Google is postponing employees’ return to physical offices until October 18, and when people do come back to their desks, COVID-19 vaccinations will be required, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a message to employees on Wednesday (July 28). “Getting vaccinated is one...
The European Union has given Google an eight-week ultimatum to make its travel-related search more transparent or the Silicon Valley technology giant could face consequences, Reuters reported on Monday (July 26), citing regulators from the EU and European Commission (EC). “EU consumers cannot be misled when using...
A new 6,000 seat theater called the YouTube Theater will be built in partnership with Hollywood Park, a report from 9to5Google says. The venue will bill itself as a new “creative oasis” for the Angelenos. It will be a three-story “intimate venue” and will provide...
Third-party cookies got something of a stay of execution with Google announcing in a company blog post that it will be delaying by two years its plan to deprecate third-party cookies by the second quarter of 2022 as “it’s become clear that more time is...
Google Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, which is aimed at phasing out third-party cookies, is being held off until 2023, a year later than originally planned, in order to allow more time to test the initiatives, Chrome’s Privacy Engineering Director Vinay Goel said in a blog post...
Google is permanently closing the doors of its Google for Startups (GFS) Campus in London. That and other such campuses were shuttered due to the COVID-19 crisis. Since then, Google said, it has gone on to serve U.K. startups virtually — despite the crisis. In...
European Union (EU) antitrust regulators are considering a formal investigation into Google’s advertising business before 2021 closes out, Reuters reported, citing sources. If the investigation moves forward, it is expected to examine Google’s relationships regarding advertisers, publishers, intermediaries and competitors, one source told Reuters. The...
Late to the game when it comes to a physical retail location to call its own, Google officially opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan Thursday (June 17). The store’s designer said the physical shopping spot was created to offer consumers an “anti-Apple” experience, according...
Google Cloud rolled out Datashare for financial services, created to help market data publishers, such as exchanges, and data consumers, such as hedge funds and investment banks, exchange market data. The platform is developed on Google Cloud analytics services such as BigQuery and will harness...
