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Comment on this story Comment Google’s new Bay View campus might best be described as a mash-up of a steel-clad circus tent, a big international airport, and an indoor shopping or entertainment center. The office is complete with droves of natural sunlight, two-story art installments and colorful street signs that adorn each corridor. But are all the bells and whistles enough to get Google workers excited about working at the office again? In April, Google mandated that tens of thousands of… Source link

Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses… that will be $1,400. Ron Amadeo / Hasbro The US Justice Department is gearing up for a possible antitrust lawsuit against Google’s ad business, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal outlines a “concession” Google is proposing in response to the investigation. Google might split up some of its ad business and move it to… Source link

For a second time, Rob Gronkowski is calling it quits. The five-time Pro Bowl and four-time All-Pro tight end known as much for his big personality as his proficiency on the football field announced his retirement from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In college, I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and where the location would be. Every time I had to write about my future, no matter what, I picked being a professional football player. For that assignment though,… Source link

After a year of back-and-forth, Silicon Valley tech executive Marissa Mayer has finally demolished three townhouses she bought next to her Palo Alto home to install a backyard pool. As first reported by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Mayer was legally able to raze the neighboring homes despite a California state law that required any home demolitions to be replaced with equivalent replacement “housing units.” That law was seemingly the reason Mayer’s request was denied… Source link

Google’s eye-catching, 1.1 million-square-foot campus on the edge of the bay is finally complete and open to employees, marking a major expansion of the tech company’s office footprint on the Peninsula. The Bay View campus, located on NASA Ames property off of Moffett Boulevard, will be able to house roughly 4,000 employees across two large and uniquely designed office buildings. The sloped, pavilion-like roofing is clad with large, prismatic glass shingles that generate solar power for the… Source link

Google’s eye-catching, 1.1 million-square-foot campus on the edge of the bay is finally complete and open to employees, marking a major expansion of the tech company’s office footprint on the Peninsula. The Bay View campus, located on NASA Ames property off of Moffett Boulevard, will be able to house roughly 4,000 employees across two large and uniquely designed office buildings. The sloped, pavilion-like roofing is clad with large, prismatic glass shingles that generate solar power for the… Source link

Google executives Michelle Kaufmann and Asim Tahir said the company wanted to design high ceilings, plants and natural light to give the illusion of working outdoors. Jennifer Elias  Google this week is opening its newest campus in Mountain View, California and executives say they aim to make it a place where employees in the company’s advertising division feel more comfortable returning to the office for decades to come. The campus dubbed “Bay View” is located on 42 acres adjacent to NASA’s… Source link

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Having released Za’Darius Smith to help get in compliance with the salary cap and last year’s young backups providing meager contributions with Smith missing most of the season, Eric Edholm went with Purdue’s George Karlaftis with the Green Bay Packers’ first pick in a mock draft at Yahoo. Edholm noted some pertinent Packers history in making the first pick. “With receiver somewhat picked over and a quality pass-rush talent on the board, this is the way we’ll go… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google has added a key piece to the puzzle it is assembling for the land to develop a new transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose. The tech titan has bought a church site at 56 S. Montgomery St. in downtown San Jose, paying about $11.7 million in cash for the property, according to documents filed on May 28 with Santa Clara County officials. Google has been assembling properties and gaining approvals from city officials for a mixed-use neighborhood called Downtown… Source link

Need a new wall? What if it was as quick as blowing up a balloon? How about some privacy? What about a booth? If the office needs a new kitchen, that can be done in minutes too. It’s all part of what may be the office of the future — part pandemic-inspired, part Google trying stuff out. Michelle Kaufman, director of what Google calls “built environment,” gave NBC Bay Area an exclusive tour of several warehouses full of experiments aimed at figuring out the future of the… Source link