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The VPN service that’s included with a Google One Premium subscription is finally available on iPhones after Google’s promise in October 2020 that it would come to iOS. While a Google-run VPN has been available on the platform for months via the Google Fi cell service, today’s update means that anyone who pays for 2TB or more of Google One storage should now also get a VPN for their phone. The VPN is available to people in 18 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Mexico…. Source link

Expectations are running high for Google parent company Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL) as it prepares to release its earnings results for the fiscal fourth quarter. The company has had an exceptional year, having benefited from greater online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are signs that growth is slowing while inflation persists across the economy and market as a whole. Analysts forecast that Alphabet will announce $27.14 in earnings per share to accompany $72.1… Source link

Regular readers will know that I’ve been on a campaign for a few years now to try to make Google Chrome better. I’ve been tweaking settings, streamlining the installation, installing extensions, deleting extensions, and I even paid for a service to try to make it more usable. The results were mixed, to say the least. What I needed was something that basically allowed… Source link

Google has detailed its phased rollout of a new Gmail view that aims to make it easier to navigate across the Gmail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet apps.  The new “integrated view” for Gmail is intended to make it “easy to move between critical applications like Gmail, Chat and Meet in one unified location”, according to Google. ZDNet… Source link

American technology providers are under intense pressure in Europe after a regulator there found Google Analytics’ services illegal. The decision is expected to spur a domino effect that could result in similar restrictions for other U.S. tech providers. The recent ruling means American companies beyond big tech firms will have more difficulties moving data from Europe to the U.S., and could lead to tougher scrutiny from privacy regulators of banks, airlines and other sectors, privacy… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.81% is expected to report another quarter of strong sales growth, capping a year when profits nearly doubled despite mounting regulatory pressure that threatens the search giant’s future. The company’s dominance in online search, video and internet ad sales made it one of last year’s leading beneficiaries of an upswing in digital advertising. Last year, small and large businesses alike flooded into… Source link

Google Tuesday marks the beginning of a new year… Source link

Do you ever have déjà vu? Many Google users may worry they do this week. With Groundhog Day arriving on Wednesday, the search engine giant poked fun at users looking for information on whether a small weather-forecasting mammal in West Central Pennsylvania saw his shadow. Normally, a slightly incorrect spelling on a Google search will lead the site to ask, “Did you mean: _____.” For example, a search for “Best Bill Murrey mvoies” may turn up a result of, “Did you mean: Best Bill… Source link

Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) will report its Q4 earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday. The search giant will likely face fewer headwinds in the online advertising space than social media platforms like Facebook (FB) and Snapchat (SNAP), which have been slammed by changes to Apple’s (AAPL) iOS privacy settings. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting of the company in the quarter, as compiled by Bloomberg, compared to its performance in the same quarter last year. Revenue ex-TAC… Source link

Photo illustration by Nico Heins Welcome to RB’s weekly roundup of the latest in restaurant technology. To get this and other tech news sent right to your inbox every Wednesday, click here. I have written frequently about Google ordering over the past year or so. I thought it would be one of the biggest trends of 2021, and at the end of the year I was a bit surprised that I wasn’t hearing more about it.  The feature added in 2018 allows customers to order from a restaurant within… Source link