Amazon, Alphabet vs. Banks: How Tech Budgets Compare Sarah Butcher, January 13, 2020 5 min read Banks like to say they're more like technology companies than actual technology companies by virtue of the...
Weekend Roundup: AWS re:Invent, Apple’s Best Apps, Fate of Alphabet? Nick Kolakowski, December 6, 2019 6 min read The week after Thanksgiving is always a tough one for some folks: You have to re-accelerate to full working speed...
Is Alphabet’s DeepMind in Deep, