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Bloomberg Activists Get Their Moment With $21 Billion Toshiba Bid (Bloomberg) — The surprise takeover bid for Toshiba Corp. is a palpable demonstration of the growing influence in corporate Japan of activist investors, who have gone from largely impotent onlookers to kingmakers in the space of just a few years.The offer from CVC Capital Partners, while still in the early stages, comes just weeks after Toshiba Chief Executive Officer Nobuaki Kurumatani lost a landmark shareholder vote, forcing… Source link

Over the past year, Google Cloud has focused its strategy in great part on pursuing media customers undergoing a digital transformation. On Wednesday, Alphabet’s GOOGL, +0.88% GOOG, +0.70% Google Cloud division said it landed its biggest deal yet in Latin America, a seven-year strategic partnership with Brazil’s largest media company, Grupo Globo, a privately-held, multibillion-dollar giant that is in the midst of a… Source link

A new online competition regulator in the U.K. will target the likes of Facebook and Google in the latest push to rein in the power of technology giants in Europe. The Digital Markets Unit, or DMU, was launched by the British government on Wednesday, though its power to levy fines isn’t expected to come until next year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Parliament must approve legislation governing the regulator’s oversight abilities before it has real power to police… Source link

SAN JOSE — Some unassuming properties that Google bought in downtown San Jose near the Shark Tank are poised to provide land to “jump-start” an affordable housing site made possible by the search giant’s transit village. During 2018, in multiple transactions over a span of seven months, Google bought three properties on North Montgomery Street and North Autumn Street. At the time, the transactions raised eyebrows because the properties were outside of the emerging footprint of the… Source link

Google’s release of details for its momentous downtown San Jose transit-oriented housing and commercial development is the best news the city has received since the pandemic hit just over a year ago. The details, unveiled Tuesday, appear to have the blessing of business, labor and community groups — a rare feat in today’s political environment. The fears that COVID-19 would potentially kill part, or all, of the project can be set aside, at least for now. The proposal still needs to… Source link

If marketers can build better customer experiences, if they can find their customers as they pop up in different parts of their buying journey – visiting the website, buying a product in an Instagram story, viewing an ad or seeking customer support. To enable this visibility, LiveRamp built a native connection into Google Cloud Platform. Previously, marketers needed custom integration work and bring LiveRamp into the Google Cloud, and may have needed to negotiate a separate… Source link

Google and Oracle faced off at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 7 in a multibillion-dollar copyright dispute. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg The U.S. Supreme Court dealt Oracle Corp. a brutal defeat on April 5, ruling that Google hadn’t violated Oracle’s copyright when it used its Java programming language to… Source link

Google’s latest Nest Hub is an interesting device. As a smart speaker, it’s fine. That is, it’s not as nice as other options in the same price range, but the sound quality is reasonable for a small speaker with a screen on it. On the other hand, as a screen you can interact with, it’s–well–also fine. Meaning, it’s not great. Its big brother, the  Google Nest Hub Max is more capable–and more importantly, faster. This version is a little slower than what you would hope for in a device you… Source link

Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg Photographer: David Gray/Bloomberg Google’s Android advertising tool is the target of a complaint in France by privacy activist Max Schrems, accusing the tech giant of violating European Union rules by failing to get users’ consent. Google’s software creates an advertising identifier on people’s phones without… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – The latest leak to reveal what Google might be developing has come from the company itself. According to 9to5Google, a new marketing email from Google to Nest users included an image of dark green Pixel Buds. The report suggested these are the yet-to-be-announced Pixel Buds A wireless earbuds. They aren’t part of the existing Pixel Buds lineup, which does include a Quite Mint colour. It’s… Source link