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Google’s next budget phone, the Pixel 4A, is likely just days away from going on sale. The company has posted a teaser on its online store, saying that “the Google just what you’ve been waiting for phone” will be revealed on August 3rd. 9to5Google spotted the page. To unlock the full message, you need to tap the various boxes until the colors match Google’s logo: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and red. Google has also updated some of its social media images (like the header for… Source link

Google is extending its support for Black-owned businesses an update to Google My Business and an announcement of two new initiatives. Businesses in the US with a verified Google My Business profile will be able to add a “Black-owned” attribute for everyone to see. In addition, as part of a $300 million commitment to support underrepresented entrepreneurs, the attribute will be added to Google’s digital skills training programs offered to Black business owners. Through the Google for… Source link

If you have a Google account, you have access to an instant messaging app that doesn’t require a screen name: Google Chat. You don’t even need to go far to find it — Google Chat is built right into your Gmail inbox. Here’s how to use Google Chat in any internet browser on your Mac or PC. Check out the products mentioned in this article: Apple Macbook Pro (From $1,299.00 at Apple) Acer Chromebook 15 (From $179.99 at Walmart) How to use Google Chat First, you need to… Source link

The Google consent management platform (CMP) Funding Choices will finally integrate with the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for passing consent data signals in the supply chain. Google also said Thursday that Funding Choices now includes compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). When traffic is from the EU or from California, Google will serve consent messages (aka pop-ups) that request explicit consent in… Source link

Fitbit Charge 2 Heart Rate & Fitness Wristband. Source: Amazon Google’s $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Alphabet unit Google this month offered not to use Fitbit’s health data to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns. The opening of a full-scale investigation suggests that this is not sufficient. The deal, announced last November, would see… Source link

Google announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. Tech giant first revealed the Curie project last January, alongside two other new cables as first major non-telecom company to build a private international cable.  The cable — named Grace Hopper after the American computer programming pioneer — will provide “better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise… Source link

Google One, the cloud storage service that Google launched back in 2018, will now backup your iOS or Android phone for free with your Google account. The iOS app will be able to backup your photos, videos, contacts and calendar events, consolidating what’s offered by different services like Photos and Drive into one place, Android Authority notes. Meanwhile the Android app, which could already backup a range of files from your phone, will now offer backups without a Google One… Source link

Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. The wife of Scott Hassan, robotics entrepreneur and principal programmer of the Google search engine, is suing Morrison & Foerster for being a “willing architect and facilitator” of Hassan’s scheme to “cheat” her out of millions of dollars after she filed for divorce in 2015. Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: Free access… Source link

Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from home jobs. The increase in searches is directly related COVID-19’s impact on businesses and employment. The purpose of alerting site owners is to make them aware of an opportunity to use remote job structured data markup. Lily Ray shared a screenshot of the email Google is sending out, which reads: “Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google has seen increased job… Source link

Jul 30th 2020 IT MAY BE just 21 years old, but Google is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. As so often in such cases, all seems well on the surface. Every day its search engine handles 6bn requests, YouTube receives 49 years’ worth of video uploads and Gmail processes about 100bn emails. Thanks to its dominance of online advertising, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, made a profit of $34bn last year. Beyond its core operations, it is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI),… Source link