It’s pretty clear why Google opted not to announce this news on Monday, along with those new Gmail additions. When the company first mentioned at I/O that musician John Legend’s voice would be coming to Assistant, honestly, we weren’t sure if the company was joking. Today, however, that feature becomes as reality — if you...Read More
The existence of the Dragonfly review committees has not been disclosed to rank-and-file Google employees, except for the few who have been evaluated by the committees because they worked on China search. Fewer than a dozen top managers at the company are said to be looped in on the review, which has involved studying documents...Read More
“Everything we do in this space tends to be open-sourced learnings. Our business models are not attached to these efforts. There’s no requirement in any of these experiments that the partners use Google advertising tools.” — Richard Gingras, VP of news, Google Details: The first effort within the new Local Experiments Project will be ‘The...Read More
<!– –> SEARCH QUOTES Tech Pinterest on Friday released its IPO prospectus, and the document shows just how much leverage Facebook and Google hold over internet companies. Like many websites and apps, Pinterest allows users to sign into its service using their Facebook and Google credentials. The company relies on traffic from Google’s search engine...Read More
About the author Mark Wilson is a senior writer at Fast Company. He started Philanthroper.com, a simple way to give back every day More Article source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90322103/a-eulogy-for-every-product-google-has-ruthlessly-killed-145-and-countingRead More
The different rulings haven’t had a big impact on Google’s financial health — Alphabet’s revenue last year was $137 billion — but they have forced the tech giant to adjust some business practices. After the Android ruling last year, Google began charging handset makers to pre-install Gmail, Google Maps and other popular applications for Android...Read More
Google is making a big play in gaming next week, but we’re still unsure exactly what that entails. For years, the company has toyed with the idea of getting involved in what is now the biggest sector of the entertainment industry, worth an estimated $138 billion dollars as of last fall. And it would make...Read More
Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. “Google Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. We are artists and technologists making immersive stories for mobile 360, mobile VR and room-scale VR headsets, and building the...Read More
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp called for an enforced break-up of Alphabet Inc’s Google Inc , acknowledging the measure would involve global coordination but calling it necessary to preserve advertising and the news media. The demand, published on Tuesday as part of a government inquiry, goes...Read More
Google Home HubCredit: Google Last month I wrote about two small changes would make the Google Assistant a lot more user friendly. Ask and you shall receive. Google just added Continued Conversation to Assistant-powered smart displays. Continued Conversation lets you interact with the Assistant without having to begin every command or request with the “Hey/OK...Read More
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