Google Releasing Location Data To Help Fight Coronavirus Pandemic
Google (GOOGL) is publicly releasing the data it's already collecting about people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Google (GOOGL) is publicly releasing the data it's already collecting about people's movements during the coronavirus pandemic.
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday Google was providing more than 100,000 Wi-Fi broadband access points across the state to help bridge the digital divide for people who need internet access during the coronavirus shelter-in-place.
Google is committing to donate more than $800 million to support businesses, organizations and healthcare workers as part of its coronavirus response.
Google's new COVID-19 information website shows little evidence of the site that Pres. Trump described last at a news conference last week. It's unclear if the site will be updated with testing information in the future.
Officials with Google announced on Friday that concerns over the coronavirus have led the company to cancel plans to hold the annual Google I/O developers conference "in any capacity."
Former Google self-driving program executive Anthony Scott Levandowski has submitted documents requesting that a federal judge accept his guilty plea to theft of trade secrets charges, prosecutors announced Thursday.
The Trump administration is in discussions with the tech industry, including Facebook and Google, about how to use Americans' cellphone location data to track the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Mobile drive-thru coronavirus testing is ramping up in the Bay Area, albeit slowly and selectively. Two sites, one at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds and the other at the San Mateo County Event Center, are invitation-only, operated by Verily Life Sciences.
Two Democratic senators asked the Federal Trade Commission to pursue enforcement action against Google Tuesday saying the company is continuing to allow ads for the sale of facemasks amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet and sister company to Google, quickly launched its much anticipated coronavirus testing website for residents in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties late Sunday night.
Hours after President Donald Trump announced Google would be "very quickly" launching a national website to distribute the latest information on coronavirus testing, the Silicon Valley giant thanked him for his support but clarified the roll out would be slower than he promised and focused first on the Bay Area.
The effort to increase coronavirus testing capacity in the United States is about to get a big boost from a Bay Area lab.
Google announced Tuesday that it plans to cancel its upcoming I/O developers conference in May due to concerns about the coronavirus.
Officials at Google on Monday announced the planned Google Cloud Next conference scheduled for the first week of April would now be a multi-day digital streaming event due to coronavirus concerns.
Waymo has secured $2.25 billion from a group of investors to help the company continue to develop its self-driving technology for its ride-hailing service and a recently launched trucking division.
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday rejected a free-speech lawsuit filed against YouTube and Google by a conservative nonprofit group.
Ageism is becoming a growing problem in the male-dominated tech industry and some are finding creative ways around it.
The Justice Department official leading the investigation of big tech companies' market dominance is stepping aside from the department's Google probe.
Alphabet for the first time disclosed the size of various business units within Google, including YouTube advertising.
President Donald Trump and his French counterpart have agreed to hold off on escalating a trade war, officials said.
The exclusive $1 trillion club on Wall Street just got a new member.
David Drummond, the legal chief of Google parent company Alphabet, is leaving at the end of the month, following accusations of inappropriate relationships with employees.
Despite escalating pressure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Facebook reaffirmed its freewheeling policy on political ads Thursday, saying it won't ban them, won't fact-check them and won't limit how they can be targeted to specific groups of people.
Google says it has developed an artificial intelligence system that can detect the presence of breast cancer more accurately than doctors.
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