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Sundar Pichai Led Google Spends $3.2 Million on Television Ads of “Pixel Smartphone”

8Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

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Sundar Pichai Led Google Spends $3.2 Million on Television Ads of “Pixel Smartphone”

Search Engine giants Google's spends $3.2 Million in television ads in two days since it announced the upcoming launch of "Pixel" smartphone. The strategy of Google is to put Pixel in direct competition with the two dominant smartphone makers Apple & Samsung. One of Google ad executives expect Google will spend hundreds of millions more to keep up with rivals. While Google's brand is known around the world, and its Android operating system powers most of the world's smartphones, including Samsung's, it is not known as a consumer goods maker. It has made forays, such as the Chromecast streaming player, but not of this size. Many experts are saying that "This is the first time they are in the position of selling themselves to people, as opposed to selling themselves to brands". ...

Google Launches Digital Voice Assistant, Expecting to Ship Nearly 3 Million Devices in 2017

5Oct By AdityaNo Comments

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Google Launches Digital Voice Assistant, Expecting to Ship Nearly 3 Million Devices in 2017

On Tuesday, Google announced Google Home, its always-listening digital voice assistant device and competitor to Amazon Echo, helping to expand the market for digital voice assistant devices. Strategy Analytics' research indicates that the digital voice assistant device category is one that will grow quickly, with annual shipments totaling 15.1M units by 2020, up from 1.8M units in 2016. At retail, Google Home is expected to sell for $129, which is $50 less than the Amazon Echo. However, Amazon is also offering a pared down version of Echo, the Echo Dot, in packs of six for $250. The low price point is meant to drive adoption by making it affordable for users to put an Alexa device in every room of the house. At such low prices, it's unlikely that either company will turn a profit ...

Google Will Open a New Cloud Region in Mumbai

30Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

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Google Will Open a New Cloud Region in Mumbai

Google will open a new Cloud Region in Mumbai that will help the tech giant offer its cloud platform services to developers and enterprise customers in India. Expected to be live in 2017, the local region in India will help make Google cloud platform services even faster for Indian customers, company said in a statement. The announcement was made at the Horizon event in San Francisco. However, the company did not disclose any financial details. The business-to-business (B2B) based Cloud services have also been re-branded as Google Cloud. With more than one billion end-users, Google Cloud has gained significant traction in India and across the world. Its global customers include Snap Inc (formerly SnapChat), Niantic Labs (Pokemon Go), Telus International, and Evernote, among others...

On its 18th Birthday, Google Launches Service to Take Internet to India Malls, Cafes

27Sep By PriyankaNo Comments

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On its 18th Birthday, Google Launches Service to Take Internet to India Malls, Cafes

On his Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc, said on Tuesday it launched Google Station in India, a service that aims to deepen its reach across the country, as the search giant seeks to bring more people on to its Google platform. Under the service, Google will roll-out Wi-Fi hot spots in places frequented by a large number of people, such as malls and transit stations, and in social hangout locations such as cafes and universities, the company said on Tuesday. "The goal is to give people many hot spots within a few minutes walk from their home, university, or workplace, unified by a simple login process that works across all of them," Caesar Sengupta, Vice-President, Next Billion Users at Google was quoted as saying in the statement. Google currently offers free Wi-Fi access at 53 rai...

Renault-Nissan and Microsoft Partner to Deliver the Future of Connected Driving

27Sep By NitishNo Comments

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Renault-Nissan and Microsoft Partner to Deliver the Future of Connected Driving

Companies sign global, multiyear contract to work on next-generation connected car technologies and driving experiences The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Microsoft Corp. have signed a global, multiyear agreement to partner on next-generation technologies to advance connected driving experiences worldwide. The companies will work together to develop next-generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure, one of the company's intelligent cloud offerings. These new services will improve customer experience via advanced navigation, predictive maintenance and vehicle centric services, remote monitoring of car features, external mobile experiences and over-the-air updates. "A car is becoming increasingly connected, intelligent and personal," said Ogi Redzic, Renault-Nissan...

Google Launches Its own Messaging App Allo

21Sep By AdityaNo Comments

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Google Launches Its own Messaging App Allo

Search engine giant Google has launched its AI based messaging app Allo, which would compete with the likes of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Available for both Android and iOS platforms, Allo will also mark the debut of Google Assistant in a preview edition. "Whether it is planning a night out or just catching up, we rely on messaging to stay in touch with friends and family every day. But too often we have to hit pause on our conversation ? whether it is to check the status of a flight or look up that new restaurant. So we created Allo, a messaging app that helps you keep your conversation going, by providing assistance when you need it," Google Group Product Manager Amit Fulay said. Powered with artificial intelligence, Allo packs in features including smart reply, options for sh...

