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Uber calls claims of stolen self-driving car technology from Google spinout Waymo ‘a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor’

Uber responded to a lawsuit from Google self-driving vehicle spinout Waymo on Friday, denying claims it has used intellectual property stolen by… Read More

Autonomous minivan

Lawsuit: Google self-driving car spinout Waymo claims Uber using stolen laser-mapping technology

Google self-driving car spinout Waymo has filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco against Uber, alleging that former… Read More

Google to take over former gym space from Tableau as it continues to grow in Seattle

Google’s massive new campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood is still a few years out, but that hasn’t stopped the search… Read More

Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift

We already know that Microsoft, Amazon, and Zillow made multimillion-dollar donations to help build a new University of Washington computer science and engineering building. But… Read More

Google to compete with Foursquare with new Maps feature for creating and sharing lists

Google has set its sights on Foursquare, announcing Monday a new feature for Google Maps for creating and sharing lists of… Read More

Snap commits to spend $1B on Amazon Web Services over next five years

Snap Inc.’s Spectacles camera glasses landed in Seattle for the first time Wednesday, but one of the city’s tech giants… Read More

Watch: Google’s Super Bowl commercial stars Google Home, its voice-activated smart speaker

https://youtu.be/aQn5wiDyUHo Millions of people watching Super Bowl 51 today will get a taste of Google Home. The tech giant will… Read More

Snap’s IPO filing reveals $2B, five-year Google Cloud deal — and it was finalized this week

Snap Inc. disclosed a major contract to use Google Cloud Platform as part of its $3 billion IPO filing today. RELATED As… Read More

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud Platform’s appeal to big companies that run the… Read More

Google Doodle honors World War II civil rights advocate in wake of Trump’s immigration ban

Google honored civil rights advocate Fred Korematsu with the Google Doodle on Monday, following a weekend of protests over President… Read More

Donald Trump

Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash

Updated with comments from Amazon, Expedia and Gov. Jay Inslee. A federal judge has issued an emergency stay that halts part… Read More

Google, Facebook and Microsoft sound alarm over Trump’s immigration crackdown

[FOLLOW-UP: Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash] President Trump’s actions on immigration during his… Read More

Microsoft’s market value surges past $500B for first time in nearly 17 years

Another strong earnings report has pushed Microsoft to a new milestone, lifting the company’s market value past $500 billion for the first… Read More

Google parent Alphabet posts $26B in revenue, but shares drop after earnings miss expectations

Google parent company Alphabet saw shares fall slightly after missing analyst expectations for its fourth quarter earnings report. Alphabet, the holding company… Read More

Google deleted more than 1.7B ‘bad ads’ in 2016 and banned 200 publishers in fake news fight

Google cracked down on bad advertising in 2016, taking down 1.7 billion ads that violated its advertising policies, the company… Read More

Amazon campus

How Seattle’s office market became a ‘modern day gold rush’ thanks to Amazon and other tech giants

Amazon, with its more than 300,000 global employees, has emerged as one of the world’s corporate powerhouses. But the company’s impact is especially evident… Read More

Amazon continues to grow lead over Google as starting point for online shoppers

Where do you start when shopping for something online? For a majority of people, it’s Amazon — not Google. That’s… Read More

Samsung and Google unveil Chromebooks with built-in stylus, challenging Microsoft Surface and Apple iPad Pro

LAS VEGAS — Samsung today is unveiling a pair of new Google notebooks, the Intel-powered Chromebook Pro and ARM-powered Chromebook… Read More

Pizza deliveries by Google drone? Alphabet X’s Wing Marketplace faces tough climb

You don’t hear as much about Google’s (now Alphabet X’s) Project Wing as you do about Amazon’s Prime Air drones,… Read More

Google to achieve 100% renewable power next year, relying mostly on the wind

With 2.6 GW (gigawatts) of renewable energy purchased, Google is on pace to reach 100 percent renewable energy next year,… Read More

Making sense of Seattle’s ‘Mercer Mess,’ and the tech boom’s impact on urban infrastructure

Growing pains hurt the most when you’re at a standstill. Just ask Nile Nelson. The longtime Seattle resident has commuted to… Read More

Reviews: Google Home outsmarts Amazon Echo, but Alexa is more skilled

Google’s $129 smart speaker ships tomorrow, and a new batch of reviews say Google Home is smarter than its competitor… Read More

Windows security hole, exposed by Google, puts Microsoft at center of Russian hacking controversy

The rivalry between Microsoft and Google might not match the one between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but it goes back many more… Read More

Google debuts 55-inch 4K digital collaboration whiteboard that will compete with Microsoft’s Surface Hub

Google unveiled its latest productivity tool on Tuesday, and it is rather large. The tech giant introduced Jamboard, a 55-inch 4K… Read More

Watch out, Amazon: Google Express home delivery service launches in Seattle as part of big expansion

Seattleites have a new option for ordering items online, thanks to Google. Google Express launched today in Seattle and across Washington, along… Read More

Google unveils new Pixel smartphone, Daydream mobile VR platform and Amazon Echo competitor Google Home

Google today unveiled a huge new catalog of devices it plans to release in the coming months: a new smartphone, a virtual-reality… Read More

Watch out, Amazon: Google set to launch Echo competitor at event Tuesday

Google is poised to launch its Amazon Echo challenger at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to reports from… Read More

Google Allo

Google’s new Allo messaging app tries to outsmart the competition with learned replies, help of Assistant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXEkoXgb4bI In the crowded world of messaging apps, Google has released Allo, a new player that promises to learn how you… Read More

New images show how Google’s Seattle campus will transform the South Lake Union neighborhood

The team designing Google’s Seattle campus has released a new batch of images that show how the tech giant will… Read More

Google Seattle

Check out the latest images of Google’s future Seattle campus

Google’s new Seattle campus — deep in the heart of Amazon country in the South Lake Union neighborhood — will… Read More

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