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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Decried Bad ‘Optics’ of Search Engine Deal With Apple
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Decried Bad ‘Optics’ of Search Engine Deal With Apple

[ad_1] Google's Sundar Pichai raised concerns years before he became the company's chief executive officer that its deal with Apple Inc. had bad “optics” because there was no choice of which search engine to use in the company's web browser.Emails Pichai wrote in 2007 to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, among other executives, were introduced as evidence in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Alphabet Inc.'s Google, which is underway in Washington. The emails, written when Pichai was in charge of Google's Chrome browser, show concerns about the company's agreement to pay Apple in exchange for being the pre-selected search option on the Safari browser. “I know we are insisting on default, but at the same time I think we should encourage them to have Yahoo as a c...
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Google Co-Founders Gain $17 Billion as AI Boost Lifts Stock
13May By adminNo Comments
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Google Co-Founders Gain $17 Billion as AI Boost Lifts Stock

[ad_1] Google's co-founders are reaping the rewards of the artificial intelligence frenzy, adding more than $17 billion to their combined wealth as the company unveiled a revamped search engine.Larry Page's net worth increased by $8.7 billion this week to $106.2 billion, while Sergey Brin's rose $8.3 billion to $101.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That puts them on track for their biggest weekly gain since February 2021. Google will start experimenting with a more conversational search engine and has made its AI-powered chatbot available more broadly, the Mountain View, California-based company said at its annual developer conference on Wednesday. That's helping the firm assert dominance in an increasingly competitive field. Shares of its parent, Alphabet Inc.,...
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Larry Page’s Flying Car Failure Is a Lesson For Us All
25Sep By adminNo Comments
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Larry Page’s Flying Car Failure Is a Lesson For Us All

[ad_1] As the Google billionaire’s Kitty Hawk project winds down, it’s worth remembering that moonshots really are long shots. For a project so ambitious, the announcement about the end of flying-car startup Kitty Hawk Corp. was surprisingly terse. A single post on the company's LinkedIn page on Wednesday stated: “We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We're still working on the details of what's next.”The news was greeted with surprise by rival companies. Founded in 2010, Kittyhawk figured out early that it needed to make an aircraft as nimble as a car, rather than bolt some wings on an automobile. It helped pioneer a new type of aircraft called eVTOL, or electric vertical takeoff and landing — essentially a cross...
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Kittyhawk, Larry Page’s Flying-Car Company, Will Shut Down
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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Kittyhawk, Larry Page’s Flying-Car Company, Will Shut Down

[ad_1] Kittyhawk, the air-taxi company backed by billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page, will be closing down, dealing a setback to the long-elusive dream of developing flying cars. Kittyhawk, the air-taxi company backed by billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page, will be closing down, dealing a setback to the long-elusive dream of developing flying cars. “We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk,” the company said on Twitter. “We're still working on the details of what's next.” The company's technology is expected to live on in the form of its Wisk Aero joint venture with Boeing Co. Wisk's operations won't be affected by Kittyhawk's shutdown, Boeing said on Wednesday. Kittyhawk traces its history to 2010, w...
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