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After testing around the world since 2018, the new Google Shopping homepage is live in the U.S. . The new shopping experience launched by Alphabet’s Google focuses on personalization and browsing, 9to5 Google reports. Google plans to integrate its Express delivery service into the new page, the report said.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Google is experimenting with new features to drive online shopping dollars to YouTube and is encouraging some creators there to tag and track any products used in their videos. The coronavirus has also triggered a slowdown in advertising spend, which has affected Google’s bottom line.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

20) that Google faces an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice — focused on the core search business — makes us wonder what, if anything, might happen to other business lines that, though nascent, represent bids to join and at the same time foster the connected economy. News Tuesday (Oct. buy products) those efforts.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Cashplus is upgrading its mobile app with the Google maps spend tracking feature, the company announced on Thursday (Feb. The Spending Insights tool uses data from Google Maps to find out where and when a payment was made. Transactions are easy to spot and show identifying information like brand logos.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Google issued a stark warning last week about the state of cybersecurity: Phishing attacks are on the rise and continue to take advantage of vulnerabilities resulting from the global pandemic. The warning coincided with separate reports related to Google and cybersecurity. Taking into account the estimated 30.2

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JULY 15, 2020

Google , in late May, reported a resurgence of hacking and phishing incidents. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) identified more than a dozen government-backed “hack-for-hire” firms attacking healthcare and finance firms in the past few months.

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MAY 28, 2020

In today’s top news, Google reported a resurgence of hacking and phishing attempts in April, and tech companies are making deals at their fastest pace since 2015. Google Reports Resurgence in Pandemic Hacking, Phishing. Plus, Samsung and SoFi have partnered to offer a new mobile money management tool.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

After bans brought about by Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple, Google also is seeking to make so-called third-party cookies “obsolete.” Google said in a post that it desired to create alternative tools to “sustain an ad-supported web” in such a fashion that would “render third-party cookies obsolete” within the timeframe of two years.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It also has to contend with Google, relegating it to third place. Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. Ditto for Google. With Amazon leading in the voice-activated speaker market thanks to Alexa and her slew of skills, Apple is trying to fight back.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other rivals, such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea , say the 5G tech isn't as close as Reliance Jio says, and that it could be another two years away due to India's lacking ecosystem and the expensive price tag, the report says. trillion from investors including Google and Facebook to go toward the project.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Google is expanding its advertising reach, bringing shoppable ads to Google Images search results. According to a report in Adweek, the shoppable ads will enable retailers to tag product images , and when users hover over them, they will find information including the brand name and the price for the product.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

With a redesign of Google Shopping, the platform is receiving multiple new features such as options to track prices, shop local stores and come across style inspiration via Google Lens. With an image of an outfit that consumers like, Google Lens can now pull up other “style ideas” from the internet. search field.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Meanwhile, an email-based scam is promising to stop a barrage of junk and spam ads from flooding a publisher’s Google account if the publisher pays up in bitcoin, KrebonSecurity reported Monday.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Google dealt with a similar lawsuit in December and it was dismissed. The key issue is Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions,” which let users tag friends in previously uploaded photos. “We have always disclosed our use of face recognition technology and that people can turn it on or off at any time,” a spokesman said.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Google has announced an array of new Assistant features for app developers, including new push notifications, daily updates and additional language support. Assistant now allows for speaker-to-phone transfer, a new API that makes it possible to start an action on a Google Home speaker and complete it on the phone.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

A General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint shows that Google may have misused people’s personal data and categorized them in highly sensitive ways, according to reports. Google’s ad technology apparently labels users depending on their internet activity, noted a report in TechCrunch.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Bloomberg reported that the statement will escalate a feud between Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , whom Musk tagged in the tweet. Amazon has actually been making more deals, alongside fellow giants like Google and Facebook. “Monopolies are wrong!” ” he said in the tweet.

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JUNE 14, 2016

Weighing in on Amazon search interest data collected from Google, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster , who is ranked No. 6, put a $800 price tag on Amazon’s share value, CNBC reported. According to our analysis of Google trends search data, Amazon’s unit growth should show almost no deceleration during the Jun-16 quarter.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Bloomberg reported that the statement will escalate a feud between Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , whom Musk tagged in the tweet. Amazon has actually been making more deals, alongside fellow giants like Google and Facebook. “Monopolies are wrong!” ” he said in the tweet.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

10), claiming that Google was buying Apple for the unbelievable bargain price of $9 billion. According to Finextra , the false Dow Jones stories reported that the incredible deal was sealed by now deceased Steve Jobs in 2010 and “gives each Google shareholder nine shares of Apple stock … Google employees said, “Yay.””

