Yesterday, the small business team at Google went to Mexico for National Entrepreneurs Week. It was exciting to hear stories about how some of Mexico’s four million small businesses—the second largest number in Latin America—are using the internet to succeedRead more…
Facts, trends and unheard voices: empowering journalists during the upcoming German election
For the News Lab, elections are opportunities to empower journalists with the technology and data they need to keep their readers informed. For the German election on September 24th, our efforts are formed around three key themes: promoting accurate content,Read more…
We went to Google with our daughters for the day. Here’s what we saw.
Editor’s Note: Every other year, Google hosts “Take Your Parents to Work Day,” when parents of Googlers visit the campus and get a glimpse of what it’s like to work there. There are lots of activities to keep the parentsRead more…
Schlumberger chooses GCP to deliver new oil and gas technology platform
Google Cloud has a simple but steadfast mission: Give companies technology for new and better ways to serve their customers. We handle the network, computing and security chores; you use our software-defined infrastructure, global databases and artificial intelligence to growRead more…
Ti Amo Italy: a historic theater takes center stage in a new music video
“Ti Amo.” I love you. The new song from French synth-pop stars Phoenix. The title song from their recently released album “Ti Amo” is a love letter to Italy: from festivals in Sanremo, to singer Franco Battiato, to melted gelato.Read more…
Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund: Call for fourth round applications
Since its introduction, the Digital News Initiative Innovation Fund, our €150 million commitment to supporting innovation in the European news industry, has offered €73.5 million to 359 ambitious projects in digital journalism, across 29 countries. The fund is designed toRead more…
Continuing to support hurricane relief efforts
Hurricane Irma has impacted communities throughout the Caribbean and the southeastern United States. Hitting the Caribbean islands the hardest, Irma has left millions of people to rebuild in its wake. Today, we’re kicking off a matching campaign to support reliefRead more…
Box: Bringing image recognition and OCR to cloud content management
Editor’s note: In this guest editorial by Box’s Senior Director of Product Management, Ben Kus tells us how they used Google Cloud Vision to add a new level of image recognition to Box. Images are the second most common andRead more…
Google's Digital News Initiative Fund
Editor’s note: In April 2015, Google announced the Digital News Initiative, a partnership with European news organizations to support high-quality journalism through technology and innovation. In this guest post, Bart Brouwers, a Dutch journalism professor at the University of GroningenRead more…
Safe Browsing: Protecting more than 3 billion devices worldwide, automatically
In 2007, we launched Safe Browsing, one of Google’s earliest anti-malware efforts. To keep our users safe, we’d show them a warning before they visited a site that might’ve harmed their computers. An early Safe Browsing notification Computing has evolvedRead more…