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Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada

Posted on: May 23, 2019, in News

The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter’s work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the […]

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Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market-share needle

Posted on: May 20, 2019, in News

When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double digits. We also know that IBM and […]

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Google expands its container service with GKE Advanced

Posted on: May 19, 2019, in News

With its Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud has long offered a managed service for running containers on its platform. Kubernetes users tend to have a variety of needs, but so far, Google only offered a single tier of GKE that wasn’t necessarily geared toward the high-end enterprise users the company is trying to woo. Today, […]

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Google starts pulling unvetted Android apps that access call logs and SMS messages

Posted on: May 17, 2019, in News

Google is removing apps from Google Play that request permission to access call logs and SMS text message data but haven’t been manually vetted by Google staff. The search and mobile giant said it is part of a move to cut down on apps that have access to sensitive calling and texting data. Google said in […]

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Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle

Posted on: May 15, 2019, in News

If you’ve ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook to augment its own growing computer vision department. GrokStyle started as a paper — as […]

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Google doubles down on its Asylo confidential computing framework

Posted on: May 12, 2019, in News

Last May, Google introduced Asylo, an open-source framework for confidential computing, a technique favored by many of the big cloud vendors because it allows you to set up trusted execution environments that are shielded from the rest of the (potentially untrusted) system. Workloads and their data basically sit in a trusted enclave that adds another […]

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Google extends its BeyondCorp security model to G Suite

Posted on: May 9, 2019, in News

BeyondCorp is Google’s model for securing networks not just through VPNs and other endpoint security techniques, but through a model that focuses on context-aware access policies that focus on the user’s identity, hardware and the context of the request. That has been Google’s internal security policy for a while now and over the last few […]

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Amazon Live is the retailers latest effort to take on QVC with live-streamed video

Posted on: April 23, 2019, in News

Amazon is taking on QVC with the launch of Amazon Live, which features live-streamed video shows from Amazon talent as well as those from brands that broadcast their own live streams through a new app, Amazon Live Creator. On the live shows, hosts talk about and demonstrate products available for sale on Amazon, much like they do on QVC. […]

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Facebook and Google still offer the best value for mobile advertisers (Singular report)

Posted on: April 22, 2019, in News

Among mobile ad networks, Facebook and Google remain the best bet for advertisers, according to the latest ROI Index from marketing startup Singular. To pull together this year’s index, Singular says it sampled $1.5 billion in ad spending (from the $10 billion in spending that the company optimizes annually) and measured which networks are delivering […]

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LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service

Posted on: April 21, 2019, in News

LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared news and other content. Now it’s taking its next step in the medium in earnest. This week, the company is launching live video, […]

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