This week, there have been rumors that Google is interested in acquiring Roku. Here's what we know. Rumors about Google buying Roku aren't new. There has ...
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Microsoft is closing Mixer, its Twitch competitor, after nearly three years. Most of its streamers will move to Facebook Gaming, but its partners are free to decide ...
On Saturday 18th July Aldi will kick off its 'Entertainer' edition of Special Buys, which will include a 65-inch 4K UHD Android TV from Bauhn for $699, as well as a ...
PRNewswire/ -- In a time of a pandemic, new innovations solutions to health problems are in need. One group of devices that got more attention as a result are...
Does $199 buy you a phone that will play games, handle video, and deliver software updates, in addition to handling everyday tasks? The Nokia 5.3 says yes.
Ten years ago this week, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. That figure seems quaint now (it equates to WhatsApp being worth about 13 YouTubes) but ...
Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered into a multiyear cloud partnership with Google that will see YouTube become the exclusive streaming ...
YouTube's homepage will be filled with ads supporting Donald Trump's reelection campaign on election day 2020. He did the same thing ahead of the first ...
Google will pay video game publisher Activision Blizzard $160 million over three years to exclusively stream the company's esports leagues on YouTube, ...
Google LLC today beefed up its cloud capabilities with the acquisition of Appsheet, which sells tools that enable so-called “citizen developers” to build ...
"Google will never sell any personal information to third parties; and you get to decide how your information is used." - Sundar Pichai Sound familiar? Although ...
In an unprecedented move to reassure customers and flag the potential for misinformation about COVID-19 on their platforms, all of the major social media ...
A Borrell study this year found that 67 percent of local advertisers are expected to increase their spends on digital video. As the 2020 election nears, this.
If you combined the fastest and slowest types of social media, the result could be both must-see and never-forgotten. YouTube lacks short-form, frequently ...
Wearables brand Fitbit is the latest to join Google's family after it was acquired for $2.1 billion. Interestingly, Google has paid less to acquire YouTube in 2006 ...
One of the most thrown around terms within the YouTube community is “demonetization.” Now, YouTube is piloting a new program that will let creators sell ad ...
YouTube may struggle to win TV buyers, who see the app as a mobile- and desktop-first platform. Time spent streaming YouTube on TV sets is up 80% year ...
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported Google was mulling the acquisition of social media app Firework, a move seen as countering the rise of TikTok.
Google parent company Alphabet is reportedly in talks to buy wearable company Fitbit, Reuters reports. There is currently no confirmation that the deal will ...
Google's Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house that made Journey to the Savage ...
Google Inc. has laid speculation to rest--it will buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock transaction. YouTube operates a wildly popular Web site where original ...
Social networks are in for a rude copyright awakening. A new European Union law called Article 17 essentially eradicates safe harbor and requires that they've ...
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for children, said ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. said Monday that it has agreed to acquire privately held YouTube Inc., the No. 1 Internet video-sharing site on ...
It would have been the most talked-about story to hit the music business in decades. Three years ago, the world found out that Google had made a play to buy ...
Google has spent tens of billions of dollars on buying in new ideas, products and people. WIRED takes a look at whether the company's splurges have paid off.
Google's plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and federal antitrust ...
Google LLC today notified customers that App Maker, the low-code application development *service* included in G Suite, will be discontinued on Jan. 19, 2021.
Google is engaged with one of the U.S.'s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of ...
Netflix will lose 10 million subscribers next year if it doesn't lower prices. That means it could soon do the unthinkable. And that presents a huge opportunity.
The most remarkable thing about the abrupt exit of Google's co-founders from the top of the tech giant they spent 21 years building was how low-key it was.
Major music companies are allegedly spending tens of thousands of dollars to boost view counts on the world's largest streaming *service*. How the companies ...
Sony's PlayStation Now was supposed to deliver the cloud gaming future after the company spent hundreds of millions of dollars purchasing pioneers Gaikai ...
