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Mobile Growth Leads To 24 Percent Ad Revenue Increase For Alphabet
Mobile Growth Leads To 24 Percent Ad Revenue Increase For Alphabet
July 24, 2018  |  Google

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, posted financial results Monday (July 23) that beat analyst expectations, and included a 26 percent year-over-year revenue increase to...

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Facebook’s New Hire Shows It’s Serious About Building Chips
Facebook’s New Hire Shows It’s Serious About Building Chips
July 16, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook has hired Shahriar Rabii to be a vice president and its head of silicon, sending a message that it plans to build its own...

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Alphabet, Apple Interrogated Over Phone Data Privacy
Alphabet, Apple Interrogated Over Phone Data Privacy
July 10, 2018  |  Data

House lawmakers want to know how Apple and Google‘s parent company Alphabet are handling their users’ personal information, including spoken words, email content and location data. According to The...

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Sizzle Fizzle: Last Mile Sizzles, Banks Fizzle And Snapchat Splits The Difference
Sizzle Fizzle: Last Mile Sizzles, Banks Fizzle And Snapchat Splits The Difference
June 09, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Snapchat’s Sizzly Fizzle, or Fizzly Sizzle  Usually in this column the sizzles and the fizzles are pretty distinct. But every so often there’s a player...

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Reports Surface That EU Will Fine Google Big Over Android
Reports Surface That EU Will Fine Google Big Over Android
June 06, 2018  |  Google

After a European Union report gave Alphabet a “negative result” and fine of up to $11 billion for abusing its power through its Android operating...

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Google To Publish Artificial Intelligence Ethical Guidelines
Google To Publish Artificial Intelligence Ethical Guidelines
June 04, 2018  |  Google

Google is set to publish ethical guidelines for its use of artificial intelligence this week, after its decision not to renew a drone contract with...

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Privacy Critic Files GDPR Complaints Against Facebook And Google
Privacy Critic Files GDPR Complaints Against Facebook And Google
May 25, 2018  |  Regulation

As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, Facebook privacy critic Max Schrems has filed four complaints over consent required to use online...

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Yelp Renews Antitrust Complaint Against Google
Yelp Renews Antitrust Complaint Against Google
May 23, 2018  |  Google

Yelp announced that it has renewed a European antitrust complaint against Google. The online reviews company filed a similar complaint in 2014, stating that Google’s local...

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The Big News Out Of I/O
The Big News Out Of I/O
May 09, 2018  |  Google

So, what did we learn this week at Google I/O? As Alphabet kicked off its annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, this week, the...

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