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Google Tracker: Calling For Backup From Smartphone Producer HTC

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How could Google benefit from acquiring smartphone maker HTC? Is Google Home safe from hackers? This and everything else you may have missed in this week’s Google tracker. Taiwanese news outlet Commercial Times reported Google has nearly completed an acquisition of HTC, the smartphone maker that builds the Google Pixel.

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Walmart Teams With GM's Cruise For Driverless Deliveries

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Previously, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer announced autonomous vehicle ventures with Nuro in Houston , Ford in Miami , Gatik in Arkansas and with Waymo , owned by Google corporate parent Alphabet , in Phoenix. This isn't the first time Walmart has teamed up with a driverless automobile company. Rowe Price and Honda.

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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Media company Hearst has put together a team of 10 people that is tasked with staying on top of cutting-edge technology, including voice-activated devices from the likes of Amazon and Google, and creating products and services around them. It also developed skills for the San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle , two newspapers it owns.

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Walmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: A Slow Start To A New Year

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Of course, taking a break is a relative term when it comes to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck — Walmart, according to most reports , is running barn-burner deals that rival Black Friday savings. based rival Google will be making a hard press on the benefits of the voice-integrated life for CES attendees. Filed on Dec.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

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Of that 44 percent, 67 percent requested Apple Pay specifically, 18 percent requested Google Wallet and Android Pay, 8 percent requested PayPal and 7 percent requested Samsung Pay. “It “I live in Houston, Texas, so it’s blazing hot in the summertime,” Russell said. So, what should you be watching?

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Congress Wants Digital Platforms To Release Their Algorithms – Why?

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It’s not clear how the Act’s co-authors define a large-scale internet platform, but the book that is its namesake highlights Google, Facebook and Apple as examples of quintessential “filter bubbles.”. Google competes with Facebook for ad dollars and eyeballs, but vies with Apple in an entirely different way.

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