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REDWOOD CITY — Electronic Arts and Google have formed a partnership to launch five EA games on Stadia – Google’s cloud-based gaming platform. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order – the critically acclaimed single-player, third-person action-adventure Star Wars game from Respawn and EA – is scheduled to launch on Stadia by the end of this year. EA SPORTS FIFA and Madden NFL are […]

SUNNYVALE — Google and Major League Baseball (MLB) have agreed on a multi-year deal to upgrade MLB’s business processes and support next-level experiences for baseball fans around the world. Google Cloud will become MLB’s Official Cloud and Cloud Data and Analytics partner, with MLB’s business operations, including Statcast—the automated tool for analyzing player movements and […]

Millions of people around the world use Google Translate, whether in a verbal conversation, or while navigating a menu or reading a webpage online. Translate learns from existing translations, which are most often found on the web. Languages without a lot of web content have traditionally been challenging to translate, but through advancements in machine […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down from their leadership roles at Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The change is effective immediately. Larry Page had been serving as CEO and Sergey Brin as President of Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take over as CEO of Alphabet while […]

Google is one of the Bay Area’s largest employers. It has headquarters in Mountain View and is looking to expand in Sunnvyale and San Jose with more office space. CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will invest $1 billion to create up to 20,000 homes in the region over the next decade. First, over the […]

YouTube said it is partnering with ticketing provider, AXS, to allow music fans the option of quickly purchasing tickets to upcoming shows across the US. Fans watching videos from YouTube Official Artist Channels will now see listings from AXS events included on the video page. Taking the jump to the live experience is easier than […]

Google has unveiled the latest versions of its Pixel smartphones starting at $399. Pixel 3a is designed to fit comfortably in your hand, and includes an OLED display for crisp images and bright colors. It comes in three colors—Just Black, Clearly White, Purple-ish—and two sizes, with prices in the U.S. starting at $399 for the […]

IRVING, TX — McKesson Corporation, the nation’s leading pharmaceutical distributor, announced a technology collaboration with Google Cloud that will advance the development of next-generation applications and products, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and enhanced analytics in support of the company’s strategic growth initiative to transform care delivery and drive profit. As part of […]

Google is getting into the gaming business with its announcement of the Stadia streaming gaming platform. Stadia is a new video game platform, delivering instant access to your favorite games on any type of screen—whether it’s  a TV, laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Google plans to make those games available in resolutions up to […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company is making over $13 billion in investments this year in data centers and offices across the U.S., with major expansions in 14 states. These new investments will lead to hiring of tens of thousands of employees, and enable the creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs in Nebraska, […]

Google is introducing two new apps for Android designed to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people: Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier. An estimate by the World Health Organization projects 900 million people worldwide will have hearing loss. Dimitri Kanevsky is a research scientist at Google who has worked on speech recognition and communications technology for the […]

YouTube TV, launched in 2017 for people looking to cut the cord from cable companies, is now expanding to 95 major markets covering 98% of the nation. The streaming service from YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, costs $40 per month. With this national expansion, YouTube TV is providing complete local affiliate coverage by providing local […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW – Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, released financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. The company reported revenues of $33.7 billion for the third quarter, a 21% increase from a year ago, and net income of $9.19 billion. The stock market drove Alphabet shares down as it expected higher revenues. […]

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced Dr. John Hennessy, chairman of Alphabet Inc. and former president of Stanford University, and pioneer in electrical engineering, has been named the 2018 recipient of SIA’s highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award. SIA presents the Noyce Award annually in recognition of a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry […]