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Wyclef Jean has seen up close the devastation that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Black-owned businesses. The three-time Grammy Award–winning musician and founding member of acclaimed hip-hop group the Fugees said that his friends, Medjine and John “Jube” Altino, struggled to keep their business, Vibez Juice & Vegan Cafe in Jersey City, NJ afloat. “[The business] started off real well and then COVID-19 hit and they were not prepared,” he told AdExchanger. “The first… Source link

Google has around 400 games on the way for its Stadia game streaming service, according to Jack Buser, the service’s director of games. Buser gave the figure in an interview with MobileSyrup, where he said that the company has “a roadmap of about 400 games in development from 200 developers” for the service. Buser stopped short of giving specific information on individual games but said that most would be arriving in 2021 and beyond. This list of Stadia games maintained by Android… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Cyber security expert Dave Hatter warns of Google map data collection  WKRC TV Cincinnati Source link

Having a Google My Business (GMB) profile is one of the best ways to get attention for your local business and boost your rankings. With so many features, working with GMB can get overwhelming. One feature worth using: Google My Business Posts. Posts give you the ability to promote your brand, services, products, events, and offers. GMB posts are displayed at the bottom of your Google My Business Knowledge Panel and are a great way to show off what your business has to offer. Get Familiar with… Source link

The tech giant has been working on adding numerous functionalities to the Phone app. Google Call: Apparently, Google has now rebranded its default phone app, and has renamed it to Google Call. The change has surfaced via an ad on YouTube, but it cannot be downloaded at the moment. This is an addition to Google’s app rebranding and makeover exercise which has been taking place for sometime now. With this change, the app’s logo would be changed and it would have the four signature colours… Source link

The biggest U.S. tech companies are providing a jolt to the slumbering commercial real-estate business, emerging as major tenants and acquirers of office and other space while many nontech firms are trying to tear up their leases. Five of the biggest property owners in the tech industry—Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp.—together occupy around 589 million square feet of U.S. real estate, according to CoStar Group. That is… Source link

Illustration: Joren Cull for Bloomberg Businessweek Illustration: Joren Cull for Bloomberg Businessweek After the government sued Google as a monopolist, Mozilla Corp., you’d think, might have celebrated. Mozilla makes Firefox, a web browser that Google undercut by using massive… Source link

As first reported by 9to5Google, a new app is being tested in a closed beta. The Google-made app is called “Task Mate” and it’s kind of like Google Opinion Rewards, but a bit more involved. Basically, Google Opinion rewards will passively ask question based on recent purchases, or the use of recent Google products like Gmail, Google Assistant, and YouTube. In exchange for answering these questions, you’re rewarded Google Play credit that can be used towards Play Store apps or… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Google announced it partnered with Disney to offer a new AR app starring The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda (aka The Child). Players interact with the characters in AR and can capture and share scenes from the app.  Called The Mandalorian AR Experience, the app is built on ARCore,… Source link

By Diane Bartz, Paresh Dave WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter, potentially beating a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a different group of states led by Texas. FILE PHOTO: AfGoogle sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake The pending legal actions follow an antitrust lawsuit… Source link