Google makes bid to acquire Fitbit
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device maker Fitbit, as it eyes a slice of the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Google owner Alphabet has made an offer to acquire U.S. wearable device maker Fitbit, as it eyes a slice of the crowded market for fitness trackers and smartwatches, people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Google on Monday announced that it would neutralize carbon emissions from delivering consumer hardware by next year and include recycled plastic in each of its products by 2022.
Waymo is rolling out amenities to entice riders to use its self-driving taxis, creating a potential route to profitability in a money-losing industry.
Alphabet's Google, the largest U.S. digital advertising platform, is facing increased competition from sites where people purchase products and places thought to be safe from potentially offensive content, advertising buyers say.
Google parent company Alphabet has announced that former chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt and former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene will step down from the search company's board in June.
How then will pedestrians be confident they have been seen by the CAV’s sensors? How will other road users be aware of the vehicles intentions? Such questions are now being considered by the major players in self-driving vehicle technology, and they are coming up with a range of solutions.
A shareholder's lawsuit filed in a US court says the board of Google parent Alphabet played a direct role in covering up sexual misconduct claims against two top executives in 2014 and 2016.
The White House yesterday launched a national strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in a bid to secure global leadership in “the next technological revolution”.
The US House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to take testimony from Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's YouTube unit and Twitter Inc on whether social media companies are filtering content for political reasons, the committee chairman said.
ZTE may not be able to use Google's Android operating system in its mobile devices after the U.S. limited ZTE's access to American suppliers this week, a source familiar with the matter said, potentially adding another drag on U.S. sales for the Chinese firm.
X — the ‘moonshot factory’ of Google parent company Alphabet — has graduated a new business focused on improving enterprise information security by leveraging machine learning.
Alphabet Inc's Waymo sought at least US$1 billion in damages and a public apology from Uber Technologies Inc as conditions for settling its high-profile trade secret lawsuit against the ride-services company
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said late on Friday it had approved Alphabet Inc's application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons.
Google Glass is back, with a focus squarely on business use cases for the wearable device.
Reporting its third-quarter earnings, Google also talked about how vital machine learning will be to its future.