Google’s iconic homepage has been around longer than Harry Potter. It’s old enough to drive, drink or fight in the Army. Today’s teens and young twenty-somethings grew up knowing “Google” not as a numeric value – a “1” with 100 zeroes after it – but...
Google released a personalized, Facebook-like news feed for smartphones this week, but the company is having difficulty rolling it out on devices that run the company’s own Android mobile operating system. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Google’s Google Now, which provides mobile users information about things they are interested in, has rebranded the feature as Google Feed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Google confirmed Wednesday (July 12) its acquisition of Halli Labs, a startup in India that is centered on building smart technology systems to take on existing problems in the world. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being totally cashless. The most public — and most famous — step in that direction is demonetization in India, when last November the central government suddenly...
India, already a mobile payments market marked by heavy hitters such as Paytm and Airtel, is proving alluring for Alphabet via Google and several of its subsidiaries. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Speech recognition, image search, translation — those are just the beginning for artificial intelligence, if Google is reading its pulse right. While machines are getting better and better at these skills, Google believes it can do more — can, and must, by putting people at the forefront...
Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area that it doesn’t dominate? Karen Webster does, and she says that the European Commission was so focused on the online search for products...
Google rolled out a new virtual reality app, dubbed Google Blocks, on Thursday (July 6) in which users can build 3D models. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
