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Google announced it is using aggregated, anonymized data showing how busy certain types of places are during the COVID-19 outbreak. The data can help identify when a local business tends to be the most crowded. Public health officials can use the data to make critical decisions to combat COVID-19. Starting today, we're publishing an early release of our COVID-19 Community
Google announced that Google Translate will be rolling out in the next few days for any combination of the following eight languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai. Sami Iqram, Product Manager, Google Translate, shared a story where he used Google Translate: Recently, I was at my friend's family gathering, where her grandmother told a story from
Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet that is focused on life sciences and healthcare, is a sister company to Google. Verily is working in collaboration with the California Governor's office, federal, state, and local public health authorities to create an online COVID-19 screener survey. Californians will be able to take an online COVID-19 screener survey through Project Baseline beginning Monday, March
Google announced that it is establishing a COVID-19 fund that will enable all of their temporary staff and vendors, globally, to take paid sick leave if they have potential symptoms of COVID-19. It is also for temporary staff who can't come into work because they are quarantined. Most members of our extended workforce around the world (like the vendors who
Google announced on their Chromium Blog that they have been working on a common complaint among Chrome users: annoying, intrusive ads. In 2018, they started removing the ads from websites that continually show intrusive ads that violate industry standards. Google also updated their own advertising to ensure they are not selling or serving the kind of ads that users find
The European Commission antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data. This comes months after the U.S. Department of Justice announced that they were reviewing how Google's platforms have reduced competition. Reuters reported that an EU executive said the Commission was seeking information on how and why Alphabet unit Google is collecting data. A document seen by Reuters indicates the
Google announced that is has acquired CloudSimple, which Google describes as “a leading provider of secure, high performance, dedicated environments to run VMware workloads in the cloud.” CloudSimple has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California. It also has locations in Ukraine and India. Google started a partnership with CloudSimple earlier this year. The purpose of the partnership appears to be