Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, says the company will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services. “We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said during a […]
Google Will ‘De-Rank’ RT and Sputnik Articles to Make Them Harder to Find…
EU Fines Google a Record 2.4 Billion Euros in Antitrust Case…
The European Union slapped a record 2.42 billion-euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own online shopping business. European regulators gave the company based in Mountain View, California, 90 days to stop or face more fines of up […]
Is It Time to Break Up Google?…
In just 10 years, the world’s five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), Amazon and Facebook have taken their place. They’re all tech companies, and each dominates its corner of the […]
Uber Issues Nationwide Suspension of Self-Driving Cars…
Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident. It was only the latest bad news for Uber. Breitbart News reported a week earlier that the public relations turmoil surrounding Uber Technologies Inc. reached new heights when company president Jeff […]
Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt: ‘Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight’ over It…
If big data really is the “new oil,” does this mean that countries will fight over it? This is what Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, suggested in a speech at the company’s Google Cloud Next conference on Wednesday. “I think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how […]
Google’s Eric Schmidt Considering Lawsuit…
Trump Tells Tech Leaders ‘There’s nobody like you in the world’…
Ringed by tech’s elite, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to do “anything we can do” to help the industry he often baited during the presidential campaign. “This is truly an amazing group of people,” Trump said at Trump Tower to kick off a meeting with Silicon Valley’s top leaders. “I want to add that […]
How to See Everything Google Knows About You…
This week the company rolled out a new tool called “My Activity,” which shows you almost everything you do online related to your Google account…