Google could pay close to $15 billion to Apple this year in order to retain its dominant search position on Apple products. That report comes from the website Android Central, citing a new research note from Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi. The $15 billion figure comes...
Google is launching an improved protocol to help people better understand how search works so they can find the answers on the web they need, according to a blog post on Google. “Every day, billions of people come to Google to search for questions big and small....
Two of the world’s richest people got a little bit richer in the last few months when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin sold more than $1 billion worth of stock since May, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compiled...
Google is postponing employees’ return to physical offices until October 18, and when people do come back to their desks, COVID-19 vaccinations will be required, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a message to employees on Wednesday (July 28). “Getting vaccinated is one...
The European Union has given Google an eight-week ultimatum to make its travel-related search more transparent or the Silicon Valley technology giant could face consequences, Reuters reported on Monday (July 26), citing regulators from the EU and European Commission (EC). “EU consumers cannot be misled when using...
A new 6,000 seat theater called the YouTube Theater will be built in partnership with Hollywood Park, a report from 9to5Google says. The venue will bill itself as a new “creative oasis” for the Angelenos. It will be a three-story “intimate venue” and will provide...
Third-party cookies got something of a stay of execution with Google announcing in a company blog post that it will be delaying by two years its plan to deprecate third-party cookies by the second quarter of 2022 as “it’s become clear that more time is...
Google Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, which is aimed at phasing out third-party cookies, is being held off until 2023, a year later than originally planned, in order to allow more time to test the initiatives, Chrome’s Privacy Engineering Director Vinay Goel said in a blog post...
Google is permanently closing the doors of its Google for Startups (GFS) Campus in London. That and other such campuses were shuttered due to the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, Google said, it has gone on to serve U.K. startups virtually — despite the crisis. In...
