Google’s parent company Alphabet is pulling the plug on its subsidiary Loon, a futuristic venture that for the past decade was exploring the use of giant helium balloons to deliver internet access to remote locales. “Loon has been chasing the hardest problem of all in...
Google is threatening to pull out of Australia if the proposed news media bargaining code — which is designed to benefit news organizations — becomes law without significant changes made first. On Friday (Jan. 22), two Google Australia executives — Managing Director Mel Silva and...
When it comes to 5G, there’s the anticipation of a tipping point – but the tipping point is somewhere off on the horizon. It would be understandable to think that the latest iteration of wireless technology — promising blazing fast data speeds — is ready...
In the age of eCommerce, supply chains must become more agile — and to become agile, they must embrace digitization. Niall Murphy, CEO of EVRYTHNG, told PYMNTS in an interview that assigning individual items their own unique identities and data, and tracking it all across...
Before 2014, talking to a virtual assistant and instructing it to turn on the lights, start the dishwasher or order up the groceries was the sort of thing the average consumer would more expect to see in a science fiction or superhero movie than in...
Among the more unexpected effects of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last half-year or so is the sudden home improvement boom it set off among consumers. Unexpected, but not entirely surprising, as consumers suddenly spending nearly all of their time in their homes these days...
The spikes in new coronavirus cases, notable in pockets across the U.S. and Europe, is having ripple effects across the entertainment industry, pushing back content production and, by extension, leaving theaters dark. Which opens up the doors, so to speak, for even more of a...
Google says that six months of COVID-19 restrictions have produced changes in shopping habits that in typical times would have taken 10 years to transpire – and the company today is touting offerings for brick-and-mortar small businesses as a way to help. One change, Google...
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday (Sept. 15) announced that its game-streaming service XCloud is now available to users of Google’s Android service, but not to Apple iPhone users. CNBC wrote: “Think of xCloud as the ‘Netflix of gaming.’ Microsoft’s game-streaming service lets you play high-quality games,...
