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Google’s app store deal with Spotify won’t placate critics
A new pilot program marks a tepid concession by Google that change is coming to its lucrative app store. Read More
YouTube revives its television business. Watch out, Roku and Tubi
The growth of free, ad-supported TV gives YouTube an awesome opportunity to capitalize on its marketing might. Read More
Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai uses his phone during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2018, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer ) The US Department of Justice and 14 state attorneys general yesterday asked a federal judge to sanction Google for misusing attorney-client privilege in […]
Tesla stays ahead of the pack with new European plant
As a long-awaited German factory goes online, the electric automaker continues to outpace Volkswagen. Read More
Steam on Chromebooks is ready for testing, comes with steep requirements
Enlarge / Portal 2 is one of the games Google recommends trying. (credit: Google) After prematurely announcing that Steam on Chromebooks was ready for testing last week, Google is making the release official today. The alpha version of Steam on Chrome OS is currently available in the particular Chrome OS 14583. 0. 0 Dev channel, […]
Winning Time Episode 3: ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’
Damn, even legendary Chick Hearn is a bastard? Winning Time is hell-bent on tearing down all the NBA totems. Even the adored voice of the Lakers for 40-plus years, Hearn, is caught calling black security guards “gorillas. ” Writers Max Borenstein and Rodney Barnes show us the circus behind the curtain as a microcosm… Read […]
Google buys Micro LED startup Raxium, wants to make AR displays
Enlarge (credit: Raxium) Google is adding more fuel to the AR fire burning inside the company. The Information reports Google has struck a deal to buy Raxium, a “five-year-old startup that develops tiny light-emitting diodes for displays used in augmented and mixed reality devices.” Raxium hasn’t released a commercial product, but its work revolves around […]
Whoops: Google announced Chrome OS Steam alpha, but it’s not ready yet
Enlarge / Google shared this image during its Games Developer Summit keynote yesterday. (credit: Google ) Google yesterday said that the “Steam on Chrome OS” alpha had launched, but it turns out that Vapor on Chromebooks isn’t actually prepared for testing. During the Google for Games developer summit keynote yesterday, Google product director Greg Hartell said […]
Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants, lawsuit says
Enlarge Google is being sued by a Florida restaurant group alleging that the tech company} has been setting up unauthorized pages to capture food orders rather than directing them to the restaurant’s own site. Google uses “bait-and-switch” tactics to get customers to place takeout or pickup orders through “new, unauthorized, and deceptively branded webpages, ” […]