The site launched out of beta today with $ 1.5 million in funding in hand from Google Ventures (the venture - capital arm
of search giant Google), Crosslink Capital, Innovation Endeavors, and several undisclosed angel investors.
Nest recently rejoined Google proper as part
of the search giant's hardware division, specifically to make it easier for the two companies to work together on integrating AI across Google's entire hardware ecosystem.
Below, you can find links to all of 9to5Google's stories about
each of the search giant's latest and greatest products and services.
As the name suggests, Android Wear is a modified version
of the search giant's existing mobile OS.
Mike Gualtieri, VP at analyst house Forrester, said that while Microsoft offered simpler tools for firms building their own machine - learning models, the quality of the firm's on - demand, pre-trained speech, vision and language recognition services would likely be less effective than Google's because
of the search giant's access to huge amounts of training data.
Namely, users are reportedly still waiting to receive an email that would allow them to pick up one
of the search giant's Google Home Mini devices at no cost.
Namely, users are reportedly still waiting to receive an email that would allow them to pick up one
of the search giant's Google Home Mini devices at no -LSB-...]
The EU competition regulator revived a long - dormant antitrust probe
of the search giant once she took office, and earlier this year, she slapped Google with a record - breaking $ 2.7 billion fine for prioritizing its shopping search service over rivals» offerings.
Believe it or not, the modest 5.2 - incher released a few months ago running Android 7.1.1 Nougat is getting a Google Security Patch bundle dated September 2017 ahead
of the search giant's own Pixels and Nexuses.
Echoing that comment, Li Yanhong, CEO
of search giant Baidu, said that, while blockchain technology is revolutionary, it's still a very early stage, according to China's tech news Leiphone.
Like too many
of the search giant's experimental technologies, this failed to catch on, and we're not sure if there will ever be another Tango - powered commercial product.
Last year, during I / O 2014, Android Wear was a big part
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Say hello to the Google Pixel, a handset ushering in a new era
of the search giant's smartphone range.
There are many speculations regarding the privacy policies
of the search giant.
Zhu, one of the original founders
of the search giant's autonomous car effort, and Ferguson, a lead software engineer, departed Google's car shop along with its chief technology officer, Chris Urmson.
Uber has been under a cloud lately as a result of an internal investigation into a culture of harassment and sexism, as well as a major lawsuit filed by a subsidiary of Google alleging the theft
of the search giant's automated vehicle technology.
Despite the fact that it was first on the scene, Siri does not have access to the same array of information that is at the disposal
of search giant's like Google.
The trimmed down search giant Google's rein was decided to be taken over by Sundar Pichai, following the recent transition
of the search giant into new parent company Alphabet.
Google's new Android Wear commercial — part
of the search giant's «Be together.
In Parker v. Google [pdf] the U.S. District Court decided in favour
of the search giant.
The Wired GC has a terrific series of links about the examination Google experienced by the Securities Exchange Commission, on the eve of the first anniversary
of the search giant's 2004 initial public offering:
The update will bring full Google Assistant integration to the headsets as part
of the search giant's promise to bring Assistant to just about every device on the market.
The above deal is also reminiscent
of the search giant Google acquiring Motorola last year.
Powered by Freebase, the 37 - million strong open database of people, places and things acquired by Google in 2010 and now part
of the search giant's Knowledge Graph, the online dating site connects people based on shared interests.
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 23 - Loveflutter is a new dating site powered by Freebase, the 37 - million strong open database of people, places and things acquired by Google in 2010 and now part
of the search giant's Knowledge Graph.
But despite Google's enthusiasm for the new project, some outside the company are wary
of the search giant's journey into the stratosphere.
The neural network from Google Brain — one
of the search giant's deep - learning teams — is able to perform eight tasks, including image and speech recognition, translation and sentence analysis.
The EU competition regulator revived a long - dormant antitrust probe
of the search giant once she took office, and earlier this year, she slapped Google with a record - breaking $ 2.7 billion fine for prioritizing its shopping search service over rivals» offerings.
Under the terms of the deal, iQIYI, which is an independent subsidiary
of search giant Baidu, will be the first online platform in China to stream the Fox films.
In typical Google - style, the two founders
of the search giant threw an unexpected curve - ball on Monday afternoon.
But Google Ventures, the in - house VC firm
of the search giant, has found perhaps the world's least sophisticated fix for the eternal office productivity issue of meeting creep — a big, plastic alarm clock.
Google Senior VP of Cloud Diane Greene is 40 weeks in to her stint as the ruler
of the search giant's increasingly important enterprise software sales business, and she says that things are going great, except for one small thing.
Entire uncharted realms lie beyond the reach of the crawlers that tirelessly catalogue the web on behalf
of search giants: databases, internet relay chat records, and the raw data behind research papers.
When it brought its service public in May, there were rumours about it being purchased by one
of the search giants.
Not exact matches
Though Google is notoriously secretive about their methods and policies, many experts feel that 2014 will see the
search engine
giant focusing on two elements: 1) great content and 2) the size
of your social media footprint.
The
search giant has been testing the Movidius Myriad first generation chips in its Project Tango computer vision and 3D mapping project and has now gone public with an order
of the second generation product.
Chinese tech
giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition
of the UK's leading travel
search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.
Baidu — Baidu beat forecasts on both the top and bottom lines with its latest earnings, on the strength
of stronger advertising sales for the China - based internet
search giant.
Perhaps the
search giant is actually tempted to follow the example
of older companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm which, as their capacity for product innovation fades, have turned to their patent portfolios as a new revenue stream.
Although the
search giant points out that the definition
of which ads are acceptable comes from an independent industry group called the Coalition for Better Ads, some believe that the default blocking
of certain ads puts too much power in Google's hands.
Google is secretly building a social - gaming startup, part
of its effort to create fledgling companies within the internet -
search giant.
With each algorithm update it announces, the
search engine
giant shows how much
of a preference it gives responsive design.
Chinese
search giant Baidu says customers have tripled their use
of its speech interfaces in the past 18 months.
Du Xiaoman Financial, the online financial services company spun out
of Chinese
search giant Baidu, has raised almost $ 2 billion from investors including the Carlyle Group and TPG.
Speaking on a panel — joined by Google's UK managing director Ronan Harris and Channel 4 CEO David Abraham — at the IPA's Festival
of British Advertising in London on Friday, Sorrell said the
search giant had not done enough to assuage advertiser concerns about the safety
of their brands on its platforms.
When the co-founders
of Appurify sold their app development company to Google and started working for the
search giant in 2014, they were impressed with the company's culture.
An extensive renovation
of a former rubber factory sets the
search giant up for another growth spurt in Canada
But Bing holds on to just a tinyfraction
of the
giant search market in China — less than 1 % — and it faces an uphill battle in attracting more users.
But an analysis
of its first month on the market has critics wondering if the web
search giant should do a little corporate soul -
searching and stay clear
of the hardware business.
After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage
of its dominance in online
searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech
giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion) and raising the prospect
of more.