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BREAKING: Eric Schmidt Stepping Down as Chairman of Alphabet

22Dec By NitishNo Comments

News

BREAKING: Eric Schmidt Stepping Down as Chairman of Alphabet

AFP- Google's parent company Alphabet on Thursday announced that Eric Schmidt will step down as chairman, remaining on the board but shifting into a role as a technical advisor. "In recent years, I've been spending a lot of my time on science and technology issues, and philanthropy, and I plan to expand that work," Schmidt said in a release. After ten years as CEO and seven as Executive Chairman, I can’t wait to dive into the latest in science, technology, and philanthropy. I look forward to working with Larry and Sergey on our future here at Alphabet. https://t.co/nVnZqMEHoI— Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) December 21, 2017 Schmidt's stint as executive chairman is to end at a regularly-scheduled board meeting next month, according to Alphabet. Google founders Larry Page ...

Why Is Foosball Table Killing Your Startup?

17Dec By No Comments

BLOGS

Why Is Foosball Table Killing Your Startup?

Start-ups are well known in the world however, if you want to generalize, what are they precisely? We can describe them as small organizations which have just starting their journey. Most of them don't have their own particular investment, however they are financed by a people who have. Due to that, we can often see a start-up without a genuine item, which means it is only beginning to develop. The main issue with start-ups is that they need to start from the scratch. They have made a study, they have tried the market and they trust that their product or service has its place under the sun. The only word we have to focus in the last sentence is "trust”. It is the most important feeling in every person connected to the start-up. Looking for the best people for the job At the ...

Google Crunches Data To Help NASA Find Two New Planets

15Dec By reutersNo Comments

USA

Google Crunches Data To Help NASA Find Two New Planets

Alphabet Inc’s Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis identified two new planets around distant stars, including one that is part of the first star system with as many planets as Earth’s solar system. The research by Google and the University of Texas at Austin that used data from NASA raised the prospects of new insights into the universe by feeding data into computer programs that can churn through information faster and more in-depth than humanly possibly, a technique known as machine learning. In this case, software learned differences between planets and other objects by analyzing thousands of data points, achieving 96 percent accuracy, NASA said at a news conference. The data came from the Kepler telescope which NASA launched into space in 2009 as ...

13Dec By reutersNo Comments

CHINA

Google Launching Artificial Intelligence Research Center In China

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in China to target the country’s local talent, even as the U.S. search firm’s products remain blocked in the country. Google said in a statement the research center is the first of its kind in Asia and will comprise a small team operating out of its existing office in Beijing. Chinese policy makers have voiced strong support for AI research and development in the country, but have imposed increasingly strict rules on foreign firms in the past year, including new censorship restrictions. Google’s search engine is banned in the Chinese market along with its app store, email and cloud storage services. China’s cyber regulators say restrictions on foreign media and internet platforms ...

Hyperlocal Tasks Management App dunzo Bags $12.3M From Google

5Dec By RishabhNo Comments

FUNDING

Hyperlocal Tasks Management App dunzo Bags $12.3M From Google

Alphabet Inc's tech giant Google has led a $12.3 million round in Bangalore based Dunzo Digital Pvt Ltd owned daily tasks management app Dunzo, ET reported. The round also saw participation from its existing investors Blume Ventures and Aspada Investment Advisors, a person familiar with the development told the source. The investment is part of Google's Next Billion Users (NBU) push. The startup, which is present only in Bengaluru right now, plans to expand to other cities across India. "We want to expand to top 5-6 cities by end of 2018 and scale up from 1 lakh transactions a month right now to 1 lakh transactions a day," Biswas told ET. dunzo provides hyper local services like employ its app for an assortment of errands such as pick up food or grocery from that don't have deli...

YouTube To Expand Teams Reviewing Extremist Content

5Dec By reutersNo Comments

News

YouTube To Expand Teams Reviewing Extremist Content

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Monday it plans to add more people next year to review and remove violent or extremist content on the video platform. YouTube is taking stern actions to protect its users against inappropriate content with stricter policies and larger enforcement teams, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a blog post. “We are also taking aggressive action on comments, launching new comment moderation tools and in some cases shutting down comments altogether,” Wojcicki said. The goal is to bring the total number of people across Google working to address content that might violate its policies to over 10,000 in 2018, she said. YouTube last week updated its recommendation feature to spotlight videos users are likely to find the most gratifying, brushing aside concerns ...

