Google is partnering with LEGO to build an virtual brick-building playground which can be accessed through a computer, smartphone, or tablet, using the new Build with Chrome application.
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Google ad exec Susan Wojcicki to take over YouTube as chief
Google advertising executive Susan Wojcicki is reportedly being promoted to chief position at YouTube to improve the latter's video ad revenue, according to The Information.
New York City Police Department tries out Google Glass- report
The New York City Police Department's intelligence and analytics unit is checking out if Google's latest innovation, Google Glass, can be used for law enforcement, VentureBeat reported.
Tech company giants start unveiling details on secret government requests for data
In a bid to show that their participation in the surveillance efforts of the government was limited, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google started to publish details on the number of government requests for data, Reuters reported.
Google releases new Chromecast SDK for streaming media
Tech and Internet giant Google released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build their own apps for the Chromecast streaming media dongle.
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Paypal executive Mike Liberatore leaves firm to become CFO of San Francisco payments startup Clinkle
Mike Liberatore, the former head of Paypal's enterprise and North American financials, left the company to become the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of San Francisco, US-based payments startup Clinkle.
Search giant Google will be purchasing London-based artificial intelligence startup DeepMind founded by Demis Hassabis, Jaan Tallin and Shane Legg, according to news website Re/code.
Data showed that Android holds the top spot as the most popular mobile platform in the world but Samsung is clearly under pressure as local players step up their game, TechCrunch reported.
Samsung, the world's biggest cellphone maker, inked a 10-year patent agreement covering all present and future technology patents with Google, the maker of Android operating system.
The Motorola Mobility unit of Google was mostly defeated in the antitrust case it filed against LCD makers it had claimed colluded to fix prices, Bloomberg reported.
In a funny coincidence, four engineers from Google's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team were on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread right before Gmail and other Google services experienced a worldwide outage.
Google just got hit with an outage that brought down Gmail, Google Plus, Google Voice, Hangouts, and other services which lasted for around 20 minutes and got resolved by 12:23 PM Pacific Time.
Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of search giant Google, has warned that technological advances could eliminate a wide variety of jobs, the Financial Times reported.
Research from Mercom Capital Group showed that venture capital funding for companies in the smart grid technology sector was pegged at $405 million in 2013, a dip from the $434 million in 2012.
