Tuesday, December 24

Tag: Google

Google Forms Alliance With VMware And Pivotal In Cloud War With Amazon
30Aug By AdityaNo Comments
Tech, USA

Google Forms Alliance With VMware And Pivotal In Cloud War With Amazon

In the cloud wars, Google has teamed up with VMware and Pivotal its $2.8 billion valued spin-off against Amazon. Together they have come up with a solution called Kubernetes, a software project that started out as a way for Google to manage its massive server infrastructure and has since become a go-to tool for modern software developers . (more…)
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The Story of 21-Year-Old Wunderkind, Who Forced Facebook and Google To Fight For Him
29Aug By PriyankaNo Comments
INSPIRATIONAL

The Story of 21-Year-Old Wunderkind, Who Forced Facebook and Google To Fight For Him

Michael Sayman, a 17-yo joined Facebook Inc. as an intern and soon became a full-time engineer by the time he reached 18. Now this Wunderkind is leaving to join Alphabet's Google. By the way he is only 21! At Facebook, Sayman joined as a product manager who helped the social media giant to understand how his generation uses their phones, advised on experimental products for teens and helped executives understand trends. At Google, he’ll be a product manager for Assistant, its voice-based service built on the search engine’s giant database. Google Assistant is a top priority for Sundar Pichai. The Mountain View, California-based company is working to embed the tool across a range of its own products and on other companies’ devices, facing stiff competition from Amazon.com’s Alexa and ...
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Amazon India Doubles Seller Base to 2 lakh, Google Rolls Out Website With Google My Business
14Jun By AnkitaNo Comments
News

Amazon India Doubles Seller Base to 2 lakh, Google Rolls Out Website With Google My Business

E-commerce major Amazon India today said it has doubled the number of merchants on its e- commerce platform to two lakh in less than a year. Amazon.in has crossed the two million seller base mark in just four years of the companys operations in India, Amazon.in said in a statement. It added that the company has doubled the number in less than a year of crossing the one lakh seller count last July. "This fast pace of adoption has come on the back of various unique, India-first innovations like feet on street teams, self-service registration, Chai Cart and Tatkal," the statement said. It added that partnerships with several national and state government bodies also helped in reaching the milestone. Google rolls out Website with Google My Business Google today launched a new...
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Most Apps Share Your Data With Google, Facebook: Study
13Jun By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
ANALYSIS

Most Apps Share Your Data With Google, Facebook: Study

More than 70 per cent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party companies like Google and Facebook, a new study has warned. When people install a new smartphone app, it asks for the users permission before accessing personal information. Some of the information these apps collect are necessary for them to work properly. However, once an app has permission to collect that information, it can share your data with anyone the developer wants to letting third-party companies track where you are, how fast you are moving and what you are doing, researchers said. Researchers from the IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain wanted to know how much data could potentially be collected without users knowledge, and to give users more control over their data. "To get a pictu...
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Google Linking Online and Offline Worlds in New Ad Challenge
1Jun By Ankita SinghNo Comments
News

Google Linking Online and Offline Worlds in New Ad Challenge

SAN FRANCISCO: Google is testing a way to tie online ads to brick-and-mortar store purchases, a move whetting marketing appetites while fueling privacy worries. A product called “Google Attribution” was unveiled at a marketing conference this month in San Francisco by the Internet giant. Google has long been able to determine when users click on an ads and make a purchase, but linking online and offline habits takes its analytics a step further. Google senior vice president Sridhar Ramaswamy, who announced that Attribution is in test mode with a limited number of partners and will be rolled out to more advertisers in coming weeks, touted the tool as being able to answer the long-challenging question of whether marketing campaigns are working. “Google Attribution makes it possible ...
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Google’s Search For Non-ad Revenue Puts Spotlight on Cloud & Pixel
1May By reutersNo Comments
News

Google’s Search For Non-ad Revenue Puts Spotlight on Cloud & Pixel

Alphabet's non-advertising business, which houses its cloud unit, Pixel smartphones and the Play store, has long been sandwiched between Google's advertising juggernaut and its moonshot ventures that have captured popular imagination. Not any more. The business, categorized as "Other Revenue" in its earnings report, posted a 49.4% jump in revenue to $3.10 billion on Thursday - a sum already bigger than Twitter's annual revenue. The business now represents about 13% of Alphabet's total revenue, compared with 10% a year earlier. That may not be a big jump but definitely shines a light on Google's efforts to cut down its dependence on revenue from advertising, where it competes with Facebook. "(Google) is doing a good job, a much better job in diversifying revenue than Facebook is...
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received Nearly $200 Million Compensation in 2016
29Apr By AdityaNo Comments
News

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Received Nearly $200 Million Compensation in 2016

Google's 44-year-old India-born CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly USD 200 million in compensation last year, double the amount he got in 2015. Pichai received a salary of USD 650,000 last year, slightly less than the USD 652,500 he earned in 2015. But the long-time Google employee, who was named CEO during the company's re-organisation in August 2015, received a stock award of USD 198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock award of USD 99.8 million. The company's compensation committee attributed the lavish pay to Pichai's promotion to CEO and "numerous successful product launches", the CNN reported. Larry Page, Google's co-founder and previous CEO, shifted his focus to growing new businesses under the Alphabet umbrella. Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from ...
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Google Expanded Support For Nine More Indian Languages
28Apr By PriyankaNo Comments
INDIA

Google Expanded Support For Nine More Indian Languages

Google has expanded support for nine more Indian languages, including Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada, across various products to ensure more people can access Internet in a language of their choice. Powered by 'neural machine translation', users will be able to translate between English and nine widely-used Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam and Kannada. The new technology translates full sentences instead of doing it in pieces and therefore, offers better quality translation. The new translation capability will be available for Google Search and Maps -- both on mobile and desktop. "India today has 234 million Indian Language users who are online, compared to 175 million English web users. We expect another 300 mill...
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YouTube Go Now Available in Beta, an ‘Offline-First’ App for India
5Apr By reutersNo Comments
News

YouTube Go Now Available in Beta, an ‘Offline-First’ App for India

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday it would roll out a mobile YouTube application designed for India, boosting the search company's presence in a burgeoning market with spotty Internet access. Since the fall, Google has been conducting extensive tests in India of YouTube Go, which allows users to save videos to watch offline and monitor their data use. A beta version of the app has been released in the Google Play Store in India, and will be released in other emerging markets later, company executives said in an interview. Analysts have been forecasting a surge in video consumption in India since Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries Ltd, upended the industry last year with cheap data plans that have prodded rivals to lower prices. Silicon Valley has long regarded In...
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