Among the biggest games in eCommerce is, well, games, and that includes subscription streaming services along with the payments that go along with them. And Google wants a bigger piece — making a move that seems similar to a recent announcement from Apple. The search and...
Google has announced that LG, Nokia, Xiaomi, TCL and Vivo will soon launch smartphones with dedicated Google Assistant buttons. “Last year, we took the first step in working with LG to launch a dedicated button for the Google Assistant on its flagship devices to help people get...
To help users follow businesses through the Google Maps iOS app, Google announced a new feature that allows users to monitor updates and news from companies. Users can access the feature, which was only for Android at first, through a “For You” tab on the...
When it comes to the competition for developer mindshare in voice apps, Amazon is well ahead of Google. Amazon recently announced that the number of available voice skills for Alexa devices is now over 80,000, with 56,750 of those skills offered in the U.S. But new analysis...
Amazon and GE may be giving up on New York City and Boston respectively, but Google is taking a different approach, expanding in both cities. According to reports, Google — which already announced plans to expand its Hudson Square space late last year — is investing...
Karan Bhatia, vice president of global public policy and government relations at Google, said there should be common rules when it comes to regulating technology on a global basis. According to a report in CNBC, during a CNBC-hosted panel at the World Government Summit in...
While wearables based on Google’s Wear OS are designed by other companies, that could someday change: The tech company is apparently looking for a vice president of hardware engineering, wearables, VentureBeat reported. The company is reportedly on the lookout for an executive to head up...
Alphabet’s life sciences arm, Verily, has reportedly developed a prototype for a shoe equipped with sensors that can monitor a wearer’s movement and weight, as well as measure falls. The company has been looking for partners to co-develop the shoes, according to CNBC, which cited three sources familiar...
Google has decided to dispute the €50 million fine handed down by French privacy regulators for allegedly failing to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law. Facebook was also named in the same complaint, which was filed by Max Schrems, an Austrian activist who has...
