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Google Doodle has done it again! As India celebrates Mother’s Day on Sunday, Google has launched an interactive doodle that has a pop-up card to wish all the mothers. Illustrated by Olivia When, the doodle is a heartfelt dedication to all the mothers out there. Google has a tradition of making iconic doodles to mark significant and historic events. In India, Mother’s Day is observed on the second Sunday of May every year. Different countries celebrate… Source link

When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.” This implied that the so-called “Other Bets” in Google’s financial reports — subsidiaries that work on projects ranging from self-driving cars to cancer cures — aren’t just moonshot bids to make the world better, but potential businesses… Source link

Zoom on iPad. David Phelan Zoom has access to a private iPad camera API, a new report claims, which allows the app to use the camera during iPad Split View multitasking. MORE FROM FORBESImportant New iPhone Feature Is A Blockbuster Success, Report SaysBy David Phelan Intriguingly, it seems to mean that only Zoom has access to this feature. Not Google Meet, not Microsoft Teams. In fact, the only other app that can access it is one of Apple’s: FaceTime. Until things change,… Source link

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 15: The new Google Pixel Buds ear pods are displayed during a Google launch … [+] event on October 15, 2019 in New York City. Google’s new ear buds will be released in Spring 2020 and retail for $179. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Google’s next wireless earbuds will be a budget version of 2020’s Pixel Buds. But what features are being cut to bring the price down?   A hastily deleted tweet, from the official Android Twitter… Source link

When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.” This implied that the so-called “Other Bets” in Google’s financial reports — subsidiaries that work on projects ranging from self-driving cars to cancer cures — aren’t just moonshot bids to make the world better, but potential businesses with better-than-average returns. It may be… Source link

Google Photos now stores 4 trillion photos and videos for more than a billion users. Even millions of iPhone, iPad and Mac users prefer it to Apple’s alternative—better search, more features, cheaper storage (at least until June 1). But if you’re among them, Google’s latest data harvesting admission and its continued block on a key Apple privacy measure should serve as a serious warning that it’s now time to switch. After another week where it’s Facebook’s data harvesting… Source link

Bloomberg Key Brexit Clash Would Cost Euro Swap Traders $2.4 Million a Day (Bloomberg) — One of the biggest Brexit battlegrounds between the European Union and the U.K. now has a price tag: at least $2.4 million a day.That’s how much any move by the European Union to cut off access to London’s dominant clearinghouses for derivatives could cost traders in euro interest rate swaps, net of buying, according to an estimate from Albert Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit… Source link