Google finance boss goes out on a high March 11, 2015 THE PHRASE “spending more time with my family” is normally code for “I’ve been asked to leave by someone more important than me”. But for Google CFO Patrick Pichette, he really means it. The exiting finance boss said he made the decision after climbing Kilimanjaro, with his wife, who wanted to do more travelling. “When [...]
Google Shop London in pictures: Inside the search giant’s first ever physical shop on Tottenham Court Road March 11, 2015 It may have succeeded as one of the most successful companies of the 21st century by offering services online, but Google is making a move offline for the first time – right here in London with its first real life shop. Based at Currys PC World on Tottenham Court Road, the “shop within a shop” [...]
Google’s share price under departing finance chief Patrick Pichette rocketed March 11, 2015 Google’s long-standing finance chief Patrick Pichette has announced he’s leaving the tech company to travel the world. Pichette is one of the most senior executives, with the tech giant having overseen the firm’s finances for the last six and a half years. Since then, the value of Google stock has rocketed by almost two thirds [...]
Google’s Eric Schmidt: Humans are better off than ever – and it’s down to technology March 6, 2015 Humankind has never had it so good and we should be thankful for the role of technology in getting us to that point, according to Google’s Eric Schmidt. Speaking at the WorldPost's Future of Work conference, the executive chairman of the software giant said he wanted to talk about “why we are so unhappy – [...]
Mobile World Congress 2015: Google aims to launch its own mobile network March 2, 2015 Google is set to launch its own US mobile network “in the next few months” as part of a move to spur innovation among operators. The search giant’s vice president of android and chrome, Sundar Pichai, told telecoms executives at Mobile World Congress that Google would rent network capacity and launch a consumer-facing network to [...]
Google researchers propose a new method for ranking search results, prioritising facts rather than reputation March 2, 2015 A team at Google has suggested a new model for search, which is based on measuring the accuracy of facts in a web page, rather than its reputation. At the moment, the position of a website partly depends on the number of other websites linking to it, so that the more times a page is [...]
Google Ventures just invested $60m in Paul McCartney and Sam Smith’s music rights company Kobalt February 27, 2015 More fuel to add to the Apple vs Google music streaming fire. Google's investment arm, Google Ventures, has just invested $60m (£39m) in music rights and publishing company Kobalt. As part of the funding round, the business also got investment from Dell founder Michael Dell. The company, which has more than 8,000 songwriters and more [...]
Man Vs machine: One chart showing how artificial intelligence created by Google’s Deep Mind beat humans at classic 80s Atari games February 26, 2015 Google just made a massive leap forward in developing artificial intelligence (AI) – with the help of classic Atari games like Space Invaders and Pong. Researchers working at the secretive London company Deep Mind have succeeded in creating a computer program which can learn how to play computer games, with no input whatsoever from humans. [...]
Google united: Tech giant will reform to face European challenges February 25, 2015 It’s all change for Google, as the search giant looks to re-group ready to face a wave of challenges to its European operations. Google’s two separate European arms are to be united under one banner with Mat Brittin, who headed up the group’s northern and western European arm, given command. Leaders of Google’s operations in [...]
Google is poised to unveil a new look California HQ – and it has Heatherwick Studios and Bjarke Ingels on the case February 25, 2015 Google is expected to reveal its plans for new headquarters in California this week, and the company behind the iconic cauldron at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games is behind it. London-based Heatherwick Studio and award-winning Danish architect Bjarke Ingels are thought to have put together "a series of canopylike buildings" for the [...]
