Alphabet falls shorts of investor's expectations
Wall Street still loves it
The umbrella of the Google Empire, Alphabet announced that its first-quarter earnings fell short of estimates, largely because it spent more to build traffic for its mobile advertising services.
EU hits Google with Android monopoly charges
Do not pass go, to not collect $200
As we expected the EU has finally waded into Google for “abusing” its dominant position in the smartphone market by forcing device makers to adopt certain apps.
EU preparing to slap Google
Anti-trust
The EU is gearing up for what will be an epic legal battle with the search outfit Google.
Google might replace Java with Open source Swift
Weirdy beardie software that writes a song about everytime it is forked and dumped
Google is so hacked off with Oracle's java antics it is seriously considering taking it out of Android and replacing it with Apple's open sauce Swift software.
Carrier dissatisfaction with Google growing
AT&T looks to Cyanogen
Carrier dissatisfaction with the Android maker Google is growing as more of them look to alternatives to curb what they perceive as the search engine outfit’s inflexibility.
Apple’s cloud disaster
Blaming Obama now
Fruity Cargo cult Apple has spent billions trying to build its own cloud structure and failed and rather than question its own networking competence it is blaming the government.
Alphabet to flog off part of its robot arm
Alphabet, the search outfit formally known as Google, as placed part of its robotics division, up for sale.
Google Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P now available for $299 and $399
Unlocked phones with free shipping, while supplies last
This week, Internet retail giant B&H Photo Video is offering promotional codes on Google’s 2015 flagship smartphones, the LG-branded Google Nexus 5X and the Huawei-branded Huawei-branded Google Nexus 6P, while supplies last. Thanks to a special limited-time sale on twelve different varieties of the devices, customers can now order the Nexus 5X for as low as $299 with free shipping, while the Nexus 6P can be ordered for as low as $399 with free shipping.
HTC scores Nexus deal
Three years
HTC has scored a deal to exclusively manufacture Nexus devices for the next three years.
"Right to be forgotten" now applies to all of Google's domains
Geolocation fences will be deployed to avert unwanted local searchers
In 2014, the European Union’s highest court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), ruled that Internet search engines like Google must be required to erase all webpage links to an individual’s search results in which personally identifiable information is deemed “inadequate” or “irrelevant” to a larger context of search inquiry. At first, the court order was only applicable to Google’s European Union-based search sites (see: Google.co.uk, Google.fr and Google.de, etc).