Google’s AI fund has made its first public investment, leading a $10.5 million Series A funding round for Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that enables developers to tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models. According to news from TechCrunch, other participants in the...
Google has reportedly rolled out a new venture capital fund focused on artificial intelligence. According to a report in Axios, citing multiple unnamed sources, this is the first time Google has made an investment effort that is focused on specific technology. What’s more, the fund is being...
Aiming to make subscriptions a more lucrative option for companies and individual app developers, Google rolled out a slew of new tools within the Google Play Console. According to a report, Google launched a new subscription dashboard with the Play Console that lets users see new...
Yesterday marked the second day of the Google I/O developer conference, and the announcements just kept on coming. Wednesday, the company broke the news of a major development for enabling in-app payments — a new Google Payment API that will allow merchants and developers to...
Instead of adding text comments in YouTube VR, Google announced that it will be creating shared rooms where users can voice chat about the videos they’ve watched on the site. According to TechCrunch, the system doesn’t sound much different from Oculus Rooms, which allows you to...
Google just made a major move to expand its revenue beyond the realm of digital advertising. At the keynote address of this year’s I/O developer conference, Google’s CEO announced that the company will be selling AI computer chips, called Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), via...
Alphabet (GOOG) races against Amazon to break the coveted $1,000 milestone in 2017. Both companies have been boosted by strong Q1 earnings in the past few weeks. For Alphabet, shares leaped nearly 4 percent at Friday morning’s open (April 28) following a major beat on...
While Facebook has become the major place to go for finding local events like concerts, lectures and meetups, Google is giving the social media giant a run for its money. This week, Google announced updates to its app and mobile web search that enable people to use...
Google may be gearing up to include facial recognition in Android Pay, judging from the code on a new version of its payment app. According to a report, 9to5Google did a so-called APK teardown of Android Pay Version 1.22 and found Visual ID, a feature that is...
