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Google’s new Pixel 8a smartphone will be available at T-Mobile online and in stores on Tuesday, May 14. New and existing customers can choose from a bevy of offers to score the new Pixel 8a free: Free Google Pixel 8a when adding a line on most plans including all Go5G plans (via 24 monthly bill […]
Google remains the most popular website in the United States according to data for March 24 from research firm Comscore. The rankings are based on Desktop, Mobile, and Social visitors. Google remains in the top spot followed by Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook and Amazon. # Property Unique Visitors/Viewers (000) % Reach 1 Google Sites 278,198 100 […]
MILL VALLEY and SUNNYVALE — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud announced the most significant results of their partnership to date: identifying 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates. The work, which took place over several weeks, has the potential to enable the mapping of the solar system and protect the Earth from collisions, […]
Shares in Google parent company Alphabet surged 10% on Friday and broke the $2 trillion market cap level. The company is now worth $2.15 trillion after shares hit an all-time high following its first quarter earnings announcement. Alphabet also announced it will pay a dividend for the first time ever. The company’s Board of Directors […]
Google Cloud and The Home Depot, the nation’s largest home improvement chain, have announced an extension of their multi-year relationship that will help the company accelerate its technology strategy and help customers complete their home improvement projects more efficiently and affordably. The two companies have collaborated closely since 2015 to innovate retail technology, all to […]
A federal grand jury indicted Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, charging him with four counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with an alleged plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary information related to artificial intelligence (AI) technology. According to the indictment, returned on March 5 and unsealed earlier this week, Ding, 38, […]
NVIDIA, in collaboration with Google, has launched optimizations across all NVIDIA AI platforms for Gemma — Google’s state-of-the-art new lightweight 2 billion– and 7 billion-parameter open language models that can be run anywhere, reducing costs and speeding innovative work for domain-specific use cases. Teams from the companies worked closely together to accelerate the performance of Gemma — built […]
Google Pixel was the big winner in Super Bowl ads for the second year in a row with its ‘Javier in Frame’ spot according to the 20th Kellogg School Super Bowl Advertising Review. The Kellogg School is the business school at Northwestern University. Other brands that earned top marks for their expensive Super Bowl ads […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Shares in Alphabet Inc., the parent of Google, were down almost 5% in after-hours trading following the release of financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023. The tech giant reported fourth-quarter revenues of $86.3 billion, a 13% increase from a year ago. Net income was $20.6 billion […]
A Santa Clara man that works for Google as a software engineer has been charged with murdering his wife. Police found Liren Chen, 27, spattered with blood, in his home, with his wife’s body nearby says the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office. According to LinkedIn, Chen has been employed as a software engineer at Google […]
SUNNYVALE — Google Cloud has released new research that explores how retail decision makers in the United States perceive the value of generative AI, and how they anticipate deploying the technology in 2024. A study commissioned by Google Cloud of 274 U.S. C-suite executives, information technology leads, and business development managers, found that 81% of retail […]
SAN FRANCISCO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced a $700 million multi-state settlement with Google resolving allegations that the company violated state and federal laws by monopolizing the Android smartphone application market. The settlement in State of Utah et al. v. Google LLC provides significant monetary returns to California consumers and includes injunctive terms to open up the markets […]