August 5, 2020
Amazon inks cloud deal with Airtel in India
Amazon has found a new partner to expand the reach of its cloud services business — AWS — in India, the world’s second largest internet market. On Wednesday,…
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August 3, 2020
Google’s budget Pixel 4a addresses its premium predecessor’s biggest problem
The Pixel line has always felt like more of an underdog product than one should reasonably expect from a corporation as massive as Google. After years of partnerships…
Read articleJuly 31, 2020
Even as cloud infrastructure growth slows, revenue rises over $30B for quarter
The cloud market is coming into its own during the pandemic as the novel coronavirus forced many companies to accelerate plans to move to the cloud, even while…
Read articleJuly 30, 2020
Google is making autofill on Chrome for mobile more secure
Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager…
Read articleJuly 23, 2020
Typewise taps $1M to build an offline next word prediction engine
Swiss keyboard startup Typewise has bagged a $1 million seed round to build out a typo-busting, ‘privacy-safe’ next word prediction engine designed to run entirely offline. No cloud…
Read articleJuly 21, 2020
Combining social shopping rewards and personal finance apps, ex-Snap product gurus launch Meemo
After Wisam Dakka and André Madeira left Snap in 2018, the two longtime product developers and coders cast about for a new app to build. Looking around they…
Read articleJuly 16, 2020
Google’s latest R&D project is Shoploop, a mobile video shopping platform
Google’s latest experiment is a video shopping platform designed to introduce consumers to new products in under 90 seconds. The company today is launching Shoploop, a project from…
Read articleJuly 15, 2020
Gmail for G Suite gets deep integrations with Chat, Meet, Rooms and more
Google is launching a major update to its G Suite productivity tools today that will see a deep integration of Gmail, Chat, Meet and Rooms on the web…
Read articleJuly 14, 2020
Google Play Pass expands outside the US, adds more titles and annual pricing
Google Play Pass, the Android alternative to subscription-based game store Apple Arcade, is expanding. Launched in September 2019 with more than 350 apps and games, Play Pass today…
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Google Cloud launches Confidential VMs
At its virtual Cloud Next ’20 event, Google Cloud today announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of the company’s work around confidential…
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