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Google buys game developer Typhoon Studios
Google seems to be shopping for game studios as it courts consumer interest for its Stadia game-streaming platform, announcing Thursday…
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YouTube Music adds three new personalized playlists, including its Spotify Discover Weekly rival
YouTube Music is taking on Spotify, Apple Music and others with the launch of three personalized playlists, including its own…
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Apple Arcade’s new franchise, Fortnite takes on Google Play, the Disney+ app footprint
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they…
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Reliance Industries acquires a majority stake in SaaS startup NowFloats for $20M
Reliance Industries, one of India’s largest industrial houses, has acquired a majority stake in NowFloats, an Indian startup that helps…
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‘Disney Plus’ was Google’s top US trending search term in 2019
Google today released its annual “Year in Search” data that takes a look back at some of the most notable…
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Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
Google Cloud today announced the launch of its new E2 family of compute instances. These new instances, which are meant…
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Google Assistant gets a customized alarm, based on weather and time
Alarm clocks were one of the most obvious implementations since the introduction of the smart screen. Devices like Lenovo’s Smart…
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Mindstrong Health hires leadership team with all-star tech product experience
Mindstrong Health is tackling one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare: Severe mental illness, commonly referred to as SMI…
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Google employee activist says she’s been fired
Google has terminated Rebecca Rivers, an employee activist the company put on indefinite administrative leave this month, Rivers tweeted this…
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Alphabet’s X details a garbage-sorting bot that’s part of its plan to make robots an everyday thing
Alphabet subsidiary X, which is the former Google X, focuses exclusively on ambitious “moonshots,” or applications of tech you might…
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