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Google takes YouTube off Amazon’s Echo Show device; Amazon calls it ‘disappointing’

Google and Amazon are having a tiff. The Verge reported Tuesday that Google dropped support for YouTube on the Echo… Read More

Google follows Amazon Web Services in allowing cloud customers to bill by the second

One week after Amazon Web Services announced per-second billing for its cloud customers, Google plans to do the same for… Read More

Review: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s candid book ‘Hit Refresh’ goes inside the tech giant’s revival

This was my litmus test for Satya Nadella’s new book: Does he write about his Grace Hopper debacle? The answer… Read More

HTC to Google? Rumors swirl over possible deal for smartphone pioneer

HTC plans to halt trading of its stock tomorrow to make a “material announcement,” the Taiwan Stock Exchange announced this morning,… Read More

Google, Microsoft emphasize cloud security as hacks intensify and big businesses eye the cloud

Security fears have been associated with cloud computing ever since it began, and for the most part those fears have… Read More

Bezos, Nadella, Cook and other tech leaders call on Trump to preserve ‘Dreamers’ immigration program

Updated below with WTIA statement. Leaders in the technology industry including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Apple… Read More

Amazon, Microsoft and other tech giants step up to aid tropical storm Harvey rescue efforts

As tropical storm Harvey continues to take its toll on Texas, tech companies from around the nation are pitching in… Read More

Marketo decides to go all-in on cloud computing, and picks Google as its home

One of the bigger marketing software companies, Marketo, has decided it’s ready to ditch its servers and move into the… Read More

Google unveils a new, cheaper networking option for cloud customers: the public internet

Google Cloud Platform customers will have a new option when selecting the type of network used to deliver their traffic… Read More

Watch out Amazon: Google and Walmart form e-commerce alliance to battle online retail giant

Google and Walmart are teaming up to take on mutual e-commerce rival Amazon. Starting in late September, customers will be… Read More

Exclusive: Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push

Shwetak Patel has struck again. The University of Washington computer scientist has sold his newest Seattle startup company, Senosis Health, to Google,… Read More

Baidu’s Qi Lu, former Microsoft exec, explains why Amazon’s Alexa took the industry by surprise

Qi Lu was a top engineering executive at Microsoft for eight years, leading products including Office and Bing, and shaping… Read More

Even after firing an engineer, Google faces an existential and cultural crisis

Google is one of the most amazing tech companies to emerge from the rubble of the first dot-com bust —… Read More

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O 2017

Alphabet revenue up 21 percent to $26B but profit falls thanks to EU fine

Google parent Alphabet recorded a 21 percent jump in revenue during its second quarter of the year, and even though… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 voice skills, more than doubling since beginning of the year

As more and more companies get into the smart speaker game, a new report shows just how much ground they… Read More

UK regulators slap hospital involved in project with Google’s DeepMind over data handling

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence research was dealt a minor setback Monday after U.K. regulators ruled a hospital it partnered with… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Amazon Alexa and Google Home at Best Buy

Best Buy introducing Amazon Alexa and Google Home experiences to 700 U.S. stores

There’s going to be a lot of chatter about and with voice-activated assistants in Best Buy stores thanks to new Amazon… Read More

Google’s Amazon defense: Search giant cites rival’s rise in response to $2.7B EU antitrust fine

Google has been fined $2.7 billion by European regulators for using its dominance in the search engine market to favor… Read More

Amazon slashes price of Echo smart speaker to $130, matching Google Home speaker for one day only

Amazon has cut the price of its Echo smart speaker to $129.99, the same price as the Google Home speaker,… Read More

Google’s new AI investment arm leads $10.5M round in Algorithmia machine-learning marketplace

Google’s new artificial intelligence investment arm has made one of its first bets, leading a $10.5 million Series A round… Read More

Google’s data-driven pitch for the cloud: ‘finding the needle of value in the haystack of data’

For most of its existence, Google Cloud Platform has been fighting just to get a seat at the table for… Read More

What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs

As promised, some of the world’s top tech CEOs from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google and many others met… Read More

Trump to talk policy with tech CEOs Bezos, Nadella, Cook and others in Washington D.C.

Follow-up: What happened inside President Trump’s meeting with top tech CEOs An all-star contingent of tech CEOs will meet Monday… Read More

Why Amazon (and others) might want to acquire Slack

There’s not much of a dilemma as to why Amazon might consider buying Slack for $9 billion; just about any… Read More

Google continues to emphasize its cloud tech chops as it scrambles to catch AWS and Azure

Despite a lot of grumbling that Google needs to improve its enterprise sales outreach to properly compete in the cloud,… Read More

Google exec: New Seattle building ‘is going to be basically Google Cloud’

Google’s Seattle expansion is no secret, but the search giant hadn’t gone into much detail about which groups would work out… Read More

Spinnaker, an open-source project for continuous delivery, hits the 1.0 milestone

Spinnaker, an open-source project that lets companies improve the speed and stability of their application deployment processes, reached the 1.0… Read More

Apple unveils $349 HomePod smart speaker, competing with Amazon Echo and Google Home

Apple today unveiled its own voice-activated smart home speaker, the HomePod. Set to begin shipping in December, the speaker is… Read More

Why the Pacific Northwest will be a data center powerhouse for years to come

Abundant clean energy sources, business friendly tax incentives, and new undersea fiber-optic cables will keep the Pacific Northwest as one… Read More