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JPMORGAN: Amazon’s 'fast-growing' ad business is putting pressure on Google
The growth of Amazon's ad business might have spooked investors in Google parent Alphabet, with the stock down 9% since the company reported second-quarter earnings.
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Google bans F-word in company documents and URLs, as leaders continue to pacify employee communications
Google has banned some references to sex acts in internal documents and URLs, according to a report.
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YouTube's CEO is pleading for users to help fight in its war against European regulators — and the move reveals just how dire things have become for Google overseas
Europe has turned sour on US tech companies. Google faces fines, probes and new rules that can hurt the company's bottomline. YouTube's CEO on Monday asked for the help of video creators fighting proposed copyright legislation that could heap more costs onto YouTube and similar sites.
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This chart shows how Google is transforming from ad company into a diversified tech colossus
BI PRIME: Not satisfied to be the biggest and most successful advertising company of all time, Google seeks to diversify into a plethora of businesses. This year-by-year chart illustrates how Google is evolving.
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Steve Jobs fanatics may be able to buy a toilet, thermostat and other random household objects that were part of the Apple founder's old Silicon Valley mansion
The Town of Woodside has ended up in control of 150 items that once belonged to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The fixtures, which include sconces, a chandelier and yes, a toilet, were salvaged from Jobs' Jackling House after it was demolished 2011.
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YouTube's latest partnership shows how it's had to learn to play a different game to win in the music business
BI PRIME: Music is vital to YouTube as music videos are typically the most watched fare on the site. But the relationship between YouTube and the music industry has always been a tense one. Helping artists sell concert tickets is one way YouTube can help change that.
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An ex-Googler went on an epic 5-day tweetstorm that gives a brutal inside look at the backstabbing and politics at the company
A web designer pulls back the curtain on what it was like working on Google+, the company's seemingly dysfunctional and now defunct social network.
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Google will charge phone makers money for its Android apps in Europe — an unprecedented change that it says is to comply with regulators
Under pressure from regulators in Europe, Google said Tuesday it will no longer require phone makers that pre-install Google App Store to provide preferential treatment to Google's apps. Instead, the company will begin charging manufacturers for Android apps.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says employee protests against the company's work with US military had little impact on management: 'We don't run the company by referendum'
At a San Francisco tech gathering on Monday, Google's CEO answered questions about the internal turmoil this year caused by Google's work with the US military and the company's possible re-entry into China.
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Google cloud boss Diane Greene won't attend Saudi investment event, throwing a wrench into Google's plans to tap new revenue in the country
BI PRIME: The Saudi government is accused of murdering a journalist in Turkey and a growing number of US business leaders, who were scheduled to attend an investment conference in Saudi Arabia have announced they are pulling out. Google's Diane Greene, who is scheduled to speak, is not among them.
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In the Google+ case, the lack of transparency from Google is likely the biggest problem for managers, experts say
Google has a believable explanation for how it left personal-profile data exposed, and it says the data was never used for nefarious purposes. But the company's explanation of why it didn't alert the public has several big issues, including an internal memo.
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Google shutters the Google+ social network after Wall Street Journal reports a huge security lapse
Google shutters the Google+ social network after Wall Street Journal reports that outside developers could access data for hundreds of thousands of users..
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai went hat in hand to the Pentagon to patch up its relationship with the military after an employee backlash
Google's top brass has never tried to hide its willingness to work with the military, just not on weapons. The meeting was an effort to try to save Google's chances of inking contracts that don't violate its AI principles.
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YouTube's plan to replace cable TV just took a big leap forward — but it also exposed a critical turf war for the future of television
BI PRIME: The good news is that YouTube TV signed the vast majority of content owners on its multi-channel service to a new DVR feature. The bad news is that CBS is the only one that opted out. The broadcaster continues to act as if the world hasn't fallen in love with ad-skipping technology.
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YouTube TV is rolling out a bunch of new features to woo cord-cutters away from cable
YouTube TV continues to improve the multichannel service that has already received positive reviews.
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We spent a day with China's rock star of AI, whose new book says China's machine learning superiority will subjugate Americans to 'technological colonization'
BI PRIME: Wherever he speaks, Kai-Fu Lee draws big crowds and garners much praise from Silicon Valley to Beijing. The former president of Google China is one of AI's biggest boosters as well as one of its chief critics. He also has much to say about Google's current ambitions in China.
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Google's cloud business may have finally found the weapon it needs to beat Amazon's AWS
BI PRIME: If Google Cloud can overcome the many technical challenges of streaming video games to many users, the market segment could prove to be a boon.
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Google's longtime advertising chief is leaving after 15 years to join VC firm Greylock
Sridhar Ramaswamy, one of the people responsible for Google’s success in advertising, is leaving and will be replaced by Prabhakar Raghavan, a Vice President of Engineering at Google, the company said.
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Google is slashing prices of its European shopping ads and an analyst says it could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue
BI PRIME: An analyst with Baird Equity Research says that Google may see a short-term shortfall in ad revenue after cutting prices on shopping ads in Europe. The EU last year found Google had violated antitrust laws and the discounts on ads are part of Google's effort to comply with a competition directive.
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Google is building a media and entertainment empire — here are 10 stars leading the effort
BI PRIME: YouTube has few peers when it comes to discovering raw talent, and has been one of the dominant players in digital music for a long time. But Google Home is becoming a popular way to listen to music and YouTube TV is on the rise. Here are some of the people making this all happen.
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