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Google’s Pixel phones have a lot going for them. Juan Garzon / CNET Google Pixel phones are some… Source link

As of June 1, Google has ended its unlimited free storage policy for Google Photos. Sarah Tew/CNET The time has… Source link

LONDON — European Union and British regulators opened dual antitrust investigations Friday into whether Facebook distorts competition in the classified advertising market by using data to compete unfairly against rival services. German officials, meanwhile, began a fresh investigation of Google using stepped up powers to scrutinize digital giants. The multiple investigations represent the latest escalation by European regulators in their battle to rein in the dominance of big American tech… Source link

Alphabet Inc. was worth more than Amazon.com Inc. for the first time in 16 months Friday, as the online-advertising giant’s strong 2021 stock rally continues. Google parent company Alphabet GOOG, +1.96% GOOGL, +1.96% finished Friday’s session with a market value of $1.622 trillion, while Amazon AMZN, +0.60% closed out the day with a $1.616 trillion valuation, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Shares… Source link

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is moving parts of its popular YouTube video service from the advertising company’s internal data center infrastructure to the company’s cloud service, the head of Google’s cloud said. The effort indicates Google is looking inward as it seeks to expand its share of the growing cloud-computing market and become less reliant on advertisements appearing on its web search engine and other properties. Historically, Google… Source link

PHOTO: PixieMe Google Marketing Livestream 2021 featured marketing innovations in lead generation, audience insights, search image ads, customer data privacy and in-app content on YouTube and digital video. “Overall, a lot of these changes are in line with Google’s shift toward improved on-page experiences,” said Salman Aslam, head of marketing at MuchNeeded.  “I’m most interested in how the Google Analytics and reporting updates will play out. The extended modeling should, as… Source link

It was an odd, unanswerable question. Still, it was on the mind of at least one Google user in India. What is the country’s “ugliest” language? For anyone who typed the question into the platform’s search bar recently, its algorithm produced a fact box confident of the answer: a tongue called Kannada, spoken by tens of millions of people in India’s south. Informed of that result, many of them weren’t happy. Several politicians in the state of Karnataka, where most Kannada speakers… Source link

– Courtesy of Google Europe Yesterday, Google for Startups announced the 30 tech businesses receiving grants from its $2million (approximately £1.5million) Black Founders Fund for Black-led tech startups across Europe. With less than 0.25% of venture capital (VC) funding going to Black-led startups in the U.K., and only 38 Black founders receiving venture capital funding in the last 10 years, Google for Startups is helping to level the playing field by helping Black founders… Source link

Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the second time in a month that a big tech company has been forced to make a staffing change in the wake of public outcry over an executive’s previous writing. The subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.  GOOGL, -0.97%   GOOG, -0.69% hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as global lead of diversity strategy and research, a decade after he… Source link