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Google to challenge Amazon’s Echo Show through smart-screen partnerships with LG, Sony and others

LAS VEGAS — Google has its answer to the touchscreen-powered Amazon Echo Show. Google announced today that it will bring… Read More

Google continues all-out blitz of CES with new smart speakers, TVs and more featuring Google Assistant

LAS VEGAS — If CES 2017 was the year of Alexa everywhere, the theme of 2018 may ultimately be Google… Read More

Panasonic bringing Alexa and Google Assistant to in-car ‘infotainment’ systems, with offline capabilities

LAS VEGAS — An overriding theme of CES this year is Amazon’s Alexa versus the Google Assistant, but Panasonic isn’t… Read More

LG bets big on Google Assistant, but still hedging its bets with Amazon

LAS VEGAS — The battle of voice assistant platforms has begun at CES 2018, pitting the Google Assistant versus Amazon’s… Read More

Alexa is coming to PCs: HP, ASUS and Acer bring Amazon’s assistant onto Microsoft Cortana’s turf

Amazon Alexa will soon arrive on Windows PCs, creating new competition for Microsoft’s built-in Cortana voice assistant. Hardware makers HP,… Read More

Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant emerges as key battle of CES 2018

Last year’s big story at CES was the rise of Amazon Alexa as the voice assistant of choice in everything… Read More

Software as a Service in 2018: Artificial intelligence and new apps are reshaping a key cloud sector

First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is… Read More

Sorry, Google: We tried Amazon’s YouTube workaround on Fire TV, and it worked great

Who needs a YouTube app? That’s our conclusion after trying Amazon’s workaround to the popular streaming site after Google pulled YouTube… Read More

Amazon now directs Fire TV users to web browsers for YouTube in latest twist to Google squabble

Amazon introduced web browsing capabilities for its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick streaming devices just over a week ago,… Read More

After 16 years, Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced Thursday afternoon that Eric Schmidt, who has played an outsized role in Google’s… Read More

Google, NCAA team up on cloud marketing deal, will digitize 80 years of sports data

Ever wondered who was the best basketball player in the Pac-10 in 1982? If that trivia item has been bugging… Read More

Google adds one-time cloud-holdout Etsy, months after Amazon rolled out its own craft shop

Over the last few years, Etsy was something of a stalwart supporter when it came to the virtues of maintaining… Read More

Google Chromecast and Apple TV resurface on Amazon as tech giants continue to thaw icy relationships

Google’s Chromecast and the Apple TV are back on Amazon, two years after the retail giant removed the streaming products… Read More

Google Cloud hires the former head of Intel’s data center group, Diane Bryant, as COO

Google is bringing on an experienced enterprise tech leader, former Intel datacenter executive Diane Bryant, to serve as chief operating… Read More

Google eliminates Kubernetes cluster-management fees just before the main event at AWS re:Invent

LAS VEGAS — With the cloud computing industry gathered in Las Vegas for Amazon Web Services’ big re:Invent conference, Google… Read More

Google’s Urs Hölzle still thinks its cloud revenue will catch its ad revenue, but maybe not by 2020

At Structure 2015, Google’s Urs Hölzle predicted that Google would get as much revenue from cloud computing as it did… Read More

An Echo on every counter and a Google Home on every nightstand? Study says 55% of U.S. will own a smart speaker by 2022

A new study sheds some light on why tech companies across the world are in the midst of a digital… Read More

Salesforce and Google strike partnership deal around G Suite and Google Cloud

Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and… Read More

Amazon leads smart speaker race with 20M devices sold, study claims, but Google is gaining ground

Amazon is leading the way in the smart home automation market — thanks to its growing line of Alexa-powered devices… Read More

The new world of tech: How Amazon and Google ended up inside a Microsoft database conference

Delivering the keynote address at the PASS Summit 2017 in Seattle this week, Microsoft’s general manager of database systems, Rohan… Read More

YouTube TV unveils new app, but no support for Fire TV as Amazon’s spat with Google continues

YouTube is rolling out a standalone app for its new TV service, but people hoping to stream content on Amazon’s… Read More

Alphabet stock on the rise as Google parent beats Wall Street expectations with $27.7B in revenue

Shares in Google parent company Alphabet are up after the company exceeded Wall Street expectations in the third quarter. Alphabet… Read More

Amazon tops 540K employees after swallowing Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

Amazon added a whopping 159,500 employees in the last quarter, pushing its total employment to 541,900 people worldwide, according to… Read More

Google’s Deepmind AI unit releases new version of AlphaGo that learns on its own

Deepmind, the artificial intelligence research organization owned by Google, announced some stunning results Wednesday from research into the next generation… Read More

Google reveals plan for ‘smart city’ makeover of Toronto waterfront — is there room left for Amazon’s second HQ?

Sidewalk Labs, a division of Google parent Alphabet Inc., announced plans Tuesday to study a bold redevelopment of the Toronto… Read More

Google and Puppet strike partnership deal designed to ease migration to the cloud

Puppet and Google announced a new partnership Tuesday designed to help Puppet customers running its DevOps software on-premises move their… Read More

Study: Amazon Echo owners love the iPhone, while Google Home keeps it in the Android family

Amazon Echo owners are more likely to be iPhone and iPad fans, while owners of the Google Home smart speaker… Read More

Google targets parents and pet owners with new $249 AI-powered, hands-free ‘Clips’ camera

As part of its hardware launch event today, Google unveiled a new camera. Called “Google Clips,” the $249 device is… Read More

Google unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones with Always On display and high-powered camera

Google this morning showed off its latest smartphones, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, following up on the release… Read More

Google expands smart speaker lineup with $49 Home Mini and $399 Home Max

Google today debuted a pair of smart speakers this morning meant to complement the Google Home, the search giant’s initial… Read More