Target is one of Google Cloud’s newest big customers, furthering a trend of major retailers opting to join up with Amazon Web Services’ cloud rivals as they do battle with… Read More
Google parent Alphabet spent a whopping $5.5 billion on capital expenditures in the most recent quarter, nearly doubling that output from a year ago as the company continues to expand… Read More
The European Union has hit Google with a $5 billion fine (€4.3 billion Euro) for forcing manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and other apps on Android devices, a move regulators… Read More
Google took a turn in the cloud doghouse Tuesday afternoon, after several issues forced popular consumer sites like Spotify, Snapchat, and Pokemon Go offline for about 40 minutes. Users started… Read More
When I first saw Google’s new Duplex technology, it was simultaneously thrilling and horrifying. It’s the kind of technological evolution that you initially see as furthering humanity and having the… Read More
Former Intel executive Diane Bryant, who joined Google Cloud just last November to give some executive support to Diane Greene, is leaving the company. Business Insider reported Tuesday that Bryant… Read More
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene was interested in buying GitHub, but she isn’t ready to buy Microsoft’s promise to keep the popular software development platform neutral. Addressing Microsoft’s GitHub deal… Read More
Seattle science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler passed away in 2006, but she’s getting timely good wishes today on what would have been her 71st birthday in the form of a… Read More
Google continues to find itself in some tricky positions as it tries to balance its desire for more cloud computing revenue against growing distrust of the federal government among its… Read More
Details of Google Podcasts, the search giant’s new Android app for listening to audio shows, leaked overnight in advance of its official release, and one feature is especially noteworthy for… Read More
Google announced today that it will invest $550 million in Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com. The deal gives Google a path into the Chinese e-commerce market and does the same for… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — At first glance, the gathering inside Building 99 at Microsoft this week looked like many others inside the company, as technical experts shared hard-earned lessons for using machine… Read More
Cortana is getting serious traction in the enterprise world, according to a new study that predicts Microsoft’s digital assistant will be neck-and-neck with counterparts from Google and Amazon. A new… Read More
Google is beefing up Google Translate with more accurate offline translations in 59 languages. The new feature, offline Neural Machine Translation, takes in to account the context of an entire… Read More
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When Google first promised that it wouldn’t be evil, the world was a simpler place. On Thursday, Google released guidelines for how it would use artificial intelligence technology in its… Read More
Google says it will stop running state and local election ads in Washington state, citing new rules that require what amounts to real-time disclosure of detailed information about election ads… Read More
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed suit against Facebook and Google on Monday, alleging that the tech giants aren’t complying with a state law requiring them to disclose basic… Read More
Google announced Monday morning that its enterprise video calling app, Hangouts Meet, will be capable of connecting directly to competing apps, including Microsoft Skype for Business. In doing so, Google… Read More
Alexa is moving even deeper into Microsoft territory. Amazon’s digital brain and the Google Assistant appear bound for Xbox to control the console via voice commands. Windows Central reports that… Read More
The employees have spoken. Google has decided that it won’t seek additional business related to a controversial artificial intelligence project it signed last year with the Department of Defense, a… Read More
Google outsold Amazon in the competitive smart speaker market for the first time ever in the first quarter, a report from technology research firm Canalys claims. According to the report, Google… Read More
Google and Microsoft both announced updates to their email services and apps recently, offering up a new crop of features and fresh designs. For consumers, the e-mail services are largely… Read More
Gmail is getting smarter. At its big Google I/O developers conference today, Google’s email service unveiled a new feature called Smart Compose that predicts what you’ll type. It uses artificial… Read More
Google has kicked off a new investment program to back early-stage startups building capabilities and devices using the tech giant’s digital assistant, and a Seattle company is among the first… Read More
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Google is taking the lid off its oft-hinted redesign of Gmail, which includes a new look, a host of fresh features, increased security and an injection of artificial intelligence. Gmail… Read More
Operating a modern public cloud is an enormously expensive undertaking. It looks like Google expanded its cloud computing capacity in a big way during its first quarter of the year,… Read More
News brief: Google-parent Alphabet beat Wall Street expectations for its first quarter earnings report, posting $31.2 billion in revenue ($30.4 billion expected), up 26 percent, and earnings per share of… Read More
Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market over the last decade, but it sounds like their special… Read More