Tag: Google
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PayPal leverages Google Cloud to power billion transactions
PayPal’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sri Shivananda, has said his company is leveraging on the Google Cloud platform to power billions of transactions across the globe. Google’s Engineering Vice President, Ben Treynor Sloss, quotes the PayPal’s senior executive as saying in a blog post published on Tuesday. “At PayPal, we process billions…
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Amit Fulay ‘unfriends’ Google, accepts Facebook job offer
The Head of Product for Google Allo and Google Duo, Amit Fulay, has announced leaving the Internet search giant to join number one social media platform, Facebook. Fulay took to microblogging platform, Twitter yesterday to post about his resignation from the Mountain View company, hinting at Facebook, he will be joining a product development team.…
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Malicious extensions: Your Google Chrome is safer than ever
Internet search giant, Google, has taken steps farther to protect users of its foremost web browser, Chrome, from malicious extensions. Google introduced a new method to detect confusing and deceptive browser extensions on the web browser. The search giant stated in a blog post that in the next few weeks, it will start using machine…
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Google’s high-speed Internet Balloon crashes in Kenya
Google’s high-altitude Internet balloon, launched by Google to provide high-speed Internet in remote parts of the earth under Project Loon, has crashed in a Kenya farm, a media report said on Saturday. The balloon, a part of a 10-balloon batch, was deployed for testing in Nakuru, Nanyuki, Nyeri, and Marsabit in July 2017. It crashed…
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Shell, Facebook, Google, Apple, other 96 best places to work in 2018
Fastest growing jobs and recruiting website, Glassdoor, has ranked employees choice best places to work in 2018. According to Glassdoor, the ranking system is based on “a proprietary awards algorithm”, which is designed to calculate the “quantity, quality, and consistency of company reviews submitted by employees between November 1, 2016, and October 22, 2017”. While…
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Extremist content: Google reveals new plans for YouTube
U.S. IT giant Google will increase the number of employees engaged in the detection of extremist content on its video-sharing service YouTube, as well as other materials violating the service’s rules, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said. In June, Google announced additional measures to counter the spread of extremist data via YouTube. The company voiced plans…
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What is Datally, Google’s new mobile data-saving app all about?
Google has inaugurated a new product known as Datally, a mobile data-saving app that helps one to understand, control and save data into the emerging market. Google Country Manager, Mrs Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor in a media briefing in Lagos, said that with Datally, one could save and do more with data. TheNewsGuru reports that an emerging…
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Top list 2017: TheNewsGuru mobile app performing best on Google Play Store as Google shares best apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, books of 2017
In continuing with its annual tradition, Google on Friday announced the best and most popular apps, games, music, movies, TV shows, books of 2017 on the Google Play apps store. While Game of Thrones emerged the most popular TV show on Google Play for the second year in a row, Rick and Morty and The…
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Explore the International Space Station with Google Street View
Google Street View now allows users to see the International Space Station (ISS) as close as they can see the streets of London from their homes. The search giant recently launched the new option for Google Street View that allows users to see the 15 connected modules of the ISS. Thomas Pesquet, an astronaut at…