Zagat, the restaurant review guide owned by Alphabet’s Google, could be put up for sale, according to CNBC reports published Wednesday (Jan. 3). Google has held informal talks with several companies over the past few months about selling Zagat. The search engine giant paid $151 million for...
LG Electronics has announced a new line of speakers, including one that will have the Google Assistant built in, slated for launch at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018. CES is an annual tech conference held in Las Vegas each January. In a press release, Thursday...
Google said in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday (Dec. 27) that it will continue to allow websites to opt out from their data being scraped and displayed in its search results, despite the expiration of their commitment to do so....
Google is helping travelers using Google services find better rates on trips, flights and hotels by expanding its booking features. These new features will now tell users the best time to buy an airline ticket or to determine when room rates are higher, among other...
In a world where data and the internet go hand in hand — where commerce is done increasingly via mobile means — Google unveiled its plan to bring another billion users to the connected realm in India. On Tuesday (Dec. 5), the company said several new services...
A vice president at Alphabet’s Google says that the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data in various fields will pose new challenges to the governments regulating those industries. “It’s going to be a big issue,” Geoffrey Hinton said at a Reuters Newsmaker event in...
Invoicing for small businesses (SMBs) just got easier: Gmail now supports integrated eInvoicing using Intuit tools. In addition, the Google Calendar mobile app now integrates with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant. According to news from eInvoicing Platform, prior to the integration, SMBs had to manually...
Alphabet, the parent of Google, said Tuesday (Nov. 28) that those searching on Google can filter results via a new finance tab. According to news from Reuters, the new tab will work like its images and news tabs and will give users a lot of the same...
Just in time for the holiday season, Google is expanding its mobile shopping experience, including showing buying guides for broad categories and adding more information for specific product searches. “When you search for a specific product, Google.com now shows you other helpful information, like related...