7 years ago061SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalized feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook.
Google, the world's largest search engine...
7 years ago071A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit Waymo must disclose documents to attorneys representing Uber Technologies Inc about Waymo's partnership with Lyft Inc, saying the information could be important in Waymo's lawsuit accusing Uber of stealing some of its trade secrets.
Waymo claimed in a lawsuit...
7 years ago0112Microsoft has announced a reorganization of its global sales force and marketing operations.
The reorganization is part of the company's effort to place greater focus on artificial intelligence and the cloud as it competes with companies like Amazon and Google's parent company, Alphabet, for customers who want to make use of cloud...
7 years ago091Uber Technologies said it never told a self-driving car executive to download files from his former employer, Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo unit, according to a court filing in a contentious trade secret lawsuit.
Alphabet's Waymo claimed in a lawsuit earlier this year that Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential...
8 years ago051The Alphabet division that operates Google Fiber is laying off or reassigning about nine percent of its staff as well as "pausing" or ending fiber operations in 10 cities where it hadn't yet fully committed to building. In an 11th city, San Francisco, the ISP has pulled back from a fiber deployment that was previously described as...
8 years ago048Google Fiber is reportedly well short of goal to get 5 million subscribers.
Google Fiber has reportedly fallen "well short" of its goal of signing up 5 million subscribers and may be on the verge of making significant staff cuts.
"Last month, Alphabet CEO Larry Page ordered Google Fiber’s chief, Craig Barratt, to halve the size...