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...Revenue rose 15 per cent in the first quarter to $80.5bn from $69.8bn a year ago, the Silicon Valley giant reported on Thursday, beating analysts’ expectations for $79bn....
...The company is testing the ability to ask its assistant questions and to recognise objects seen by its cameras, with a view to rolling out the features more widely in 2024....
...“Taking the long-term view, we will be able to service information needs in a deeper way, and I am pretty excited about what’s ahead.”...
...In early 2017, two Google research scientists, Ashish Vaswani and Jakob Uszkoreit, were in a hallway of the search giant’s Mountain View campus, discussing a new idea for how to improve machine translation...
...Some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers have spent the last decade writing code for driverless cars to expertly manoeuvre around the most complex streets in San Francisco....
...Google, which has until September to respond to the preliminary charges, said it disagreed with the commission’s view and would “respond accordingly”....
...Echoing a widely-held view in antitrust circles, Michael Carrier, a law professor at Rutgers University, said it marked “the most significant antitrust monopoly case since Microsoft”....
...Years of low valuations have helped shift the view of Japanese authorities, who are focused on underperforming companies....
...“We believe BDT & MSD’s long-term view and deep expertise in supporting family enterprise makes it an ideal partner to help us reach these goals and accelerate global growth, including in the US market,”...
...The overnight implosions of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic are cautionary tales of hubris and fragility....
...The weather-related impact on interest rates also bit in to broader markets this week through another channel, when California-based Silicon Valley Bank, a small, tech-focused lender, suffered a large loss...
...Baker is managing principal at Broadmoor Consulting LLC and a senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School....
...Cathie Wood has strong views on INNOVATION....
...These are uncertain times for Silicon Valley. Tech companies are firing staff who they hired in the pandemic. Twitter, under Elon Musk, has repelled advertisers....
...San Francisco’s Silicon Valley Bank faced withdrawal demands of $40bn of its $170bn deposit book in the 24 hour period before regulators seized control....
...These frictions have led to a stark contrast in how Silicon Valley’s tech companies view the future of working....
...To their fans, they have a clearer view than most of the big opportunities thrown up by today’s technology shifts — and are willing to place larger bets as a result....
...Amazon disputed the characterisation of Jassy’s view. But a spokesman said the company did feel Microsoft “should be scrutinised like any other business”....
...Like many others, we’ve engaged openly and constructively with policymakers throughout the legislative process to put across our point of view.” ...
...The continent has been slow to develop tech unicorns, but can Silicon Valley’s creativity and cash spark a winning streak?...
...Google said part of its investment would include repurposing its existing office space, including the creation of “campfire” spaces with a view to “deintensify” the office....
...A company which feels it has to define the purpose of Hellmann’s mayonnaise has in our view clearly lost the plot....
...Google has invested $1bn in CME Group as part of a pact that will see one of the world’s biggest exchange operators shift more of its trading operations into the Silicon Valley tech behemoth’s “cloud” data...
...The wallet was created by Nod Labs who are a team based in Silicon Valley in the United States....
...The FT View is that those drawing up public sector budgets should resist the temptation to use AI as a quick fix to cut staff and economise. 5....
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