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Alphabet Driverless Ambitions Looked Stalled. Then It Sued Uber

EghtesadOnline: Not so long ago Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving ambitions seemed to have lost momentum despite the company being among the earliest to put experimental autonomous cars on the road. There was no business plan, and Alphabet was in danger of losing its first-mover advantage to traditional automakers and Silicon Valley startups, including Uber Technologies Inc. It looked as though the company had started another moonshot.
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Publish Date:01/June/2017 | 11:15
Alphabet's mobility division is testing new hardware that can generate a 360-degree view around the vehicle and see pedestrians and cars at far longer ranges.

Waymo Tests Hardware to Ease Passenger Fears of Driverless Cars

EghtesadOnline: For years the Google coders and roboticists working on driverless cars have focused on making sure their creations could drive safely around California roads. Now, comes the next big test: getting regular civilians comfortable passing the wheel to a machine.
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Publish Date:17/May/2017 | 07:01

Alphabet adds patent claim to Uber intellectual property theft lawsuit

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit Waymo on Friday added a new patent claim to its intellectual property lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc and requested a preliminary injunction to stop the ride-sharing service from using what it says is proprietary information, a court filing showed.
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Publish Date:11/March/2017 | 24:47

Planet Labs Inks Deal for Google’s Satellite Business

EghtesadOnline: Planet Labs Inc., a startup that launches small satellites into orbit and sells the imagery, is acquiring the Terra Bella satellite business of Alphabet Inc. in a bid to take on larger industry incumbents.
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Publish Date:04/February/2017 | 04:56

Microsoft, Intel, Alphabet Results Buoyed by Cloud Boom

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., which all posted quarterly results Thursday, reinforced what’s become a truism in technology: the biggest growth is in businesses that deliver computing over the internet.
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Publish Date:27/January/2017 | 16:12

Alphabet ’s Google Buys Mobile App Tool Fabric From Twitter

EghtesadOnline: Google isn’t buying Twitter Inc., but it’s buying one of Twitter’s remaining parts. Alphabet Inc.’s online search division agreed to purchase Fabric, a Twitter business that provides a software toolkit for mobile apps. The companies didn’t disclose financial terms.
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Publish Date:20/January/2017 | 13:21

Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project

EghtesadOnline: In 2014, Google and Facebook Inc. vied to acquire Titan Aerospace, a maker of high-altitude, solar-powered drones. Google won the bidding, so Facebook purchased its own company, which was building a huge glider called Aquila.
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Publish Date:12/January/2017 | 06:37

Honda, Alphabet 's Waymo in talks over self-driving tech

EghtesadOnline: Honda Motor Co Ltd said it is in talks to supply vehicles for Alphabet Inc's Waymo to test self-driving technology, in the latest instance of a carmaker teaming up with a tech firm to supplement its own automation efforts.
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Publish Date:22/December/2016 | 09:55
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

Alphabet 's unit discloses Snapchat investment

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc's venture capital arm CapitalG, earlier known as Google Capital, disclosed an investment in Snapchat by adding the social networking firm's logo to a page on its investment portfolio website.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 04:45

Alphabet ’s Big Bets Shift to Cloud, Away From Moonshots

EghtesadOnline: Alphabet Inc. will focus its biggest bets next year on the staid world of business software and cloud computing, a marked departure from lofty "moonshots" of recent years, such as burrito-carrying drones and super-fast internet service.
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Publish Date:30/October/2016 | 07:38

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

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

EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected

EghtesadOnline: EU antitrust regulators plan to order Alphabet 's Google to stop paying financial incentives to smartphone makers to pre-install Google Search exclusively on their devices and warned the company of a large fine, an EU document showed.
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Publish Date:02/October/2016 | 04:56

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