Google's acquisition of DeepMind got us thinking - speculating is actually more appropriate - about the company's past acquisitions, and what they might be building towards...Google is becoming more active in robotics and AI. What this means exactly, however, is hard to say. It will be an interesting few years.
Google has made another high dollar acquisition. Recode.net reported this weekend that Google has purchased a secretive artificial intelligence company called DeepMind. According to Recode's Liz Gannes, Google paid $400 million dollars for the company. While Google has now confirmed the acquisition mums the word on the dollar amount. DeepMind was founded in London by [...]
Update 2:47pm: Gmail is back again this time with more functionality then 15 minutes ago. You can now send messages. Don't hold your breath though Gmail is still showing up as problematic on the Google Apps Dashboard. Update 2:40pm: Gmail is again totally down. Update: 2:33pm: Gmail will let you in now and let [...]
Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]
If seeing hundreds of exhibitors at the 2014 International CES wasn't credit enough to the movement called "the internet of things" than maybe Google's $3.2 billion dollar purchase of Nest Labs is. Google announced on Monday that they acquired Nest Labs and their team led by Tony Faddell and Matt Rogers. Nest Labs created the [...]
We didn't see a nationwide roll out of Google's flagship smart eyewear, Google Glass. However in the 11th hour, Google did release invitations to their Google Glass Explorer program to their Google Play Music All Access subscribers. Now for just $1500 those Google customers who were early adopters of the music program can purchase Google [...]
This year we can expect some major changes in the wireless landscape. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is taking a very pro-consumer approach to his role in the Wireless Industry. He's championed the movement to get carriers to unlock phones and make them easier for the customer to take them to another carrier when their contract [...]
Google was in the news a lot in 2013. From Google Glass to self driving cars, to their forthcoming Google Gem watch everywhere you turned there was something Google-y being reported on. Google also saw a huge spike when the Edward Snowden/NSA stories started breaking. Google also saw a monumental decision concerning Google Books and [...]
This may be the holiday season Google has been waiting for with their Chromebook computers. With everything moved to the cloud, the computing requirements for today's laptops are much less than what they used to be, and that strategy is paying off. Venturebeat reported over the weekend that Chromebooks saw a major surge this holiday [...]
Last month Google announced that it was opening up its translation service to all Android developers enabling them to offer their apps to any customer in any language from third-party service providers. This is a big deal in the app store wars. Here’s why… More than seventy-percent of customers prefer to buy products in their [...]
