Google officially opened its new mixed-use campus on New York’s Hudson River that includes a two-acre rooftop and public gathering spaces. Photo courtesy of Google As Google employees return to campus life following over two years of remote work, the company has a splashy new office for workers in New York. Google has officially opened a new campus on a Hudson River pier, and it sits on New York’s largest rooftop. The 630,000-square-foot campus, which sits on Pier 57, includes three buildings… Source link
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Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service didn’t stick the landing, and it’s been a rough ride since. But today, at the Google for Games Developer Summit, it feels like Stadia might be moving in a promising direction — one that gives both gamers and game developers a reason to pay attention. And the magic word is “free.” Free demos, free trials, free for developers to offer, and hopefully free of the friction that made Stadia a difficult investment to start. I want to start off… Source link
Read More »This nearly $40 billion tech company has unleashed a secret weapon to attract workers
Zscaler founder and CEO Jay Chaudhry tells Yahoo Finance Live he has been able to hire one-third of his company’s 3,153 workers during the super competitive environment for talent this past year. How is he doing it at the nearly $40 billion market cap cloud security company? The power of the mighty stock option. “It’s higher compensation than it was a year ago. But what attracts employees at Zscaler is also equity. We have done well as a company. Our stock has done well. So employees they… Source link
Read More »Google slashes Stadia’s revenue share to try to attract developers
Google is revising how much of a cut it takes from Stadia games in a bid to try to attract more developers. Starting on October 1st, Google will take 15 percent of sales up to $3 million through the end of 2023. With the change, Google seems to be trying to make its cloud gaming platform a more enticing option for developers — a proposition that has likely become much harder since the company shut down its own in-house studios…. Source link
Read More »El Salvador Wants to Attract Bitcoin Talent. Its Strategy Is Working
El Salvador is becoming a proving ground for Bitcoin’s biggest ideas. “I really see El Salvador as being the Switzerland of Latin America, if this experiment goes successfully,” Ray Youssef, CEO of peer-to-peer crypto exchange Paxful, said over Zoom. On Sept. 7, El Salvador will become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. That could open a new age for the struggling Latin American economy, President Nayib Bukele, the prime mover behind the so-called… Source link
Read More »Google/Amazon’s 3D AR products and WIMI’s 5G + MR head-mounted display products attract industry attention
HONG KONG, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MobiusTrend releases a research report “Google/Amazon’s 3D AR products and WIMI’s 5G + MR head-mounted display products attract industry attention”. In the past two years, giants have begun to scramble to deploy the field of VR/AR. Since last year, domestic and foreign technology giants such as Microsoft, Google, WIMI, and Apple have accelerated their entry into the VR/AR market, and in 2020 will enter a period of intense releases of terminal… Source link
Read More »Google Just Upped Its E-Commerce Game To Attract More Sellers. It’s Still Not Enough To Compete With Amazon.
Google Shopping is sweetening deals to attract more sellers to its Buy On Google platform in another … [+] swipe at Amazon. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) Getty Images As the coronavirus has sent more shoppers online, Google GOOGL , after several failed attempts in the past, is again trying to own a growing share of the e-commerce market. The question is, will it work this time? Google said Thursday it will drop commission fees for… Source link
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