Feb 3rd 2021
This Week in Google 597
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Alphabet Earnings, Ford Gets Android Automotive, Jeff Bezos Steps Down
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 22:00 UTC.
- Google and Ford sign six-year tie-up
- Alphabet revenue up 23%; YouTube up 47%; cloud lost $5.6b
- Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus
- New Jarvis post on scissors editors and the Australian news legislation
- Microsoft backs Australia’s proposed laws that would force Google, Facebook to pay local media for content
- Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development
- Chromebook demand has grown by over 4x during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pixel Slate removed from Google Store
- Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users, avoiding new pop-up warning
- Google to pay $3.8m to settle discrimination lawsuits
- How do Google and Apple stack up against each other in racial justice?
- Facebook's 'Oversight Board' overturns 4 cases in first rulings
- Facebook develops bad-news-avoidance tool for advertisers
- Bezos stepping down/up at CEO -> executive chair
- The Relentless Jeff Bezos
- Seed Investments in Insurrection
- Parler CEO John Matze says he’s been terminated by board: ‘I did not participate in this decision’
- Sinofsky speaks! Former Microsoft exec to publish memoirs online
- February security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live
- Google Meet adds a green room so you can primp
- Google Search links getting ‘About this result’ panel with website information
- YouTube will have a new ‘BHM’ logo every week for Black History Month
- Google Play allowing Android gambling and betting apps in more countries, including US
- Android TV homescreen gets another revamp, this time w/ some Google TV goodness
- Android ‘Phone Hub’ begins arriving in Chrome OS for a select few
- Uber buying Drizly for $1.1b
- Clubhouse's moment arrives
Picks:
- Stacey: Alternatives to Wink hub
- Jeff: Ben Evans' annual slideshow extravaganza
- Ant: VERY HAPPY and PROUD Moment #hardhead
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- Google and Ford sign six-year tie-up
- Alphabet revenue up 23%; YouTube up 47%; cloud lost $5.6b
- Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus
- New Jarvis post on scissors editors and the Australian news legislation
- Microsoft is the Eddie Haskel of tech companies
- Huawei’s HarmonyOS: “Fake it till you make it” meets OS development
- Chromebook demand has grown by over 4x during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Pixel Slate removed from Google Store
- Google to stop using Apple tool to track iPhone users, avoiding new pop-up warning
- Google to pay $3.8m to settle discrimination lawsuits
- Facebook's 'Oversight Board' overturns 4 cases in first rulings
- Facebook develops bad-news-avoidance tool for advertisers
- Bezos stepping down/up at CEO -> executive chair
- The Relentless Jeff Bezos
- Seed Investments in Insurrection
- Parler CEO John Matze says he’s been terminated by board: ‘I did not participate in this decision’
- Sinofsky speaks! Former Microsoft exec to publish memoirs online
- February security patch rolling out to Google Pixel, factory images & OTAs live
- Google Meet adds a green room so you can primp
- Google Search links getting ‘About this result’ panel with website information
- YouTube will have a new ‘BHM’ logo every week for Black History Month
- Google Play allowing Android gambling and betting apps in more countries, including US
- Android TV homescreen gets another revamp, this time w/ some Google TV goodness
- Android ‘Phone Hub’ begins arriving in Chrome OS for a select few [Gallery]
- Uber buying Drizly for $1.1b
- Andreessen Horowitz goes around media, starts media
- Clubhouse's moment arrives
- Alternatives to Wink hub
- Ben Evans' annual slideshow extravaganza
- VERY HAPPY and PROUD Moment #hardhead