implementation of the principle this weekend, and I discovered that it offers a quick and cheap way to discover just how famous Google thinks you are. To understand how...Read More
Google announced some of the specs behind its secret project to develop drone-delivery services on Thursday. Project Wing, as we all know now, has been two years in the making and recently was tested in Australia, delivering candy and other sundry items to farmers in Queensland. To be sure, it is an exciting announcement: it...Read More
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