GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Part of Google’s office footprint at the Kirkland Urban development near Seattle. GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Google’s growth plans east of Seattle appear to be on pause, according to a new report from real estate firm Broderick Group. ” But it said that Google “has opted not to build out that space.”

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Forrester IT

APRIL 19, 2019

On March 7, 2014 I wrote a report called The Clash of the Digital Platforms in which I identified 5 companies that had a unique status in the world of technology, innovation, and overall business. The five companies were (alphabetically) Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In September, the European Commission named the big six gatekeepers that fall under the DMA's purview: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. The three operating systems covered by these companies – Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows – must provide users with browser-choice screens from next year.

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TechSpot

JULY 31, 2020

Alphabet's latest earnings report is in, and it looks like the company registered its first decline in 22 years, mostly as a direct result of Covid-19's impact on advertising spend.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2020

When DeepMind, the artificial intelligence company owned by Google parent Alphabet Inc., The company’s […].

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2024

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene joins Google’s Paco Galanes, Kirkland site lead and engineering director, right, with students working on robotics projects at Finn Hill Middle School in Kirkland, Wash., where students put together robots and were introduced to hands-on STEM tools by Google employee volunteers.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Tinder owner Match Group has settled its antitrust lawsuit with search giant Google. The agreement allows the matchmaking company to process user payments through alternative services rather than the Play Store's payment system. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 10, 2023

The infamous Google Graveyard will soon welcome some new devices the Alphabet company is preparing to kill for good. A message posted on the Google Nest official community is informing users that, thanks to the power of the not-so-infinite cloud, Nest Secure and Dropcam devices will stop working from April.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

A sign inside the Google Cloud campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. billion, with net income of $18.4

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Google CEO Sundar Pichai previews Gemini at Google I/O earlier this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Google started to roll out its long-awaited Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence model Wednesday morning, touting its ability to natively process and reason across different inputs like text, images, video, and code.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

US companies announced 82,307 job cuts in January — more than double the number in December — and layoffs are expanding beyond tech companies and media. About half the companies that have announced layoffs in the first two months of 2024 are in finance and other industries.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft have both announced huge investments in artificial intelligence in Western Europe this week, likely to get ahead of proposed European Union AI regulations likely to be introduced in April.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The idea that Google is struggling could also serve as a useful argument at a time when Big Tech critics like Sen. Amy Klobuchar are pushing antitrust legislation that would target the company. Big companies particularly fail because they stumble internally.”.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Image: Alphabet. Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division that provides internet from floating balloons, according to a post on the blog of Alphabet’s X moonshot division. In the coming months, we’ll begin winding down operations and it will no longer be an Other Bet within Alphabet.”. “In

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Venture Beast

MARCH 10, 2021

Google parent company Alphabet plans to launch an API, Floq, that enables developers to use TPUs for quantum simulation. Read More.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2023

A Google office building in Seattle’s South Lake Union. GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Google parent Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its global workforce, as it becomes the latest tech company to make cuts amid a fears of a slowing economy. in April 2022.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2021

Google workers have announced plans to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all employees and contractors at Google’s parent company. This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,” said Nicki Anselmo, a Google program manager.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, while some cloud players are reaping the benefits of user demand, Google Cloud seems to be failing to cash in on one of the biggest technology opportunities in decades.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 30, 2021

Google parent company Alphabet's X research lab wants to transform the power grid with software. That's not a bad idea. Read More.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance. The announcement comes weeks after workers in the US and Canada launched the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), a minority union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. The movement launched by tech workers at Google and beyond is inspiring.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google today announced the upcoming rollout of an “experimental” conversational AI service, dubbed Bard, after months of OpenAI stealing headlines and capturing buzz with its ChatGPT service. However, Microsoft lifted that restriction after the Google announcement emerged.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Microsoft outlined a series of principles for its development and deployment of artificial intelligence, including a pledge to partner with a “broad array” of companies and other players in the industry. GeekWire has contacted Google for comment on Microsoft’s announcement. Microsoft recently announced $5.6

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

(AppSheet Photo) A former Google employee who just left the tech giant after three years says he witnessed a “gradual decay of a dominant empire” and said the company “has slowly ceased to function.” “There is hope for Google and for my friends who work there, but it will require an intervention.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Alphabet on Tuesday posted lower-than-expected numbers for its third financial quarter, where it fell behind both revenue and profit expectations. While overall revenue growth slowed to 6% in the quarter for Alphabet, Google Cloud grew 38% year-on-year to $6.9 billion, giving the company much needed support.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Japan’s competition regulator has said it is investigating Google’s parent company Alphabet for a suspected violation of the country’s Antimonopoly Act. To read this article in full, please click here

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TechSpot

JANUARY 22, 2021

Project Loon, as it was originally called, started as a research and development project under Google X back in 2011. With it, Google and parent company Alphabet used high-altitude balloons to create makeshift wireless networks to blanket remote regions with Internet access.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The EU’s second-most senior court, the General Court, has upheld a 2017 ruling by the European Commission which found that Google broke antitrust law in how it used its search engine to promote its shopping comparison service and demote those of its rivals. billion ($2.8

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Google Cloud sales in Q4 2020 bolstered a second consecutive record quarter for its parent company, Alphabet. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Alphabet on Tuesday reported a 7% increase in revenue for the quarter ended June driven by the growth in its cloud computing division, Google Cloud. The company posted revenue of $74.6 Net income for the company rose to $18.36 Cloud Computing, Google billion compared to $69.7 billion for the same period last year.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Google-parent Alphabet late on Wednesday let go of hundreds of employees from its recruiting team in continuation of its efforts to operate more efficiently as macroeconomic uncertainty looms. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

Google Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alphabet, has turned profitable at an operating level for the first time ever, despite fears of macroeconomic uncertainty. Google Cloud posted an operating income of $191 million for the quarter ended March, compared with an operating loss of $706 million for the corresponding period last year.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, briefly hit a market cap of $2 trillion. Alphabet’s market cap has just about doubled from $1 trillion since January 2020. In the third quarter of 2021, Alphabet had a record quarter , earning a hefty $65.1 Google Search saw a slight increase in profit, climbing to $37.9

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The drone belonged to Wing, a subsidiary of Google's parent company, Alphabet. On Thursday, a food delivery drone in Australia struck an 11,000-volt power line, caught fire, and cut power to around 2,000 homes and businesses in the area.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The fear of AI has led to big tech companies in the United States forming an AI ethics club.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2021

More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed an open letter demanding Google stop protecting the subjects of harassment complaints. This is a long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment,” the letter reads. The Google Walkout demands are still waiting to be met!”.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

A Google building in South Lake Union, Seattle. Google’s footprint in Seattle just keeps on growing. The Alphabet-owned tech giant signed an agreement to purchase land at a car dealership site in Kirkland, Wash., Google did not provide more details. company first set up shop 16 years ago. It paid $435.7

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Venture Beast

MARCH 23, 2022

Sandbox AQ, the Palo Alto, California-based enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides solutions at the intersection of quantum technology and artificial intelligence (AI), has emerged from Alphabet, Google's parent company, as an independent company. Read More.

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