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To show investors that its cloud unit could compete with Amazon Web Services, Google in recent years signed billion-dollar, long-term deals with multinationals such as Deutsche Bank and Sabre. Google incentivized sales teams to nail those deals by basing a portion of their commissions on the value of the contracts—even if those customers didn’t actually spend the full amount on Google Cloud services. Those days may soon be over. As companies pull back on cloud projects and Google’s… Source link

Google is abandoning plans to pitch bank accounts to its users, marking a retreat from an effort to make the tech giant a bigger name in finance. The Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.66% unit announced almost two years ago that users of its Google Pay digital wallet would be able to sign up for enhanced checking accounts and debit cards at a handful of financial institutions large and small, including Citigroup Inc. … Source link

Google has announced plans to stop using tracking cookies on its Chrome browser by 2022, replacing them with a group profiling system in a move the company says will plot “a course towards a more privacy-friendly web”. The change is significant. Chrome commands some two-thirds of the web browser market. Third-party tracking cookies, meanwhile, underpin much of the targeted advertising industry. And, while Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari have already stopped supporting… Source link