Verizon confirmed earlier this week that its Verizon Media division would be sold to Apollo Global Management, only four years after it was founded. The subsidiary includes brands like AOL and Yahoo with all its various offerings. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, but at the cost of $5 billion for the transaction, it’s a fraction of the original purchase price. Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 for $4.4 billion and a year later made a $4.48 billion offer for Yahoo’s core… Source link

While the annual World Password Day event is quickly forgotten (it was May 6 if you missed it), it had one memorable moment courtesy of a seemingly unassuming Google blog post. Mark Risher, Google’s director of product management, identity and user security, wrote about password management. However, he also revealed a move that will suddenly make millions of Gmail accounts way more secure. I’m no fan of the password day thing as awareness of the importance of password hygiene, from… Source link

As we get closer to what all of us hope is the end of the pandemic, companies are faced with a new challenge: how to bring people back to work. It’s not a small thing to consider when and how to get your team back in the office safely–or, whether that’s something you should do at all. That’s exactly the question Google is tackling with a new set of policies rolled out this week in a  blog post by the company’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. Google’s workforce has been almost entirely remote since… Source link

Mother’s Day is this Sunday in the United States, and to celebrate the holiday, Google has brought new features to Assistant. In a press release, the Mountain View company revealed Broadcast is expanding to users in a newly created “Google Family Group”, including their smartphones, and Family Bell is getting more languages. Other new features include more stories, games, and some easter eggs. Starting today, Broadcast will be able to reach you on your Android and iOS devices, not… Source link

Google‘s following Apple again by committing to introduce privacy labels for Android apps in the Play Store next year. Google will show these labels for the app on the Play Store under the new Saftey section. It’ll show you what kind of data the app collects — approximate or exact location, personal information, photos, and storage — and how it plans to use the data. The iPhone maker gave a glimpse of these labels last year at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), and introduced… Source link

Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Thursday’s standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (45-21) 2. Brooklyn Nets (43-24, 2.5 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (42-24, 3 GB) 4. New York Knicks (37-29, 8 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (37-31, 9 GB) 6. Boston Celtics (35-31, 10 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Miami… Source link

SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the Seoul-based early-stage arm of the global investment behemoth. In December, SoftBank Ventures Asia led the financing round for another Chinese robotics startup called KeenOn, which focuses on… Source link

The executive instrumental in making Alphabet’s Google the largest global corporate buyer of renewable energy and the first company of its size to achieve 100% renewable energy for operations is now looking to propel the nation’s fleet vehicles — from buses to long-haul trucks to delivery vans — toward becoming fully electric. Palmer is the new CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company founded in 2018 to develop, own and finance electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the… Source link

Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that held otherwise. The background of the case and the Federal… Source link