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On Saturday, Android boss Hiroshi Lockheimer accused Apple of “using peer pressure and bullying as a way to sell products,” after a Wall Street Journal report revealed how US teens have turned Apple’s iMessage into a social status symbol that locks Android users out. Now, Lockheimer is taking a slightly less abrasive stance: the Google executive said Monday that “we’re not asking Apple to make iMessage available on Android. We’re asking Apple to support the industry standard… Source link

In 2019, a group of workers who had recently been fired from Google (GOOGL GOOGLE) filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB, claiming they had been fired for speaking out about the company’s practices, such as signing controversial government contracts, and for engaging in protected labor organizing. Google has maintained that the employees were let go for repeated violations of its policies. But in 2020, the NLRB filed a complaint alleging Google had violated labor laws with two of… Source link

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, has paid $65 million for Enchanted Hill, a prized piece of undeveloped land in Beverly Hills that was owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, according to people familiar with the situation. The deal, which closed in December, marks the end of a more than three-year push to sell the roughly 120-acre property, which came on the market asking $150 million in 2018.  Source link

Google wrongly claimed attorney-client privilege to protect documents subpoenaed in a National Labor Relations Board case filed by former employees who say the company fired them because of their unionization efforts, a labor judge has ruled. The administrative law judge, Paul Bogas, whom the N.L.R.B. appointed as a special master to review the documents, said in a report on Friday that “this broad assertion is, to put it charitably, an overreach.” The ruling is the latest legal blow to… Source link

Google has accused Apple of benefiting from bullying as part of a deliberate strategy to make Android users into second-class citizens on the iPhone-maker’s iMessage service. Apple’s messaging service includes a number of iOS-exclusive features, like Memoji, and famously turns texts from Android users green instead of the iOS-native blue. This has turned iMessage into a status symbol among US teens, creating peer pressure for young people to buy iPhones and sometimes leading to the… Source link

For the past 15 years, since the day Steve Jobs stood on a stage and introduced the world to the iPhone, it has had one major advantage over the competition: Seamless integration with the overall Apple ecosystem. The iPhone, along with everything else Apple makes. just works together in a way that Android (or Windows, for that matter) devices never really do. For example, you can copy and paste from your iPhone to your Mac, or vice versa. Or, you can start reading an article on a website on… Source link

Raise your hand if you’ve wondered what it’s like to work at Google. Here, we’ve tapped three impressive Googlers to learn their tips for getting some of that secret sauce à la Mountain View. Nathan Allen Nathan Allen, 39, started in Google’s New York City office in October 2015 and is now the head of design for stores, sustainability and special projects. To get where he is, he urges college grads to consider meaningful internships, be flexible and… Source link

Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark “A Brief History of Time,” which has sold more than 10 million copies. A Google Doodle, which is a temporary alteration of the search engine’s logo to celebrate special occasions, was created by Matthew Cruickshank in honor of Hawking. “Today’s video Doodle celebrates one of history’s most influential scientific minds, English cosmologist, author,… Source link

Google on Saturday is paying tribute to renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, for what would be his 80th birthday on Earth. Hawking, who died in 2018 at the age of 76, was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark “A Brief… Source link