IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Made by Google is the last consumer electronics launch event by the five Big Tech companies. The post Made by Google 2023: A Recap of Launches From the Event appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 15, 2024

Google has started removing links to California-based news websites over concerns that changes in state legislation will result in tech companies having to pay news outlets for their copyrighted content. The post Google Stops Use of California News Website Links Over Pending Changes in Legislation appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Four years after Google announced Privacy Sandbox, the company will finally begin to test blocking third-party cookies on Chrome. The post Google Will Block Third-Party Cookies for All Chrome Users by the Second Half of 2024 appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 7, 2023

The now limited case will focus primarily on deals Google has made with companies to set its search engine as default. The post Google Gets Relief as Judge Dismisses a Few Antitrust Allegations appeared first on Spiceworks.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 30, 2024

Even as AI and related tech have emerged as the industry’s propellor, the rule of thumb in tech is that companies have to undergo continuous digital transformation to ensure competitiveness. The post May Tech Calendar: RSA Conference, Google I/O, Microsoft Build, Viva Technology And More appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

In a plea for hiring relief, Google has sent the US Department of Labor an urgent appeal to amend US immigration laws to ease the hiring of foreign IT workers. Google’s letter comes as the company races to stay apace in the global arms race for AI market share.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 18, 2024

It was reported earlier this month that the company had become the latest to let go of thousands of workers across multiple divisions, with big reductions in the core engineering, Google Assistant, and hardware teams. Google's sales, YouTube, search, policy, and shopping. Googlers are having a tough time right now.

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TechSpot

MAY 1, 2024

Nine Google employees were arrested last month after occupying the company's offices in New York and California for an eight-hour sit-in. billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government for Google and Amazon's cloud services. They were protesting against the $1.2 Read Entire Article

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IT Toolbox

MAY 2, 2023

The AI wizard took to Twitter to clarify that he doesn’t intend to criticize Google, publicly or otherwise, and that the company “has acted very responsibly.” The post AI Pioneer Dr. Geoffrey Hinton Warns Against AI Haste, Quits Google appeared first on Spiceworks.

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TechSpot

JUNE 22, 2023

After recently doing the same in Europe, Google has now publicly accused Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior over the US cloud market. Mountain View singled out Microsoft in a letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was seeking industry comments about the business practices of cloud computing providers that.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Google attorney Jonathan Kravis denied that the Play Store payment system is monopolistic, and tried to portray Epic as a greedy company that wants to bypass the established commission system to increase its profits. To avoid paying the Play Store commission, Epic had rolled out the Fortnite Android app through. Read Entire Article

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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

MARCH 20, 2024

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini.

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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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TechSpot

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Demis Hassabis, the child prodigy who founded DeepMind, Google is likely to invest more than $100 billion in AI technology and applications in the near future. Google acquired the company in 2014. DeepMind is a British-American research laboratory that has been working on AI since 2010. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reports that a Barcelona company sold spyware exploiting Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Defender vulnerabilities to conduct contract surveillance on target PCs.

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TechSpot

JULY 13, 2022

Insider, citing two senior Google employees, reports that Google managers were informed of the company's hiring slowdown last month. They were instructed by leaders to give back a percentage of their headcount grants for the third quarter.

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TechSpot

MAY 3, 2024

Google introduced support for passkeys in 2022 during World Password Day. Now, the company is revealing how far the authentication technology has come and where it is heading. According to the search giant, passkeys have been used as an authentication measure over 1 billion times, across 400 million-plus Google accounts.

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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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Tech Republic Big Data

JULY 13, 2023

Google's Behshad Behzadi weighs in on how to use generative AI chatbots without compromising company information.

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Venture Beast

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Autonomous vehicle company Nuro has raised $600 million from a slew of high-profile investors, including Tiger Global Management and Google. Read More.

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TechSpot

APRIL 10, 2024

During the Cloud Next event held in Las Vegas, Google unveiled its much-rumored custom CPU. Google Axion is the company's first Arm-based processor specifically designed for data center applications, which is set to bring "industry-leading" performance to cloud customers and web services later this year. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tech major Google has announced that it is replacing Duet AI for Google Workspace with Gemini for Google Workspace as it attempts to offer an alternative to ChatGPT Enterprise. Duet AI for Workspace offered AI integration with Google’s popular applications like Docs and Gmail. Generative AI, Google

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TechSpot

MAY 29, 2023

For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Google has bought North, a company focused on building augmented reality glasses. The companies announced the news earlier today, saying that North’s “technical expertise” will help Google invest in its “hardware efforts and ambient computing future.”. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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Vox

JULY 12, 2023

H&R Block is one of the tax preparation companies accused of sending taxpayer data to Meta and Google. Katie Porter, are coming for tax preparation companies that sent tens, if not hundreds, of millions of taxpayers’ data to Big Tech through those tracking pixels. Elizabeth Warren is coming for the tracking pixels.

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Tech Republic Cloud

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Admins in many organizations that use Google Workspace can now activate and add Duet AI to company accounts by following these steps.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google is buying cybersecurity company Mandiant in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 We look forward to welcoming Mandiant to Google Cloud to further enhance our security operations suite and advisory services, and help customers address their most important security challenges.”.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

were the first to be powered by the company’s Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, as part of a broader cloud infrastructure buildout. Google parent Alphabet reported capital expenditures of $12 billion, up 90%, “driven overwhelmingly by investment in our technical infrastructure,” CFO Ruth Porat told analysts. What about Amazon?

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Google’s office in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Which search engine do you use, and why is it Google? The first big trial of the modern Big Tech antitrust movement is here: On September 12, the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google’s search engine monopoly begins. A judge will soon decide. What’s at stake?

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

A group of Jewish Google employees is calling on the company to increase its support of Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly bombing campaign in Gaza. The request is coming from a new employee resource group which formed last year in response to pro-Zionist sentiment within “Jewglers” — Google’s official Jewish ERG.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 8, 2023

Google provides a regularly updated transparency report regarding web content removal due to copyright violations. Law firms and other organizations can submit a DMCA notice to the company, detailing the infringing URLs. Google can then "delist" these URLs by removing them from its web search results. While the DMCA takedown.

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TechSpot

MARCH 26, 2024

Google started rolling out its Search Generative Experience (SGE) earlier this month. The company boasts that the feature allows users to ask complex and more descriptive questions, with the generative AI providing text summaries of sites and recommendations related to a user's search. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Today, Neverware announced in an FAQ that it’s now part of Google. In its FAQ, Neverware states that it and its CloudReady software are “officially part of Google and the Chrome OS team.”. Google hasn’t said anything of the sort, so that’s just hopeful speculation for now).

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Venture Beast

MARCH 8, 2022

Google has confirmed plans to acquire cybersecurity company Mandiant -- formerly Fireeye -- in a deal worth $5.4 Read More.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO. Read More.

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Tech Republic Cloud

AUGUST 10, 2020

Companies basing their cloud infrastructure on Google's services can expect to see $7.54 in revenue for every $1 spent by 2025.

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