Google’s Street View program will soon be available as a virtual reality app for its virtual reality headset, Google Cardboard. This latest news, along with sales figures recently unveiled by Google, suggests that the budget […]
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Google Says Their Broadband Balloon Initiative Project Loon Is Nearly Perfect
Google says it is all systems go for its Project Loon balloon-broadband initiative and that it soon hopes to announce its first African operating partners, with India and rural US waiting in the wings. Project […]
Google’s Android Auto Under Fire For Alleged Privacy Invasion
Google is trying to eliminate public fears about its Android Auto platform after a magazine stated that it was an invasion of privacy. The automotive magazine Motor Trend recently published an article that stated that […]
Israel Joins Google’s Lunar X Prize Competition
Israel is the latest entry in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest, bringing the number of teams to 16. Each team is vying to be the first privately funded team to successfully […]
Porsche Snubs Google Android Auto For Apple’s CarPlay
German carmaker Porsche has chosen Apple’s CarPlay over Google’s Android Auto for its new connected car. The distinct choice by Porsche has elicited a lot of curiosity from the auto world, opening a can of […]
Battle Between Newspapers And Google Intensifies In Europe
Traditional print and online media publishers continue their battle against Internet supergiant Google; this time in Brussels. A group of media companies being led by Germany’s Axel Springer, are pushing for changes to Europe’s copyright […]
Alphabet Drops Google’s Iconic Phrase Don’t Be Evil
The newly formed massive corporate conglomerate Alphabet has dropped the infamous catch phrase of “don’t be evil” from its codebook. As of last Friday, Alphabet is the new holding company of major technology company Google. […]
Major Court Ruling Could Immediately Stop Data Transfers Between US And Europe
The European Court of Justice is set to decide whether or not the Safe Harbor agreement will be revoked. The agreement allows companies in Europe to easily transfer personal data to United States without having […]
Apple and Google Top The Interbrand Best Global Brands Report
Despite rapid growth by many global companies over the last year, Apple and Google remain the most valuable brands, according to the annual Interbrand Best Global Brands report released today. This the third year in […]
Check Out Tesla’s Model X SUV
The Model X sport utility vehicle from Tesla is finally going to hit the road, as the five-door SUV will see a limited release to company board members and some of their closest friends. The […]
War Continues Between Streaming Services And Cable/Satellite Companies
It’s another disconnect between cord-cutters and traditional cable/satellite companies. More and more people who presently subscribe to cable and satellite are faced with the annoying requirement to rent their set-top boxes for nine dollars per […]
Google Might Face Major Antitrust Charges In The United States
Google is once again under scrutiny from United States antitrust regulators who are accusing the global giant of having a monopoly. In this case, the technology company is said to be preventing access to its […]
France Rules Google Must Apply ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Requests Worldwide
ln a ruling that may have legal implications on a worldwide scale, France’s data-protection regulator rejected Google’s appeal of its decision to widen and expand Europe’s “right to be forgotten” to all of Google’s websites […]
Google Hires Failed Amazon Design Team To Fix Failed Glass Project
The often maligned Google Glass is having another go at it, with a new name and a more extensive design team. Named “Project Aura,” the team will have as one of its main goals combating […]
Google Continues To Push Away From Search As It Hires NIMH Head To Lead New Life Sciences Unit
Google is continuing its strong effort to break into the healthcare market, as the company is on the verge of hiring the director of the United States National Institute of Mental Health, Tom Insel, to […]
Apple Working On 3D Technology To Close The Maps Gap To Arch Rival Google
Apple, behind rival Google in advanced software offerings, is working hard to develop its own 3D mapping technologies at a mysterious technology facility in Sweden. The facility is located in Lund, in the southern portion […]
Russia Rules Google Is Violating Antitrust Laws
The Russian Commission of Antitrust has ruled that Google has violated Russian antitrust law and recommended that Google “end [the] abuse of its dominant market position”, in what appears to be yet another instance of […]
Google Hires Former Hyundai CEO To Lead Global Push Into Self Driving Cars
Advertising behemoth Google is continuing to show all the signs of a massive push into self-driving vehicles. The latest indication of just how large this project has become, the company has announced that it hired […]
Google’s Secret Plan To Dominate Online Ads Is About Making The Web Radically Faster
Google is hard at work on a way to drop the current load time for websites from seconds down to milliseconds, according to a recent reports. Those few seconds can mean the difference between losing […]
Google’s Plan To Mass Produce Self Driving Cars Is So Successful Its Ahead Of Schedule
Google has announced plans to ramp up production of prototypes of its self driving cars, ahead of previously announced manufacture time lines. Details of the move suggest that Google is firmly on its way to […]
Google Splits Its Wallet App In Two As Competitors Apple, Venmo And Paypal Gain Traction
In an effort to secure its market position in the ever more competitive mobile payments industry, Google has essentially split its Google Wallet app into two apps: a modified Google Wallet and the new Android […]
Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches Personal Digital Assistant To Take On Apple, Google And Microsoft
Baidu, China’s largest search engine, announced to the world that it has launched a new digital assistant similar to that of Google Now and Apple’s Siri. The digital assistant, called Duer, utilizes artificial intelligence to […]
Apple’s Protection Of User Privacy Is Leaving Them Behind In Big Data Apps
Apple is struggling to lure the brightest and the most smart phone tech savvy people to work for them causing the company to lag behind other phone producers in creating innovative smartphone services. Experts say […]
This Week’s Launch Of Apple TV Will Show A Strategy Shift From Streaming Into Gaming
It seems it isn’t just tech heavyweights like Google and Amazon that are making big pushes into the lucrative world of online gaming. According to reports over the weekend smartphone giant Apple will make gaming […]
Google Will Let China Censor Its App Store In Order To Re-Enter The Lucrative Mainland Market
Google is making plans for a comeback presence in China with a version of Google Play that will comply with all Chinese censorship requirements in order to do so. The company famously left China in […]
Google’s Waze Division Accused Of Stealing Data From Competitors
In an interesting intellectual property lawsuit between two mapping services, we get a glimpse of how far companies will go to protect their work. Specifically, the Google-owned app, Waze, which offers information on traffic learned […]
New Google Mapping Project Exposes China’s Deep Pollution Problem
Google will now display pollution reports from across China in collaboration with University of California Berkeley scientists using data from 1,500 sites around the nation. The new online map uses results published last month in […]
Mobcrush, A Company You’ve Never Heard Of, Is Radically Re-Shaping eSports Media
In the video game industry, companies are quickly recognizing the market potential in the ever-increasing popularity of video game live-streams. In hopes of tapping into that market, the leading video-sharing website, YouTube, has launched a […]
Apple Is Not-So-Secretly Working On A Virtual Reality Headset
All signs are indicating smartphone giant Apple will soon announce its serious entry into the immersive 3D technology sector based on industry chatter, patent filing information and the recent hiring of ‘CPU Software and Audio Engineer’, Nick Thompson. […]
Google Partners With Sanofi To Make Major Push Into Healthcare
Google has begun a major search for new ways to manage and treat diabetes under a partnership between its recently re-organized Life Sciences division and French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi. Experts say the partnership was the […]