Google may have taken the early bird to get Nest, but it seems that one of it’s first major flights will connect to a hub of Amazon’s.In a few weeks, the Nest Learning Thermostat will make its first connection with the Amazon’s Alexa voice assistance service, featured on the Amazon Echo, Fire TV and, likely, the company’s latest Echo ...
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Google and Apple may be butting heads over who’s the most valuable company these days, as shifting stock prices push top valuation back and forth between the two tech giants. But no matter which firm is currently in the top spot, there’s no denying that the executives behind these companies are leading efforts that bring in billions upon billions for their respective employers. Earlier this ...
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Based on Google’s more than healthy recent financial report, and generally gloomy iPhone sales predictions for at least the current quarter, we wouldn’t have been shocked to see Alphabet exceeding Apple’s market capitalization through summer or even fall.But the simultaneous
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Who doesn’t use Gmail? Apparently, plenty of people still, given it took the world’s most popular email client several months longer than Facebook to cross the one billion active users mark. One billion monthly active users, to be exact, compared to FB’s daily billion count, though the feat remains a remarkable one.The figure stood at 900 million just eight months back, and in case you’re wondering, Google Search, Chrome, Android, Google Play, Maps, and YouTube indeed reached the ...
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The past few weeks have offered us our latest glimpse into the books of the biggest companies in mobile, as firms like Apple, Microsoft, LG, Samsung, and more all report their latest financial figures. That’s left us with at least one more giant still needing to share its most recent performance data, and today Google – or rather, Alphabet – comes through with news of respectable Q4 growth, topping off a big year that ...
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The Google X labs set up by the search giant in 2010 and recently moved under Alphabet’s control gave birth in the past few years to a number of ambitious projects intended to break new technological ground in industries as diverse as artificial intelligence, neuroscience or health care.But arguably the most well-known X initiatives are Google Glass and driverless cars, with ...
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Things are starting to settle down on the heels of Google’s recent shocking reorganization announcement, and so, it might be time to fill in the blanks of the alphabet soup of companies structured under the Alphabet umbrella.As you may have guessed by recapping the 26 traditional Latin letters, Calico, Capital, Fiber, the more streamlined Sundar Pichai-led Google, Life Sciences, Nest, Ventures, and X should be joined soon by other Alphabet ...
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The establishment of a conglomerate called Alphabet to better oversee Google’s increasingly eclectic interests, and allow various business ventures previously regarded as secondary to receive the focused attention they probably deserved, took us all by surprise.A number of already influential executives and veteran employees of the search giant were instantly promoted, starting with Google co-founder Larry Page, who essentially retained his spot at the very top of the food chain, but as Alphabet CEO, that involves even ...
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The Google of 2015 is a far cry removed from the search engine that first premiered to the public in the late ’90s. In the decade-plus since, we’ve seen it mature to become the dominant force among search providers, branch out into social media, create self-driving cars, and turn into one of the biggest players in the mobile tech world thanks to its Android platform. So far, all those new ventures have found themselves huddled up under the Google umbrella, but now that’s all changing with the announcement of Alphabet, the new company from Larry Page and Sergey Brin that ...
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