Australia To Probe Facebook, Google Over Media Disruption

4Dec By reutersNo Comments

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Australia To Probe Facebook, Google Over Media Disruption

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether U.S. online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of publishers and consumers. Like their rivals globally, Australia’s traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix Inc. The government ordered the probe as part of wider media reforms, amid growing concern for the future of journalism and the quality of news following years of declining profits and newsroom job cuts and the rise of fake news. “We will examine whether platforms are exercising market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of consumers, media content creators...

4Dec By reutersNo Comments

CHINA

Apple’s Tim Cook Says Developers Have Earned $17B From China App Store

Apple Inc’s chief executive Tim Cook said developers using its platform in China number 1.8 million and have earned a total 112 billion yuan ($16.93 billion), representing roughly a quarter of total global App Store earnings. Cook shared the data on Sunday during a speech at China’s top public cyber policy forum, organised by the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC), which oversees internet regulation including censorship. Earlier this year, Apple said that developers had earned roughly $70 billion in total revenue through the store. Apple is facing criticism from local users and rights groups for bowing to pressure from Beijing cyber regulators after it decided to remove hundreds of apps from its Chinese store this year, including messaging apps and virtual private network (VPN)...

Tech Lords Lost A Fortune In Today’s Wipeout

30Nov By RishabhNo Comments

BUSINESS

Tech Lords Lost A Fortune In Today’s Wipeout

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he billionaire founders of the top tech giants- Facebook Inc, Amazon Inc, Netflix and Google's owner Alphabet Inc lost a fortune of $7.6 billion net on Wednesday as the Nasdaq 100 suffered the worst drop in the past three months. Among these the company that suffered the most was Facebook, whose founder Mark fell $2.6 billion alone as per the source Bloomberg. This drop also affected Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that caused him to slip below the $100 billion figure which he recently acquired, breaking Bill Gates record of 1999. The shares of Amazon.com Inc tumbled $2.5 billion off his net worth. The American entertainment company Netflix founder Reed Hastings fell $133 million while multinational conglomerate Alphabet Inc founder Larry Page and Sergey Brin around ...

Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

22Nov By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Google Will Track Your Location Even When You Turn It Off!

We realize that sometimes Android phones track our location to help us book an Uber or provide a better route on maps. But when we don't require GPS we turn location sharing off and think now we're off the grid! Well! That's where you're wrong! Google recently admitted that it is tracking its users even when they turn "location services" off. Or hey! even when they are not using any SIM Card. Can you believe that? Well, that's how they do it. How do they do it! Since the beginning of 2017, Android phones are collecting the addresses of nearby cellular towers, even when we disable the location services. The data hence collected, is sent back to the Google in an encrypted form. With this data, Google has access to all their users' location movements, place where they've been at, w...

Google India’s Sales Hits Billion Dollar This Year

18Nov By PriyankaNo Comments

BUSINESS

Google India’s Sales Hits Billion Dollar This Year

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]oogle India has crossed $1.11 billion dollar sales mark (turnover of Rs 7,208.9 crore) in the year March, 2017. These figures shows a jump of over 22.1% from the previous year's Rs 5,904 crore. Sales has witnessed an expansion of 44% this fiscal as per the report by TOI. Although the local business of Google India grew at half-a-pace this year in comparison to the last. It's rival Facebook however nearly doubled its revenues in the country indicating preference by marketers to advertise on platforms other than Google. Google also provides other Internet related services in India such as cloud based computing, digital payments etc. but the major revenue comes from its adverting sector where it displays ads next to the search results. Although in various sect...

Google, Twitter-Block Porn or Get Blocked

17Nov By RishabhNo Comments

News

Google, Twitter-Block Porn or Get Blocked

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ndonesia has warned Google and Twitter, world's largest social-media providers to block pornographic content in its country of face the blockage. Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and a host of companies have been put on notice by Indonesian Communications Minister Rudiantara, who threatened “all platforms” that if they don’t adhere to government requests to block content, they will be blocked permanently! “The worst case is I will not allow them to be in Indonesia," Rudiantara, who uses one name, said in an interview on Thursday. "We are focusing on content. If you violate content then you are violating rules and laws in Indonesia.” Indonesia's 260 million population, with world's largest Muslim population has grown concerns about the spread of pornography,...