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Oct 26, 2017, 1:45 PM

Amazon tops 540K employees after swallowing Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

Amazon added a whopping 159,500 employees in the last quarter, pushing its total employment to 541,900 people worldwide, according to… Read More

Oct 18, 2017, 2:31 PM

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

Oct 17, 2017, 1:49 PM

Google reveals plan for ‘smart city’ makeover of Toronto waterfront — is there room left for Amazon’s second HQ?

Sidewalk Labs, a division of Google parent Alphabet Inc., announced plans Tuesday to study a bold redevelopment of the Toronto… Read More

Oct 10, 2017, 9:20 AM

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

Oct 6, 2017, 9:14 AM

Study: Amazon Echo owners love the iPhone, while Google Home keeps it in the Android family

Amazon Echo owners are more likely to be iPhone and iPad fans, while owners of the Google Home smart speaker… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 10:59 AM

Google targets parents and pet owners with new $249 AI-powered, hands-free ‘Clips’ camera

As part of its hardware launch event today, Google unveiled a new camera. Called “Google Clips,” the $249 device is… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 10:52 AM

Google unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones with Always On display and high-powered camera

Google this morning showed off its latest smartphones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, following up on the release… Read More

Oct 4, 2017, 9:38 AM

Google expands smart speaker lineup with $49 Home Mini and $399 Home Max

Google today debuted a pair of smart speakers this morning meant to complement the Google Home, the search giant’s initial… Read More

Sep 26, 2017, 6:35 PM

Google takes YouTube off Amazon’s Echo Show device; Amazon calls it ‘disappointing’

Google and Amazon are having a tiff. The Verge reported Tuesday that Google dropped support for YouTube on the Echo… Read More

Sep 26, 2017, 1:41 PM

Google follows Amazon Web Services in allowing cloud customers to bill by the second

One week after Amazon Web Services announced per-second billing for its cloud customers, Google plans to do the same for… Read More

Sep 25, 2017, 12:01 PM

Review: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s candid book ‘Hit Refresh’ goes inside the tech giant’s revival

This was my litmus test for Satya Nadella’s new book: Does he write about his Grace Hopper debacle? The answer… Read More

Sep 20, 2017, 6:50 AM

HTC to Google? Rumors swirl over possible deal for smartphone pioneer

HTC plans to halt trading of its stock tomorrow to make a “material announcement,” the Taiwan Stock Exchange announced this morning,… Read More

Sep 15, 2017, 9:02 AM

Google, Microsoft emphasize cloud security as hacks intensify and big businesses eye the cloud

Security fears have been associated with cloud computing ever since it began, and for the most part those fears have… Read More

Sep 1, 2017, 8:34 AM

Bezos, Nadella, Cook and other tech leaders call on Trump to preserve ‘Dreamers’ immigration program

Updated below with WTIA statement. Leaders in the technology industry including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple… Read More

Aug 28, 2017, 10:14 AM

Amazon, Microsoft and other tech giants step up to aid tropical storm Harvey rescue efforts

As tropical storm Harvey continues to take its toll on Texas, tech companies from around the nation are pitching in… Read More

Aug 24, 2017, 10:51 AM

Marketo decides to go all-in on cloud computing, and picks Google as its home

One of the bigger marketing software companies, Marketo, has decided it’s ready to ditch its servers and move into the… Read More

Aug 23, 2017, 9:00 AM

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic… Read More

Aug 22, 2017, 9:01 PM

Watch out Amazon: Google and Walmart form e-commerce alliance to battle online retail giant

Google and Walmart are teaming up to take on mutual e-commerce rival Amazon. Starting in late September, customers will be… Read More

Aug 13, 2017, 4:39 PM

Exclusive: Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push

Shwetak Patel has struck again. The University of Washington computer scientist has sold his newest Seattle startup company, Senosis Health, to Google,… Read More

Aug 13, 2017, 7:28 AM

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping… Read More

Aug 8, 2017, 9:20 AM

Even after firing an engineer, Google faces an existential and cultural crisis

Google is one of the most amazing tech companies to emerge from the rubble of the first dot-com bust —… Read More

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O 2017

Jul 24, 2017, 1:26 PM

Alphabet revenue up 21 percent to $26B but profit falls thanks to EU fine

Google parent Alphabet recorded a 21 percent jump in revenue during its second quarter of the year, and even though… Read More

Jul 4, 2017, 9:33 AM

Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 voice skills, more than doubling since beginning of the year

As more and more companies get into the smart speaker game, a new report shows just how much ground they… Read More

Jul 3, 2017, 9:07 AM

UK regulators slap hospital involved in project with Google’s DeepMind over data handling

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research was dealt a minor setback Monday after U.K. regulators ruled a hospital it partnered with… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Jul 1, 2017, 10:39 AM

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Amazon Alexa and Google Home at Best Buy

Jun 28, 2017, 12:01 AM

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