Google.org, the charitable arm of the amorphous search engine, launched a $25 million grant program on International Women’s Day to provide funding and Google expertise to nonprofits and social enterprises creating pathways for women and girls. It is called the $25 million Google.org Impact Challenge for Women and Girls. Google is also providing $6 million in Ad Grants to UN Women to help raise awareness about the outsized impact COVID-19 has on women and girls, and a… Source link
Read More »Pittsburgh moves to cloud-based services powered by Google – TribLIVE
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Read More »Square Financial Services Begins Banking Operations
Today, Square, Inc. announced its industrial bank, Square Financial Services, has begun operations after completing the charter approval process with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions. Square Financial Services is an independently governed subsidiary of Square, Inc. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, its primary purpose will be to offer business loan and deposit products, beginning with underwriting and originating business… Source link
Read More »BBVA and Google Cloud Form Strategic Partnership to Drive Security Innovation in Financial Services
MADRID and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BBVA and Google Cloud today announced a new strategic partnership to transform the bank’s security strategy by optimizing and improving its security infrastructure. As part of this global agreement, BBVA will collaborate with Google Cloud in the development of groundbreaking new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models to predict and prevent cyberattacks against its banking infrastructure, providing a more… Source link
Read More »Ford (F), Google Team Up for Cloud Services, Vehicle Connectivity
Ford F recently entered into a six-year partnership with Alphabet GOOGL owned Google, that will make the tech giant responsible for reinventing the connected vehicle experience aimed at accelerating the automaker’s current $11-billion restructuring plan. Highlights of the Partnership The alliance, effective 2023, will revolutionize virtually every element of the automotive business, from the way vehicles are designed, engineered and assembled to the way customers shop and then experience… Source link
Read More »Ford, Google join hands to offer cloud-based data services
TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 8% Dividend Yield Let’s talk portfolio defense. After last week’s social flash mob market manipulation, that’s a topic that should not be ignored. Now, this is not to say that the markets are collapsing. After 2% losses to close out last week’s Friday session, this week’s trading kicked off with a positive tone, as the S&P 500 rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq climbed 2%. The underlying bullish factors – a more stable political scene, steadily… Source link
Read More »The Honor V40 will reportedly be the first to arrive with Google Play Services since Huawei ban
Honor was expected to announce its new V40 5G flagship on January 18, but the announcement date was pushed back to January 22. The company claimed that it had venue scheduling and equipment issues for as cause of the delay, but some speculation leads to believe that Honor could have postponed the event so it could ship the devices with Google Play Services out of the box. This is according to insiders that told Lenta RU. Since the Huawei US ban from May of 2019, the phone maker would not… Source link
Read More »Google to cut off other Chromium-based browsers from access to services such as Sync
Google plans to revoke others’ Chromium-based browsers’ access to a long list of APIs that power such popular services as bookmark and settings synchronization. “We discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome Sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google’s use,” Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled “our… Source link
Read More »Honor is working on a new line of smartphones with Google Services
Huawei has been a bargaining chip in the US-Sino trade war since mid-2019 and as such has been dragging its Honor brand along. The Shenzhen-based company finally sold the division, leaving it to flourish on its own and allowing it to trade with US companies, including Google. According to Kommersant, a reputable Russian newspaper, Honor is working on a new line of smartphones that can run Google Services. An insider revealed that the split from Huawei means AppGallery will be available… Source link
Read More »Google Sets Record Straight About Misleading Attack On Ad Services
TipRanks These 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Are Top Picks for 2021, Say Analysts Some traditions are too time-honored to shirk, and on Wall Street, the annual ‘top picks’ are one. Usually made at the very end or very beginning of a year, the Street’s analysts publish reviews on the stocks they believe will show the best performance in coming months – their top picks. The analysts have been analyzing each stock carefully, looking at its past and current performance, its trends on a variety… Source link
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