In a move that's equal parts obvious and shocking, Google announced Friday that it is acquiring Fitbit, bringing an array of devices into the Wear OS maker's tent.
What the heck is TheSoul Publishing? I'm still honestly not sure. Here's what I do know: Measured in terms of views and subscribers, it had the third-largest ...
YouTube is focusing this year's upfront pitch on its most TV-like *content* in an effort to convince advertisers that it can compete with traditional TV. YouTube has ...
Alphabet is arguably the world's most forward-thinking company. I'd put its “crystal ball” up against any other investor or company on the planet, including ...
Google, the internet search giant, has agreed to acquire YouTube, the California-based video start-up, for $1.65bn in an all-stock transaction that will turn Chad ...
This has been a busy week for the smartwatch and wearable industry. The history of the "Pixel Watch" was chronicled, and a Google buying Fitbit report...
Google's C-suite has a lot of money, and it enjoys spending it. Since its IPO 10 years ago, Google has spent at least $23 billion buying 145 companies, ...
Google has government rig the private sector to its advantage. And it bigfoot crushes competitors. And failing that – it buys them. In the Internet Age, writing ...
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) was originally founded as a search engine company in 1998 under the name Google Inc.1 Since then, Google has become the world's ...
Google just announced that it has acquired FameBit, a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their *content*. This could be ...
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of advertising. Taboola and Outbrain, rivals that both operate advertising-based *content* recommendation engines for ...
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, ...
It's no secret that Google gathers up large amounts of your data based on your search history. But far less known is that the company has also been ...
Update 8/26: Amazon has acquired Twitch, snatching the almost-done deal out from under Google's nose in a $970 million all-cash deal. See our explanation of ...
Google is the dominant player in online advertising, one reason the U.S. Justice Department is laying the groundwork for potential antitrust action against the ...
Here is what fundamental, technical analysis says about Google stock. Digital advertising growth has slowed, but GOOGL stock may be stronger post Covid-19.
Making its biggest expansion play yet, Google Inc.'s YouTube division just acquired a sprawling office park near its San Bruno headquarters in a deal that hints ...
Back in 2005, everyone thought of Google as just another ad-supported search company. However, 15 years ago today, on July 11 that very same year, the ...
US President Donald Trump's fury with China's 5G security trickery will be laid bare in September after a deadline contained in the Secure 5G and Beyond Act of ...
Last summer, a 14,000-pound satellite named T-16 was shot into space. With little fanfare, it joined the orbiting fleet that transmits TV signals to millions of ...
Tech giant Google will lease most of the Westside Pavilion, a former indoor shopping mall in Los Angeles that appeared in the film "Clueless" and the music ...
Within 24 hours of posting his video “Paagal” to YouTube, Indian rapper Badshah broke a record even Taylor Swift couldn't touch. The clip, a dancehall romp, ...
Apple has acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle startup specializing in low-power, edge-based artificial intelligence tools, sources with knowledge of the deal told ...
Google's services have been blocked in China for several years, but the company still has businesses there, as the tech giant seeks to sell products to Chinese ...
Google earlier this year rebranded all of its payment services under Google Pay to help it double down on making transactions across its platform more ...
Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin start a project to better organize internet search results. The duo made an algorithm that ranks pages ...
Changes to the way YouTube "verifies" channels by celebrities and brands have upset some of the platform's stars. YouTube said it wanted to "reduce ...
Google has acquired music streaming *service* Songza after weeks of speculation around a potential buyout. Songza uses information about the user and context ...
It's not easy to value the online video giant. But revenue estimates and the multiples assigned to the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Snap suggest it's worth a ton.
Correction appended, April 21. In late October John Hanke and several of his co-workers met for a reunion of sorts at Fiesta Del Mar, a Mexican restaurant near ...
I'm in the market for a new laptop, and it needs to be enough of a beast for modern gaming. I'm talking something that allows for real-time ray tracing — a ...
YouTube is breaking out YouTube TV inventory from the rest of its offerings in an effort to capitalize on advertisers' growing interest in addressable TV inventory ...
