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Google’s Allo app can reveal what you’ve searched to your friends

by Tess Townsend

The mobile messaging app lets you include Google Assistant in conversations.

Now that Android is getting Google Assistant, here’s how it works

by Tess Townsend

Here’s what you can actually do with it.

The head of Alphabet’s ‘Project Loon’ balloon-internet project has stepped down after only six months

by Tess Townsend

Tom Moore will stay on in an advisory role.

Alphabet’s Waymo filed an injunction against Uber for allegedly stealing intellectual property

by Johana Bhuiyan

Waymo filed sworn testimony that Uber’s head of self-driving, Anthony Levandowski, stole key files.

Google’s new version of Hangouts looks a lot like Slack

by Tess Townsend

The new tool features “rooms” and threaded conversations.

Google says it fixed a lot of the security holes the CIA exploited

by April Glaser

That’s good, right?

Eric Schmidt: ‘Big data is so powerful, nation states will fight’ over it

by Tess Townsend

Google grabbed five major clients for its cloud business.

Mossberg: Tech’s ruling class casts a big shadow

by Walt Mossberg

Is the dominance of the “Gang of Five” healthy?

Tech companies are bracing for a #DayWithoutAWoman

by Johana Bhuiyan

Lyft and Uber have informed employees they are allowed to participate in the strike.

Google is hiring a head of Republican political advertising

by Tess Townsend

The new posting follows one from last year for a “conservative outreach” manager.

Barack Obama conspiracy theories, brought to you by Google Home

by Eric Johnson

Google’s latest “fake news” oversight sounds even worse when spoken aloud.

Trump’s possible pick for FTC chair might have to recuse himself in cases involving Google, Facebook or Microsoft

by Tess Townsend

The trio, along with other tech companies, have all donated to Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes’ campaigns.

A longtime Google creative lead is heading to genomics startup Color

by Tess Townsend

Michael Krantz was Google’s first consumer marketing writer 13 years ago.

This is what Snap is paying Google $2 billion for

by Tess Townsend

The social media company has a huge contract with Google Cloud Platform. But what does that mean?

YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month

by Peter Kafka

Meet YouTube TV.

Uber’s SVP of engineering is out after he did not disclose he left Google in a dispute over a sexual harassment allegation

by Kara Swisher

Amit Singhal, a highly regarded engineer in Silicon Valley, denied the claims after top execs at the search giant presented them to him.

Alphabet’s Waymo is suing Otto and Uber for allegedly stealing the design of a key self-driving system

by Johana Bhuiyan

The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.

Google wants businesses to text with its Android Messages service

by Tess Townsend

The company is continuing to expand the reach of its next-generation texting app.

Google researchers have cracked a key internet security tool

by Tess Townsend

But the tool remains in wide use.

Google and Intel had the most active corporate VC firms last year

by Tess Townsend

GV’s biggest investments in 2016 were Oscar, Stripe and Grail.

Google is auditing more YouTube ad metrics

by Tess Townsend

The news comes within two weeks of Facebook’s own announcement of ad auditing.

Self-driving cars are an ‘existential crisis’ for Uber, ‘Upstarts’ author Brad Stone says

by Eric Johnson

And that’s why Uber might beat Google and Apple.

A breakthrough in Alphabet’s balloon-based internet project means it might actually work

by April Glaser and Tess Townsend

The Loon project says these advancements shorten their timeline for deployment.

Now you can buy things from Costco, Whole Foods and other stores via Google Home

by Tess Townsend

“Okay Google, order paper towels.”

Alphabet is sending hundreds of staff from its internet access unit to Google

by Tess Townsend

The subsidiary, called Access, also has a new CEO.

Mossberg: Android apps on Chrome OS arrive, disappoint

by Walt Mossberg

The idea is great, but the execution needs work.

Google’s chief business officer: ‘We have to take the fake news problem very, very seriously’

by Tess Townsend

But Philipp Schindler doesn’t have any advice for Facebook.

Google has cut two anti-Semitic websites from its ads platform

by Tess Townsend

Google wouldn’t comment on any action against individual sites, but said it takes hate speech seriously.

Oracle has filed an appeal in its copyright lawsuit against Google

by Tess Townsend

A jury ruled in Google’s favor in May.

Full Transcript: The Verge’s Dieter Bohn talks Chromebooks on Too Embarrassed to Ask

by Recode Staff

How good is the stripped-down, low-cost laptop these days?

It’s not just Google — Snap has a $1 billion cloud services deal with Amazon, too

by Kurt Wagner

Snap disclosed the deal in a revised version of its S-1 made public Thursday.

Snap has financially handcuffed itself to Google Cloud (Updated)

by Peter Guagenti

In doing so, it’s not in control over some key parts of its business and costs for the foreseeable future as its IPO approaches.

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