Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) is expanding its technological footprint beyond search, robotics, automated cars and drones by developing a super-fast quantum computer chip used in artificial intelligence. Move could expand the company’s dominance in the world of computing, touching a variety of business lines and creating a business category of its own. The Mountain View-based…
AbbVie Inc (NYSE ABBV), the speciality pharma firm spun off from Abbott Laboratories (NYSE ABT) almost a year ago, and Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) new Calico division will spend up to $1.5 billion to research cures to age-related diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Google’s Calico and AbbVie forms a $1,5 billion aging-related disease…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) announced its decision to change the name of its enterprise unit to Google for Work effective immediately. The search engine giant is also rebranding its services. For example, Google’s e-mail and cloud storage will be called Gmail for Work and Drive for Work, respectively. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt emphasized that the…
China is reportedly working on a homegrown operating system supported by the local government as a strategy to replace OSs from Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ MSFT) that are widely used across the country. Chinese news agency Xinhua reported of a possible introduction of an operating system backed by the local government…
Google Inc’s (NASDAQ GOOG) self-driving car may drive itself, but the conditions in which it can operate effectively are very limited. These observations come from an article in the MIT Technology Review. In some ways, the self-driving car is not self-driving at all. The research shows how easy it is for hype to get ahead…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) revealed yesterday that the company would no longer display authors names in search results because it doesn’t seem to affect which links people click on one way or the other. But what’s more surprising to people webmasters who deal with SEO on a regular basis is that authorship won’t be used…
