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...Alphabet deflates Loon projectLoon was Google X lab’s dream of delivering global internet access with a fleet of balloons floating on the edge of space....
...Where all you can do after reading a tweet, or an article, is type the subject into Google and hope there’s more material out there waiting to be read....
...Where will Google fit Fitbit?...
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...“Apple was not in the music industry, Google was not in the mobile phone industry and Amazon was not in the groceries business — until they were,” Mr Kapito said at Davos last year....
...Silicon Valley companies, including Google, which just announced an AI lab in Beijing, are well aware of this....
...It is using this to improve its Google Maps products and possibly to blend with other data sets....
...The Google-owned site has established itself as the go-to place for music videos: almost half of visitors to the platform end up watching a clip from Vevo....
...In 1996 a piece of space junk tore off a 2m chunk of a French spy satellite....
...Google and HTC have long worked together, most recently on the Pixel phone, which was not co-branded....
...“Once infected, Mansoor’s phone would have become a digital spy in his pocket, capable of employing his iPhone’s camera and microphone to snoop on activity in the vicinity of the device, recording his WhatsApp...
...Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, sensor technology and computing power, labs from Silicon Valley to Tokyo are making huge strides in robotics that will transform industries from healthcare...
...Forwarded Google App Streaming Danny Sullivan of Marketing Land says this is a big move in building the “Web of Apps”. Slack is Inc.’s company of the year....
...So the recent explosion in hardware start-ups has produced a crop of incubator and accelerator programmes, such as Lemnos Labs and Haxlr8r....
...our phone calls....
...At the same time, however, computer hackers and industrial spies are becoming ever craftier at stealing company data, so keeping the mountains of new information safe is becoming trickier....
...Alexander Lebedev, the KGB spy-turned-tycoon, bought control of London’s Evening Standard a day after Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications magnate, had thrown a $250m lifeline to The New York Times...
...From next month, subscribers to Verizon’s V Cast service will be able to view pre-selected video clips on their mobile phones....
...Why did Eisner so mistrust Roy Disney that he assigned Disney company executives to spy on him?...
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