Forrester IT

JANUARY 25, 2023

Yesterday, the Justice Department and eight states sued Google, accusing the company of illegally abusing its monopoly on the technology that powers online advertising. According to the Department’s complaint, Google’s dominance enables the company to take at least $0.30

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IT Toolbox

JULY 25, 2023

Companies that volunteered for AI safeguards include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Tech Companies Voluntarily Commit To AI Guardrails appeared first on Spiceworks. The post Seven U.S

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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2024

Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman , the co-founder of DeepMind and a former Google vice president of artificial intelligence, to lead a new organization called Microsoft AI. ” DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014. Suleyman left Google in January 2022.

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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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TechSpot

MARCH 6, 2024

Sweeney called Google's updated Play Store policies "malicious compliance" and accused the company of using "scare screens" and imposing "a new Google Tax on web transactions" to avoid opening up their ecosystem to third-party payment services. According to him, "No gatekeeper should be allowed to impose fees for services not.

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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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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The news comes from The Information, which claims the new tool will be partially based on Microsoft's Bing search engine but will otherwise be similar to Google. While OpenAI hasn't yet confirmed the report, the company has been expanding ChatGPT's web browsing abilities to offer users a more contextual and. Read Entire Article

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 19, 2024

If your company uses Google’s suite of office apps, you’re probably familiar with Google Meet , the vendor’s web-based videoconferencing app. Meet is included with paid Google Workspace plans, and a free version with fewer features is available to anyone with a Google account, such as a Gmail address.

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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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Vox

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images What we learned (and didn’t learn) from the big Google antitrust trial. The Google search antitrust trial is expected to wrap up by Thanksgiving. The Department of Justice is accusing Google of using its monopoly over internet search to freeze out its competitors — real or potential.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2021

The Alphabet Workers Union launched a campaign Tuesday to push Google to allow employees to use their chosen names on ID badges. I was assured [Google] was inclusive, yet when I asked about a badge in my preferred name I was told that my badge had to reflect my legal name,” he says in an interview with The Verge.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) People tell me I don’t have company loyalty. But then I ask which companies have employee loyalty. ” “Moving from Amazon to Microsoft to Google, I jumped between three companies in three years and never looked back,” wrote Alex Nguyen.

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