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Florida Mayhem Announces University 'Overwatch' Tournament
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 4:01pm | 178Read More...Collegiate esports are gaining steam in Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) "Overwatch" as OWL's Florida Mayhem announced the Mayhem Collegiate Rumble, presented by Frontier Communications. The university-level tournament will feature eight colleges across Florida to compete...
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Cut Last Ties With The Company: Report
Monday, May 11, 2020 - 5:36am | 366Read More...Eric Schmidt, who had led Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and former entity Google Inc. since 2001 in executive roles, cut all ties with the company in February this year, according to a CNet report on Saturday. Schmidt was the chief executive officer of Google Inc. between 2001 and...
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Google Employees To Work From Home Through 2020 With Few Exceptions
Friday, May 8, 2020 - 7:20am | 329Read More...A majority of employees at Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google will be working from home through the rest of the year, the company's chief executive officer Sundar Pichai said at an internal meeting on Thursday, as reported by The Information. What Happened Employees...
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Charles Schwab Launches Fractional Shares, The Ability To Gift Stock
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 3:35pm | 460Read More...Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW), a financial services company for the modern investor, announced Tuesday the introduction of Schwab Stock Slices, a fractional share trading service allowing investors to participate in the market with as little as $5. This development comes after the company...
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Analysts Applaud Alphabet Earnings: 'An Incredible Advertising Business'
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 12:56pm | 556Read More...Shares of Google parent company Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) jumped 9% on Wednesday after the company reported a better-than-feared slowdown in revenue growth in the first quarter. Alphabet reported first-quarter earnings per share of $9.87 on revenue of $41.16 billion. Revenue was...
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Loup Ventures' Munster On Alphabet's Q1: 'Hats Off To Them' For Ad Performance
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 8:02am | 438Read More...Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) showed in its first-quarter earnings report that advertising business remains strong a dramatic slowdown, Loup Ventures managing partner Gene Munster said Tuesday on CNBC's "Fast Money." 'Hats Off' To Alphabet, Munster Says...
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SpotlightNews Informs Communities, Extends Helping Hand To Small Publishers
Monday, April 27, 2020 - 11:38am | 757Read More...SpotlightNews, a revolutionary new way to consume trusted content, has rolled out a mobile- and web-friendly application. As part of the firm’s move from beta, Founder and CEO Tamer Morsy spoke with Benzinga regarding his mission to inform communities about the most important local...
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Google Announces Further Hiring And Marketing Budget Cuts
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:21am | 360Read More...Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Google announced Thursday plans to halt hiring and cut down marketing budgets in non-essential businesses in the second half of 2020. What Happened "As we outlined last week, we are re-evaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020 and...
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Sony Slows PlayStation Download Speeds To Preserve Bandwidth
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 3:33pm | 490Read More...Sony Interactive Entertainment (NYSE: SNE) said Friday that PlayStation download speeds will be slowed in the United States. This news comes days after Sony revealed reduced download speeds in Europe. Due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, global bandwidth usage is higher than usual. Sony said...
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1,000 Google Employees Volunteer To Help Expand Sister Company's Coronavirus Testing Program
Friday, March 27, 2020 - 6:45am | 444Read More...A thousand Google LLC employees have volunteered to help with the novel coronavirus triage testing program developed by fellow Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Verily. What Happened "People across Alphabet are volunteering time [and] I've never seen so much...
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Google Surveys Users For Coronavirus Symptoms To Help Researchers Forecast Spread
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 2:01am | 384Read More...Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google LLC is surveying users for possible novel coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms. What Happened The survey is being conducted through the search engine giant's Opinion Reward App in the United States. "Your responses will not be used...
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Ex-Uber Executive Pleads Guilty To Stealing Google's Trade Secrets
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 5:21am | 431Read More...Anthony Levandowski, an engineer credited with developing Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG) autonomous vehicle unit, pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from the internet giant on Thursday. What Happened Levandowski started his own autonomous vehicle company after leaving...
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CBD Is The Most Researched Wellness Trend On The Internet, Analysis Shows
Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 11:29am | 514Read More...By The Fresh Toast's Maria Loreto, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis. There are over 500,000 Google scholarly articles on CBD and millions of Instagram photos tagging the hyper-popular compound. Social media is a hot spot for wellness trends and recommendations. According to...
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Google's Sister Verily Is Developing A Site To Help US Test Coronavirus Cases
Monday, March 16, 2020 - 1:20am | 433Read More...Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) is developing a website to help decide if an individual needs to be tested for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Verily And US Govt. President Donald Trump during his address on Friday, where he declared COVID-19 a national emergency, said that the...
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No.3 In Cloud Sales Belongs To Google Or IBM?
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 10:34am | 828Read More...Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) published a revenue structure which shows that its cloud business made revenues of $9 billion in 2019. International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) showed $21 billion of sales in the cloud segment, for the same year. Yet, Google is ranked as the third biggest cloud...
