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AWS, Microsoft, Google, and IBM: 2 clouds won’t survive

Four firms control the cloud infrastructure market: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, IBM, and Google, according to a survey by market researcher Synergy. AWS held a 31 percent share in the second quarter, followed by Microsoft with 11 percent, IBM with … Continue reading

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Google launches new cloud service for understanding human language

Google’s intelligent cloud developer tools are expanding with the launch of a new Cloud Natural Language API on Wednesday. The service is aimed at helping developers create applications that understand human language. It’s an important move for Google, as public … Continue reading

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AWS buys Cloud9 IDE in snub to Google

Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a popular web-based developer environment that recently aligned itself with the Google Cloud Platform. Cloud9 is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) with a fairly rich feature set for building and deploying applications. Because … Continue reading

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Google Acquires Anvato, A Video Software Startup

Google is looking to bolster its footing in the OTT video market with the purchase of Silicon Valley startup Anvato. The deal will help Google compete with similar services from Microsoft’s Azure cloud. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google teams with UK eye hospital on AI disease diagnosis

Google’s DeepMind AI business unit is hoping to teach computers to diagnose eye disease, using patient data from a U.K. hospital. Using deep learning techniques, DeepMind hopes to improve diagnosis of two eye conditions: age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, … Continue reading

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Facebook’s beefing up its huge army of Messenger bots as Google and Amazon catch up

The bot revolution is happening fast for Facebook. After launching third-party bots in April offering everything from forecasts to your boarding pass, the social network says there are now more than 11,000 bots active on Facebook. To celebrate, Facebook is adding … Continue reading

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Land O’Lakes maps out farming’s future with Google cloud

Farmers looking for ways to increase their crop output are using more technology and relying a little less on intuition. Farmers associated with Land O’Lakes, a dairy-focused, agricultural cooperative in Minnesota, are using online tools and apps to visualize their … Continue reading

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Evernote and Google team up to show Drive-stored content directly inside your notes

Evernote and Google may be competitors when it comes to notes, but the two companies are burying the hatchet to bring some helpful cross-service integration to users with a foot in both worlds. Starting today, any Google Drive content you … Continue reading

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Public cloud review: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Joyent

The message from the cloud has always been simple: Surrender your cares, IT managers, and we’ll handle everything. Forget about skinning your knuckles installing servers, double-checking diesel backups or fretting about 1,000 or 10,000 things that could go wrong. Give … Continue reading

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Google Fiber No Longer Free In Kansas City

Google cuts free Google Fiber for new subscribers in Kansas City, the first market to lose its Basic Internet plan. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google, Verizon Possible Suitors For Yahoo

Embattled Internet pioneer Yahoo has extended its deadline for bidders by a week as it entertains interest from Verizon Communications and possibly Google — both of which may face anti-trust scrutiny. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Microsoft, Google make their pitches to unseat Amazon in the cloud

The past two weeks have been a bonanza of cloud conferences and they provide useful insight into the ongoing IaaS cloud wars between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Google makes its case in the cloud Last … Continue reading

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Google cloud chief on tackling the enterprise

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is looking to strategically tackle the enterprise cloud market by open sourcing some of its internal technologies, embracing a multiplatform design principle and setting what it thinks are reasonable expectations for what its customers should move … Continue reading

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What will Google do to make its cloud appeal to more companies?

When Google executives take the stage Wednesday at the company’s conference for customers of its cloud platform, they’re going to have quite a task in front of them. While the company’s cloud is the choice for some household names like … Continue reading

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Google Runs Custom Networking Chips

Google engineers contributed open source code to the LLVM compile project, revealing the company’s use of in-house silicon. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google is said to endorse ARM server chips, but don’t get excited yet

Google is said to be working with Qualcomm to design servers based on ARM processors, which would be a significant endorsement for ARM as it tries to challenge Intel’s dominance in data centers. Google will give its public backing for … Continue reading

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‘Big bets’ cost Google parent Alphabet $3.6 billion in losses last year

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, racked up $ 3.6 billion in losses last year through investments in “big bets” such as self-driving cars and Internet balloons. The company was known to be spending heavily on these items but revealed … Continue reading

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Improved comments come to Google Apps on mobile

Google added new commenting features to its mobile productivity apps for iOS and Android Wednesday. Computerworld Cloud Computing

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8 free Chrome extensions that enhance Google Drive

If you regularly use Google Drive through the Chrome browser or Chrome OS, here’s a selection of extensions that enhance the features of Google’s cloud storage service. All of these are free and we have tested all of them. To … Continue reading

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Google Goes Beyond Cardboard With Revamped VR Focus

Google is aiming to make virtual reality into a real business with its dedicated VR division now headed by Clay Bavor. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google Apps for Work gets an SMB boost via Kronos integration

Small businesses that use Kronos workforce-management software will soon be able to tap familiar Google tools in their HR efforts thanks to a new integration project now under way. Kronos and Google have teamed up to integrate Google Apps for … Continue reading

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Picking a public cloud? Think beyond AWS, Google, and Microsoft

I often get this question: “Which public cloud should we go with?” That is, should the questioner’s company go with Google, Microsoft, or, more likely, Amazon Web Services? The right answer depends on many, many factors, and the answer is … Continue reading

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Review: Google Cloud flexes flexibility

If one company among all companies is synonymous with cloud-centered computing, it would be Google. From the very beginning, Google built a business located somewhere in the murky depths of the Internet, and its search engine continues to be one … Continue reading

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EFF Accuses Google Of Violating Student Privacy

A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission by the Electronic Frontier Foundation claims Google isn’t living up to its pledge to protect student privacy. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google Previews Android Studio 2.0

The forthcoming revision of Google’s Android IDE includes several features to make app development faster. InformationWeek: Cloud

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Google hires VMware co-founder as cloud chief, aiming for enterprise adoption

VMware co-founder Diane Greene will oversee all of Google’s cloud businesses, including its Cloud Platform and Apps productivity suite, the company announced Thursday.  Greene, who has been on the company’s board of directors for three years, took the position as … Continue reading

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Google advisory council: Right to delist should only apply in EU

To help it handle the EU ruling that forces it to delist certain results about people, Google assembled a team of expert advisors that travelled the continent, seeking out various opinions on how best to implement Europeans’ data protection rights. … Continue reading

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Google graveyard: What Google has killed off in 2015

Six feet deep Google is truly a company that has more technology and products than it can handle sometimes, and in 2015 the company with the recent name change shed a host of tools and products to enable it to … Continue reading

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Amazon upgrades container services to keep up with Google, Docker

Amazon created its ECS (EC2 Container Service) system for launching Docker containers directly in EC2 for two reasons. First, to bring a new feature to its user base, but also to take on competitors like Google’s Container Engine. That dynamic … Continue reading

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Google Offers Cheaper Version of Cloud Services to Run Low Priority Jobs

Some departments in your company do not need cloud computing resources to carry high-performance tasks, right? Because Google has just formatted a service plan for such demands. Google launched Preemptible Virtual Machine, a new cloud service that allows to use … Continue reading

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