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Why Does Google Need So Many Robots? To Jump From The Web To The Real World. Why does Google need robots?

Why Does Google Need So Many Robots? To Jump From The Web To The Real World

Because it already rules your pocket. The mobile market, except for the slow rise of wearables, is saturated. There are millions of handsets around the world, each one connected to the Internet and most are running either Android or iOS. Except for incremental updates to the form, there will be few innovations coming out of the mobile space in the next decade. Baxter The Worker Robot Puts In The Hours So You Don’t Have To. While I doubt this guy will replace the Homer Simpsons of the world, Baxter by Boston-based Rethink Robotics is a robot that could definitely give the average button pushers a run for their money.

Baxter The Worker Robot Puts In The Hours So You Don’t Have To

The $22,000 robot essentially does chores. You tell it to stand in a room and watch something or to pack boxes and, with some programming, it can get the job done. Then you move Baxter to the next task – and the next – until he forms a union. Baxter does simple tasks like machine tending, loading and unloading, and finishing operations. Google Acquires Channel Intelligence For $125M To Boost Product Referrals And E-Commerce With Users. Google continues to enhance its business in e-commerce and providing a portal for users to search and find things to buy alongside ads for those products.

Google Acquires Channel Intelligence For $125M To Boost Product Referrals And E-Commerce With Users

Today it was announced that Google has bought Channel Intelligence, a provider of technology to companies to enable customers to buy their products online, for $125 million in an all-cash deal. CI is active globally in 31 countries, working with 850 retailers like Best Buy and Target. It has also been a partner of Google Shopping for years already, specifically on its Return On Ad Spend (ROAS) with Product Listing Ads (PLAs) products. The rise of a number of sites offering free services, with revenues generated via referral networks alongside those services, has boosted Channel Intelligence’s star.

The news was announced on CI’s homepage, where the company said that “All CI services will continue to offer the excellent client service and great performance that our clients have come to expect over the years.” Google saura où vous allez. Google a fait un dépôt de brevet plutôt “intéressant” (qui a dit inquiétant ?). Il est ici question d’implanter dans nos smartphones un système capable de savoir où son propriétaire se rend. Finis ainsi les oublis de passage chez le teinturier en allant chercher le pain... C’est grâce au rachat de Motorola que ce brevet a pu voir le jour. Google utilise le GPS, d’anciennes données ainsi que les habitudes de déplacement de l’utilisateur pour proposer une liste de destinations probables selon sa position actuelle.

Un tel système rendrait vraiment nos “smartphones” intelligents. FACEBOOK FALLOUT: Suddenly It Feels Like Google Is Actually Going To Buy Twitter. Google Acquires Mobile Productivity Company Quickoffice. Google just announced that it has acquired Quickoffice, a company best known for its mobile productivity suite for Android and iOS.

Google Acquires Mobile Productivity Company Quickoffice

Google plans to bring Quickoffice’s “powerful technology” to its own Apps product suite. Quickoffice allows its users to create and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on their mobile devices. The company says its software is currently installed on over 300 million devices in more than 180 countries.

More On Meebo: Price Is Around $100M, Product Team To Work On Google+ Publisher Tools, Layoffs Hit Sales. Meebo, the seven year-old chat service that morphed into a website toolbar and ad platform, is indeed selling to Google.

More On Meebo: Price Is Around $100M, Product Team To Work On Google+ Publisher Tools, Layoffs Hit Sales

The company confirmed the news a few minutes ago, and we’ve since dug up some more details. First, the amount. Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains. Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its window for new generic top-level domain name applications.

Google Applies for .Google, .Docs, .YouTube and .LOL Top-Level Domains

ICANN will publish a list of all the applied-for strings in two weeks, but Google today already announced some of the names it applied for. Among these are, as expected, .google and .youtube. According to Google’s chief Internet evangelist and “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf, however, the company also applied for domains it thinks ” have interesting and creative potential,” including .lol. Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) like these will soon become a reality on the Internet and will work side-by-side with today’s 28 TLDs like .com, .org, .net and more obscure ones like .jobs and .aero. This new program will likely create somewhere between 300 and 1,000 new gTLDs per year.

Keen On… Robert Levine: Is Google Killing Our Culture? (TCTV) Plainte antitrust contre Google : Bruxelles se prononcera fin mars. Google devrait bientôt être fixé sur son sort quant à une éventuelle procédure antitrust de la Commission européenne.

Plainte antitrust contre Google : Bruxelles se prononcera fin mars

Joaquin Almunia, le commissaire européen à la concurrence a indiqué hier qu’il se prononcera d’ici fin mars sur un éventuel dépôt de plainte de ses services pour abus de position dominante. « Je recevrai les commentaires de l'équipe qui s'occupe de cette affaire vers la fin du premier trimestre. Je ne m'attends pas à quelque chose plus tôt (...). Il faut voir », a-t-il déclaré. Les enquêtes antitrusts durent plusieurs années Une annonce surprise dans la mesure où les enquêtes antitrust de cette ampleur durent généralement plusieurs années. Google Execs Pay $32m to Restore Iconic Hanger One Building. 9 December '11, 08:57am Follow Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin, and chairman Eric Schmidt have given their full support to the restoration to one of California’s most iconic structures, Hanger One, in return for a long term lease of the hangar that would store the leaders’ eight private jets.

Google Execs Pay $32m to Restore Iconic Hanger One Building

Mountain View Voice reports that requests made to NASA to restore the hangar fell upon deaf ears at Congress, despite support from NASA Ames Research Center where Hangar One is located, with similar results at the space agency’s headquarters in Washington. With the Navy stripping the toxic siding from the 200-foot-tall 1933 structure, it was announced on Thursday that Google chiefs would step in and pay 100% of cost to restore the hangar and shell. Eric Schmidt: Google Is Buying One Company A Week. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt just took the stage at the Le Web conference to chat about Android, the search giant’s expansion and more.

Eric Schmidt: Google Is Buying One Company A Week

When he was asked about why the search engine hadn’t acquired any French companies, Schmidt jokingly commented on stage that Google was now buying around one company day. That’s clearly a lot of companies to purchase even for a company with deep pockets like Google. So our intrepid reporter Alexia Tsotsis ran backstage to confirm this, where Schmidt told her on the record that Google was actually acquiring around one company per week. “But why do you never announce them?” She asked him. As revealed in October, this year Google has spent $1.4 billion on 57 acquisitions this year.

All jokes aside, with $43 billion in cash, clearly the company has room to up the ante and start buying a company per day. SketchUp Is Google’s First Divestment Ever, And It Made A Profit. Google’s sale of a previously purchased arm of the company this morning, 3D modeling software SketchUp, to Trimble, is its first divestment in years, and according to sources the search giant made a profit, as it sold SketchUp for more than it bought it for back in 2006.

SketchUp Is Google’s First Divestment Ever, And It Made A Profit

This could signal a sea change in how Larry Page executes his vision for a leaner, more focused Google. The company frequently shuts down extraneous products, but that requires redistribution of their team members internally.