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...
Fossil Group has announced that it is selling $40 million of intellectual property (IP) related to smartwatch technology to Google. As a result of the news, Fossil’s shares jumped about 8 percent on Thursday (January 17), according to CNBC. In recent years, smartwatches have become Fossil’s...
A talent war in New York is heating up with Amazon opening up its second headquarters in the city and Google expanding its presence. According to a report in CNBC, with unemployment at record lows, demand for tech talent and support services — including advertising,...
Excuse the hyperbole, but Google (and other search engines) dodged a bullet this week when it came to privacy regulations that come out of the European Union and then influence other jurisdictions. It’s way too early to call what happened a victory, but months after...
Google has a new solution for those feeling particularly charitable, according to reports. Google Assistant, Google’s proprietary voice-activated AI helper, has added a feature that lets users donate to charities via voice from any smart device using the company’s software. Users can say “Okay Google,...
Toby Cosgrove, an executive advisor to the Google Cloud health care team, believes data and artificial intelligence (AI) have the power to advance the health care system. “As you look at health care, we have got a problem and a curse in the fact that...
A lawsuit against Google was dismissed over the weekend after a U.S. judge said there was a lack of “concrete injuries” suffered by the plaintiffs. According to Reuters, the suit, filed in March 2016, accused Google of breaking Illinois state law by collecting and storing...
Google Payment Lithuania, a unit of Alphabet’s Google, was granted an electronic money institution license by The Board of the Bank of Lithuania. Finextra, citing Google, reported that with the license Google can issue and redeem electronic money and provide payment services. “The end of this...
