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Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat wants to bring focus to Mountain View. Can the moonshot factory adapt?

Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline—Until Now

EghtesadOnline: Earlier this year, Astro Teller, a ponytailed scientist and science fiction writer, gave a TED Talk. It was a first for Teller, but not for X, or Google X, as the research lab he runs used to be known. The lab has been a fixture on the conference circuit for years. In 2011, Sebastian Thrun, X’s founder, took the TED stage and predicted that driverless cars would put an end to traffic fatalities.
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 20:32

Google DeepMind Makes AI Training Platform Publicly Available

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc.’s artificial intelligence division Google DeepMind is making the maze-like game platform it uses for many of its experiments available to other researchers and the general public.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 11:46

EU urges U.S. tech giants to act faster against hate speech

EghtesadOnline: U.S. tech giants including Facebook, Twitter, Google 's YouTube and Microsoft will have to act faster to tackle online hate speech or face laws forcing them to do so, the European Commission said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 10:18

ISIS Victim Suit Ties Twitter Ads to Terrorist Propaganda

EghtesadOnline: The family of a woman slain in the 2015 Paris attacks claims in a lawsuit that Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda promoting violence.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 01:01

Google tries new approach with voice on Pixel phone

EghtesadOnline: About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters, hammering out minute details of its first phone.
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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 05:37

Google parent Alphabet profit surges on mobile, video ads

EghtesadOnline: Google parent Alphabet Inc bested analysts' estimates for third-quarter profit and revenue on Thursday as the search company showed it has honed its core business for the mobile era and is closing in on the next wave of computing.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 15:28

Google starts big advertising push around new Pixel phone

EghtesadOnline: Google 's new "Pixel" smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads in two days since it announced the upcoming launch, and ad executives expect Google to spend hundreds of millions more to keep up with rivals Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc.
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Publish Date:08/October/2016 | 09:15

Alphabet Executives Canceled Launch of a Google Robotic Arm

EghtesadOnline: Google published research this week detailing how its software enables robots to learn from one another. To demonstrate, the company’s scientists showed videos featuring robotic arms whirling inside its labs.
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Publish Date:06/October/2016 | 10:15

Google takes on Apple, Amazon with new hardware push

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday announced a new "Pixel" smartphone and a suite of new consumer electronics products for the home, planting itself firmly in the hardware business and challenging Apple Inc's iPhone at the high end of the $400 billion global smartphone market.
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Publish Date:05/October/2016 | 08:14

Google expected to unveil new phones at San Francisco event

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's Google is expected to unveil new smartphones at an event on Tuesday, the company's latest effort to sell consumers on a Google -branded device and to challenge Apple Inc at the high end of the market.
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Publish Date:04/October/2016 | 07:36

Google Said to Tap Lazard to Review Potential Bid for Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Google is working with a financial adviser to consider a potential bid for Twitter Inc., as the social-media company continues to explore a sale, according to a person familiar with the arrangement.
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Publish Date:01/October/2016 | 09:18

Google launches Allo, bets on AI to spice up chats

EghtesadOnline: Google -parent Alphabet Inc launched Allo, a messaging app that incorporates Google 's search feature and a chatbot that uses machine learning to "improve" itself over time.
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Publish Date:22/September/2016 | 24:08

AT&T, Apple, Google to work on 'robocall' crackdown

EghtesadOnline: More than 30 major technology and communication companies said on Friday they are joining the U.S. government to crack down on "robocalls," automated, prerecorded phone calls that regulators have labeled a "scourge."
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Publish Date:20/August/2016 | 08:52