Google Assistant is finally coming to G Suite, starting with the Calendar app in beta within Googles enterprise platform. In a blog post, which coincided with the announcement at the company’s Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the tech giant outlined how the integration will work. “Users with G Suite accounts can start testing with Assistant startingRead More
Facebook had designed drones that were able to carry “high-density solid state drives” Highlights Facebook reportedly explored ways to use pocket-sized drones The company discontinued its aerial project “Catalina” a year ago In 2017, Facebook also cancelled its small helicopter drone project As part of its efforts to increase Internet connectivity in areas with inadequateRead More
Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg Calls For More Regulation Of Internet Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg says it’s time to update some rules governing the internet. (File) Washington: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg called on Saturday for governments to play a “more active role” in regulating the internet, urging more countries to adopt versions of sweeping European rulesRead More
Scout24, the Germany-based autos and property marketplace, expressed an interest on Monday in acquisitions if eBay sells its classifieds business following pressure from activist investors to do so. “That is a concrete example we are looking at,” CEO Tobias Hartmann told journalists after Scout24 reported double-digit growth in revenue and profits last year. Scout24 is itself the targetRead More
IBM apologised Tuesday after one of its recruitment Web pages gave applicants the option of using racially insensitive terms to identify themselves. The process took job seekers to a drop-down menu that included “yellow” and “mulatto” with Caucasian, black and other options. The IT services company said the application had been automatically imported fromRead More
Alibaba Group Holding expects to avoid layoffs this year despite China’s economic slowdown, CEO Daniel Zhang said on Friday. The comments contradict Chinese media reports and market speculation about job cuts and a pull-back for China’s Internet sector amid weakening domestic demand and an prolonged trade dispute with the United States. “This year we not onlyRead More
Online image search site Pinterest has confidentially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company and its underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co are planning for a late-June listing and is seeking aRead More
Amazon’s Echo smart speakers are back on the online marketplace, just hours after disappearing possibly due to the new e-commerce regulations. In December last year, the Indian government had tweaked the foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for e-commerce companies in India, directly affecting giants like Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart – the deadline for these changesRead More
The Internet of Things promises to make our lives easier. The idea is to connect simple devices to the Internet so that each of them can talk amongst themselves, relaying useful information to the user. These tiny sensors need a power source, typically a battery, to conduct their business. The type and size of theRead More
Turkey’s competition authority said on Monday it had launched an investigation into whether internet search engine Google broke competition law with algorithms it uses for searches and to target advertisements. The probe follows a complaint that Alphabet’s Googleunit had “abused its dominant position and made the efforts of other companies difficult”, the authority said. The investigationRead More
