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Authorities in Mountain View were investigating a reported suspicious package Friday morning at Google’s headquarters, according to Mountain View police. The preliminary investigation revealed the package was not dangerous, though the investigation was ongoing, police said. Officers responded to a Google building in the 2000 block of Casey Avenue on the reports of the suspicious package, police said. The Santa Clara County bomb squad was called to the scene. The building… Source link

In the same week that Amazon is holding its big AWS confab, Google is also announcing a move to raise its own enterprise game with Google Cloud. Today the company announced that it is acquiring Actifio, a data management company that helps companies with data continuity to be better prepared in the event of a security breach or other need for disaster recovery. The deal squares Google up as a competitor against the likes of Rubrik, another big player in data continuity. The terms of the… Source link

A Google building in South Lake Union, Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / James Thorne) Google’s footprint in Seattle just keeps on growing. The Alphabet-owned tech giant signed an agreement to purchase land at a car dealership site in Kirkland, Wash., a spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Business Insider and Bloomberg reported the news last week. King County records obtained by GeekWire show a sale of nearly 10 acres of land at 11845 NE 85th St., home of Lee Johnson car… Source link