Google to Buy Software Developer Apigee in $625 Million Deal

8Sep By reutersNo Comments

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Google to Buy Software Developer Apigee in $625 Million Deal

Alphabet Inc's Google is acquiring software developer Apigee Corp in a deal valued at about $625 million, as it strengthens its cloud business. San Jose-based Apigee's software helps a company's backend services interact with mobile and web-based apps used by customers and partners. "Companies are moving beyond the traditional ways of communicating like phone calls and visits and instead are communicating programmatically through APIs (Application Programming Interface)," said Dianne Greene, who runs Google's cloud computing division. Google will pay Apigee shareholders $17.40 for each share held, a 6.5 percent premium to the stock's Wednesday close. Apigee's shares were trading above the offer price at $17.45 on Thursday morning. This is the latest from the highly regarded ente...

World’s First Autonomous Taxis Hit The Road in Singapore

25Aug By NitishNo Comments

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World’s First Autonomous Taxis Hit The Road in Singapore

AP- The world's first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday. Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says is the first to offer rides to the public. Its launch in Singapore is beating ride-hailing service Uber, which plans to offer rides in autonomous cars in Pittsburgh, by a few weeks. NuTonomy is starting small - six cars now, growing to a dozen by the end of the year. The ultimate goal, company executives say, is to have a fully self-driving taxi fleet in Singapore by 2018, to help cut the number of cars o...

Apple Started Bounty Bug Program For Developers

7Aug By AnkitaNo Comments

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Apple Started Bounty Bug Program For Developers

Apple Inc said it plans to offer rewards of up to $200,000 (£152,433) to researchers who find critical security bugs in its products, joining dozens of firms that already offer payments for help uncovering flaws in their products. Such rewards are already offered by dozens of firms, including Facebook Inc, Google, Microsoft Corp, Tesla Motors Inc and Yahoo Inc. The program will initially be limited to about two dozen researchers who Apple will invite to help identify hard-to-uncover security bugs in five specific categories. Those researchers have been chosen from the group of experts who have previously helped Apple identify bugs, but have not been compensated for that work, the company said. The most lucrative category, which offers rewards of up to $200,000, is for bugs in Apple's ...

Alibaba Launched First Internet Connected Car

6Jul By reutersNo Comments

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Alibaba Launched First Internet Connected Car

Chinese tech firm Alibaba's internet-connected car will set the Chinese e-commerce giant up to quickly introduce driverless vehicle technology, Chief Technology Officer Wang Jian told Reuters on Wednesday. Alibaba and the country's largest automaker SAIC Motor Corp demonstrated their jointly developed car equipped with the YunOS operating system, which can link up with smart phones, at an event in eastern China's Hangzhou on Wednesday. The car is slated to go on sale later this year. "You'll quickly see driverless car technology resulting from this platform," Wang said on the sidelines of the event. Among major tech companies, Alibaba is relatively late to offer a platform that can link a smart phone to a car, trailing platforms already launched by Alphabet's Google, Apple and Baidu. ...

Ex-Google, SAP Executives Launch Home Inspection Services ‘HomeInspeKtor’

5Jul By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments

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Ex-Google, SAP Executives Launch Home Inspection Services ‘HomeInspeKtor’

Two former Google and SAP executives have joined hands to launch Home Inspection services in India and plan to expand the platform to North America, the UK, Singapore and the Middle-East. Phi Property Management Services (PPMS), that performs independent third party end-to end pre-delivery checks - inspection services in the Real Estate domain - has launched operations under the brand name "HomeInspeKtor" in Bengaluru with plans for other cities to follow. "Home Inspection service is a limited, non-invasive examination of the condition of a home/apartment/villa in connection with the sale/renting of that property," company's Chairman and COO B R Nagaraj said. As a first step, PPMS has partnered InterNACHI (the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors) in setting up the I...

Tesla Crash Raises Concerns About Autonomous Vehicle Regulation

2Jul By reutersNo Comments

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Tesla Crash Raises Concerns About Autonomous Vehicle Regulation

The fatal crash of a Tesla Motors Inc Model S in Autopilot mode has turned up pressure on auto industry executives and regulators to ensure that automated driving technology is deployed safely. The first such known accident, which occurred in Florida in May, has highlighted tensions surrounding efforts to turn over responsibility for braking, steering and driving judgments to machines. It may delay the U.S. government's plan to outline guidelines for self-driving cars this month. The cause of the Model S crash is still under investigation by federal and Florida state authorities, which are looking into whether the driver was distracted before his 2015 Model S went under a truck trailer. Advocates of automating driving point to research that shows 90 percent of accidents are caused...