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Following similar events held by Apple and Amazon , Google is hosting its own major product event Wednesday in California, where the company is expected to unveil several new products. CNBC reports that the highlight of the event is expected to be the unveiling of two new Google smartphones : the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The lines are blurring between competition and collaboration as Google reaches across enemy lines to partner with Apple. The search engine giant extended not one, but three olive branches to the luxury tech-maker this week, but could it all be part of a grander plan on Google’s part to take the tech giant’s place? Do You Dream Of Jean?

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JULY 26, 2018

Last year, Google and Levi’s teamed up for a smart jean jacket selling for $350. Like any regular denim jacket, you can wash it (just remove the snap tag); it’s durable, designed to be comfortable for cycling and it’ll keep you warm on and off the bike,” wrote Google.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Online marketplace eBay has launched a new service in partnership with Google , according to news from Chain Store Age on Wednesday (Nov. Through the collaboration, Google Assistant users can now shop on eBay by saying “Ask eBay…” The command will launch a search through the eBay Shopping Assistant on Google Home devices.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Currently rated 3-stars by users and tagged as the “#1 Best Seller” in Amazon’s formidable stable of wearable tech, the world’s largest online retailer is clearly moving units of Halo out the door. “If Google – Fitbit Combination Finally Gets a Look. Thirteen months after Google’s $2.1

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MAY 2, 2019

Google has announced the launch of CallJoy , a cloud-based phone agent that allows small business owners to measure, improve and automate customer service. With CallJoy, small businesses have access to the same customer service options that have historically only been available to larger corporations.

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The tool for SMBs and developers starts at $599, reports said, with Google Places API and Facebook Places Graph offering similar services. The following year, the firm revealed an extended partnership with Twitter for precise location tagging attached to collections of tweets, not only individual tweets.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The pain is particularly pronounced in China , where the price tag of its latest iPhones and local competition have been weighing on demand. But diversifying beyond the iPhone may not be easy.

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MAY 15, 2019

Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Today’s 5-In-1 has the latest numbers from Google about sites being hacked, some pretty big price tag potential for the future of unattended retail, the latest figures from the CFPB about hidden payday lending fees, what the EU is accusing Google of, and numbers that show the impact of Amazon’s latest fashion tie up.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Security researcher Oliver Hough told TechCrunch that the site’s Google-hosted ElasticSearch database was left online without a password, exposing hundreds of thousands of customer and staff records. Other clients were tagged as “dangerous,” while others were blocked due to “police enquiries.”

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APRIL 14, 2019

The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fact that competition is fierce to land exclusive rights to top content. Google and Tencent — as well as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft — are operating in the same area. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whatever else one can say about the slew of products Google set loose yesterday at its big event in San Francisco — no one will ever say that Google did not think big enough, or that it has decided to wade into the wildly competitive world of devices by half-measure or two. So what was seen — and what were the early reviews?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

A massive malware campaign infiltrated Google Play last week, sending fraudulent text messages and charging up to 21 million people for fake services. It used a “packing” technique to compress code with encryption to evade Google’s security filters. Google agreed in Dec. Google agreed in Dec. ExpensiveWall. Take My Money.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Because now our competitors are Google, Microsoft, IBM — tech giants — but none of them are independent of their customers. Clarifai offers customers an image and video recognition API that users can teach to automatically tag, organize and search visual content using machine learning. “If

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Think back a few short years to the first heavily-hyped wearable by a major player, Google Glass. Serious fitness buffs seem to flock to Garmin wearables despite their rather high price tag and a near-universal observation that its screen is fairly “blah.”. And those were just the big headlines. What’s Next.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Despite its high price tag and the hype before its launch, the HomePod is not compatible with Android devices or streaming services like Spotify that operate outside the Apple Music sphere. The Sonos One now comes with Alexa, and Google Assistant is expected to arrive this year. There is a very close second, though,” WSJ noted.

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