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Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses

Bloomberg Kushner Cos. Spent the Trump Years Unwinding Scion’s Costly Bets (Bloomberg) — Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant, where Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump partied in late 2016 before heading to Washington, is gone. The office tower at 666 Fifth Ave., once the headquarters of the Kushner family’s real estate empire, has been sold. So too has a stake in a project in the trendy Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.New York looks a lot different now than it did before Jared Kushner left… Source link

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Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing – TechCrunch

For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds, as it might in an on-premise deployment, in a data warehouse, or in a data lake. Today, a startup that has built a more comprehensive way to assess, analyse and use that data is announcing funding as it looks to take on Snowflake, Amazon, Google and others in the area of enterprise… Source link

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Google Doesn’t Read Unsupported Structured Data

Google gets all the information it needs about a page from the page itself, and rarely learns anything unique from structured data, says John Mueller The reason for that is Google only reads the structured data it supports in search results. It’s not a case of site owners not being able to provide additional information with structured data, it’s that Google won’t read it. Mueller discusses this subject during the SEO office-hours live stream held on December 4. A site owner submits a… Source link

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Google Data: Top Holiday Shopping Searches

Google’s holiday shopping guide is now updated to reflect what people are searching this season.  / 4 hours ago / 3 min read Google’s latest guide to holiday shopping trends is now available with insights into top searches and most popular products. The new Google Shopping Gift Guide identifies trending product categories as well as the most sought after gift within those categories. This data can be useful to marketers working on holiday shopping campaigns as it shows… Source link

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Google To Acquire Actifio To Beef Up Google Cloud Data Protection

Google is planning to acquire cloud-focused data protection technology developer Actifio in a move to better protect enterprise workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google, which Wednesday unveiled the planned acquisition in a blog post by Brad Calder, the tech giant’s vice president of engineering, said Actifio will be an important part of protecting data on Google Cloud. “As organizations across industries sharpen their disaster preparedness strategies and infrastructure… Source link

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Google acquires Actifio to step into the area of data management and business continuity – TechCrunch

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

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How to stop Google from tracking your computer and limit its data collection of your online history

You can stop Google from tracking your computer by going to your Google Account page and turning off Web & App Activity and Location Services. Google tracks your activity and location on any device when you’re signed into Google. If you force Google to stop tracking you, you’ll lose Google’s ability to personalize its services based on your web behavior and location. While it may be cliché to say that Google knows everything about you, there’s also a lot of truth to that statement…. Source link

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Google Is Limiting How Chrome Extension Developers Can Use Your Data

Chrome extension developers shouldn’t be able to collect and use your personal data however they see fit. From January, Google is ensuring developers clearly state what data is being collected by an extension while at the same time placing new limits on how it can be used. In a post on the Chromium Blog, Google explains how the developer policy is being updated so as to limit what extension developers can do with the data they collect. Also, the detail page for each Chrome extension must… Source link

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