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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Google CEO, Sundar Pichai. REUTERS While Facebook is in the midst of its biggest stock drop ever and is trading at an 18-month low, Google remains near a record and has easily outperformed all of its Big Tech peers over the past year. The difference is Apple. Google and Facebook are the two dominant online ad companies in the U.S. and have been for years. While the companies do very different things and have faced their own unique issues, the… Source link

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they said exert too much market control, particularly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O). The measure, sponsored by Democratic Senators… Source link

Google today announced a new version of Workspace, the company’s productivity service that you probably still refer to as G Suite. With the new — and free — Google Workspace Essentials plan, Google wants to bring more business users onto the platform by offering them the basic Workspace productivity tools — with the exception of Gmail. Until now, in order to use Workspace with a non-Google email address, you had to sign up for the $6/month/user Business Starter account after a… Source link

TCL’s first Google TVs were supposed to be a triumphant flex for the second most popular TV manufacturer in the US. Long known for its easy-to-use Roku TVs, TCL has been trying to push the message that it’s adopting a platform-agnostic approach and will offer sets with software from either Roku or Google. (The company has already released many Android TV models internationally.) So with the latest update to its 6-Series — model name R646 — TCL set out to blend its best TV… Source link

Google Cloud is expected to announce Thursday a deal to provide cloud-computing services to Cleveland-based regional bank, KeyBank National Association, a subsidiary of KeyCorp. Under the agreement, KeyBank will migrate the majority of its products and services to Google’s cloud by 2025. It is the latest in a series of deal announcements from the Alphabet Inc. unit as it works to increase its… Source link

SEOUL, Feb 3 (Reuters) – South Korea’s telecommunications regulator wants better compliance plans from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google before finalising rules for a law banning app store operators from forcing software developers to use their payments systems, officials said on Thursday. South Korea passed the law, an amendment to the Telecommunication Business Act, last year. The rules, due to be drawn up by March 15 and called the enforcement ordinance, will lay out what… Source link

Did you know that Google Maps has a nifty little trick that lets you adjust zoom with just one finger? Because I sure as hell didn’t until yesterday, when a tweet from Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel alerted me to its existence via a years-old YouTube video from 2013. The shortcut is simple: just double-tap the maps interface, but instead of lifting your finger after the second tap (the shortcut for zooming in), you leave it touching the screen. Then a swipe up zooms out, and a swipe down… Source link

Google’s public cloud has been chasing competing services from Amazon and Microsoft for so long, you might think it would be getting winded. But the critical Alphabet division keeps on keeping on, yesterday reporting revenues of more than $5.5 billion for the fourth quarter. That was the good news. The bad news was that Google Cloud accrued operating losses worth $890 million at the same time. It may be hard to understand how a business with a run rate greater than $22 billion is… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register University’s patent covers tech for fixing software code Complaint says Google engineer copied code for Android software (Reuters) – Purdue University’s Purdue Research Foundation has sued Google LLC in Texas federal court, alleging that Android software for eliminating programming errors in smartphones copies… Source link

Tech stocks on the Nasdaq are rising, led by big gains from shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) after the company posted strong earnings and announced a 20-for-1 stock split. The Dow Jones wavered and S&P 500 gained.  The indexes rose yesterday in another choppy day of trading, as markets reacted to earnings. So far, more than 36% of the S&P 500 companies have reported results, with more than 78% topping analyst expectations. Among the companies reporting earnings today… Source link