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Sundar Pichai

Google Cloud posts second straight profitable quarter on 28% revenue growth

by Todd Bishop on July 25, 2023July 25, 2023 at 3:43 pm

Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Google I/O highlights, AI risks and rewards, and the future of creativity

by Todd Bishop on May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 at 7:58 am

We’re back this week on the GeekWire Podcast as humans, not bots, we promise, but we’ve still got a lot of AI to talk about. This week’s show starts with… Read More

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In search of AI’s killer app … and other notes from Google I/O

by Todd Bishop on May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 at 9:47 am

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Has AI found its VisiCalc? That’s what I’m wondering after spending Wednesday at Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Have we… Read More

Google parent Alphabet laying off 12k workers in latest cuts to hit tech industry

by Kurt Schlosser on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023 at 9:02 am

Google parent Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its global workforce, as it becomes the latest tech company to make cuts amid a fears of a… Read More

What did Google learn from Microsoft? New antitrust case hearkens back to landmark dispute

by Todd Bishop on October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 at 11:14 am

The antitrust complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department against Google on Tuesday morning spotlights the difficult position in which Yelp, Expedia and many other companies find themselves, competing with… Read More

Amazon asks court to block former AWS marketing VP from working on Google Cloud Next speeches

by Todd Bishop on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 at 8:24 am

Amazon is seeking a court order to keep Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, from editing and summarizing keynote speeches and slides for the upcoming… Read More

Google Cloud revenue rises 52% as crisis forces tech giant to temper hiring and spending

by Todd Bishop on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 at 8:29 pm

Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations even as the company’s broader advertising business struggled amid… Read More

Google is getting a bigger grid: G Suite chief on Microsoft, Zoom and the new world of collaboration

by Todd Bishop on April 22, 2020April 22, 2020 at 11:41 am

Google Meet, the tech giant’s video conferencing platform for businesses, was originally designed with presentations in mind — favoring slides and screen-sharing over a large grid view of everyone participating… Read More

Alphabet execs Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down; Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes over

by Taylor Soper on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 at 2:13 pm

Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced Tuesday that they are stepping down from their roles as CEO and president, respectively, at Google parent Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will become… Read More

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Google Cloud hiring spree: Alphabet adds 6,450 employees in Q3, cites cloud as biggest factor

by Todd Bishop on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 at 3:43 pm

Google parent company Alphabet grew by a net total of 6,450 employees in the third quarter, up nearly 6 percent from the end of the second quarter, topping 114,000 employees… Read More

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Google unveils Nest Hub Max with 10-inch display, escalating rivalry with Amazon Alexa and Echo

by Todd Bishop on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 at 11:58 am

Google showed a new device called Nest Hub Max, with a 10-inch display and a built-in camera, stepping up its efforts to give Google Assistant and other services a place… Read More

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Life lessons from artificial intelligence: What Microsoft’s AI chief wants computer science grads to know about the future

by Kaitlyn Wang on June 9, 2018June 9, 2018 at 12:25 pm

Artificial intelligence has exploded, and perhaps no one knows it more than Harry Shum, the executive vice president in charge of Microsoft’s AI and Research Group, which has been at… Read More

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

by Tom Krazit on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 at 10:02 am

Google is one of the most amazing tech companies to emerge from the rubble of the first dot-com bust — a company with a purpose, backed by some of the… Read More

Google Cloud TPU Pod

Google launches powerful new Cloud TPU machine-learning chips for Google Cloud Platform

by Tom Krazit on May 17, 2017May 17, 2017 at 12:23 pm

Google is “rethinking our computational architecture again,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai, who rolled out the next generation of Google’s specialized chips for machine-learning research Wednesday. The new chips are… Read More

Google Cloud takes the stage: Can the consumer tech giant finally crack the enterprise?

by Todd Bishop on March 7, 2017March 8, 2017 at 5:26 am

Google’s top executives will unveil their latest cloud initiatives Wednesday morning, making the case for big businesses to choose Google’s cloud over Microsoft Azure, public cloud leader Amazon Web Services and other competing… Read More

Google, Facebook and Microsoft sound alarm over Trump’s immigration crackdown

by Monica Nickelsburg on January 28, 2017January 28, 2017 at 6:43 pm

[FOLLOW-UP: Court partially blocks Trump immigration ban amid protests and tech industry backlash] President Trump’s actions on immigration during his first week in office are sending shock waves through the technology… Read More

Google to offer its own wireless service later this year

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 at 9:55 am

Google will try its hand at providing cell phone service this year by partnering with existing wireless carriers. Sundar Pichai, the company’s senior vice president of Chrome and Android, revealed… Read More

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News Brief

Former Android head Andy Rubin leaves Google

by Blair Hanley Frank on October 31, 2014October 31, 2014 at 10:02 am

Andy Rubin, the founder of Android and head of the mobile operating system company prior to its acquisition by Google, has left the Mountain View-based tech titan, the Wall Street… Read More

Google’s Android chief pushes back against Apple, wishes Amazon were ‘more aligned’ with mainstream Android

by Blair Hanley Frank on June 25, 2014June 25, 2014 at 7:47 am

When Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote earlier this month, he had a lot of very pointed things to say about Android. Quoting ZDNet’s Adrian… Read More

Google has sold ‘millions’ of Chromecasts, new markets coming soon

by Blair Hanley Frank on March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 at 9:10 am

It’s been a good run so far for Google’s Chromecast video streaming dongle. The $35 device, which plugs into a TV’s HDMI port and allows users to stream video from… Read More

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