Computing, Software & Applications
April 26, 2022
Via: The VergeAfter a record-breaking 2021 with annual revenue of $257 billion — the first time it has gone over $200 billion for a year — Google’s parent company reports in a filing (pdf) that it has started off 2022 with Q1 […]
February 3, 2021
Via: Computer WeeklyGoogle parent Alphabet reported a profit of $41.2bn for the full year 2020 as total sales of advertising soared. The company’s total sales in 2020 reached $182.3bn after its fourth-quarter sales, at $57bn, were 23% higher than the same period […]
April 12, 2016
Via: Venture BeatGoogle today announced the beta launch of Voice Access, an app that will let people use speech recognition to control Android devices. While anyone will presumably be able to use it, it’s designed with specific groups of people in mind […]
Computing, Software & Applications
March 11, 2016
Via: Venture BeatGoogle has smartened up several of its products with a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves training neural networks on lots of data and then having them make predictions about new data. Google Maps, Google Photos, and […]
March 1, 2016
Via: Venture BeatGoogle is getting a wee bit more enterprisey. Today the company announced that it’s beginning to offer 24-by-7 phone and email customer support for Chrome to businesses that aren’t even paying to use Google Apps like Gmail and Docs. The […]
Computing, Software & Applications
November 17, 2015
Via: PopsciIf you’ve got an Android phone, you might be spending more time on the Facebook app soon. According to a report published in the the Wall Street Journal, Google was given permission to begin crawling and indexing the social network’s […]
August 12, 2015
Via: Seth FiegermanThe announcement of Google’s new holding company, Alphabet, initially led to near-universal bafflement among the tech cognoscenti: why would Google, an industry leader, create such upheaval? The most immediate benefit may simply be that CEO Larry Page, who is stepping […]