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What to Look For From GOOGL

Key Takeaways Analysts estimate EPS of $23.12 vs. $16.40 in Q3 FY 2020. Google Cloud revenue is expected to rise YOY. Revenue is expected to increase, but at a decelerating pace compared to last quarter’s exceptionally rapid growth. Google parent Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) has enjoyed exceptionally rapid profit and revenue growth in recent quarters. But amid those gains, the company is facing major antitrust lawsuits that threaten to slow the company’s pace of growth. In the U.S. alone,… Source link

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How to spot Google Ads paid for by political candidates

Using Google ads, candidates can pay to write favorable headlines that show up on Google. Here’s how to spot an ad. WASHINGTON — Political campaigns across the country are spending millions of dollars on Google Ads in an effort to create a positive narrative. In Virginia, both gubernatorial candidates have used the tactic, pouring millions of dollars into the resource.  To better understand how… Source link

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Google Built the Pixel 6 Camera to Better Portray People With Darker Skin Tones. Does It?

Google’s artificial intelligence and machine-learning algorithms have in the past been criticized for how they deal with darker skin tones, including mistakenly tagging photos of Black people as gorillas. The company apologized and said it would fix its software. Now, it’s using AI to power what it calls “the world’s most inclusive camera.” The goal of the Real Tone image processing in Google’s new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones is to “more accurately highlight the nuances… Source link

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Google Pixel 6 Pro review – TechCrunch

You only get so many Hail Mary passes in consumer electronics. Even among the biggest companies. Take a look a Microsoft’s long-standing mobile phone ambitions. Even a $7.2 billion acquisition of the once-dominant Nokia couldn’t buy the company a place at the table with Apple and Samsung. Some earlier false starts aside, Google’s mobile hardware ambitions have been — on the whole — more successful. But the Pixel line has never had the major hit the company needs to justify the… Source link

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Google Pixel 6 Review: Playing Catch-Up With the iPhone

For half a decade, Google, the maker of Android, the world’s most widely used phone software, has had a dream to make a best-selling phone that rivals the gold standard, the iPhone. Google’s Pixel phones have consistently received positive reviews but sell tepidly because of a major weakness: They have relied on off-the-shelf parts from other companies. As a result, they have felt sluggish compared with devices made by Apple, which tightly controls the quality of its iPhones by doing… Source link

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Google pays fines to Russia over banned content

The logo of Russia’s state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, is reflected in a laptop screen showing Google start page, in this picture illustration taken May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/Illustration/File Photo MOSCOW, Oct 25 (Reuters) – U.S. tech giant Google has paid Russia more than 32 million roubles ($455,079) in fines for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the company and a Russian lawmaker said after talks on Monday. Russia last week said it would seek to fine… Source link

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Inside Google Billionaire Eric Schmidt’s $1 Billion Moonshot Plan To Fund The World’s Most Promising Teens

Getty images The former Google CEO and his wife, Wendy, announce the winners of their nearly year-long global competition to find and fund teenagers committed to changing the world. It’s just the beginning. Aryan Sharma is a promising 16-year-old in India. He’s already founded a couple small companies, one focused on education and another aimed at helping working-class Indians find jobs, but he has bigger ideas for ways to merge artificial intelligence and medicine. The… Source link

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Google’s future in enterprise hinges on strategic cybersecurity

Gaps in Google’s cybersecurity strategy make banks, financial institutions, and larger enterprises slow to adopt the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with deals often going to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services instead. It also doesn’t help that GCP has long had the reputation that it is more aligned with developers and their needs than with enterprise and commercial projects. But Google now has a timely opportunity to open its customer aperture with new security offerings… Source link

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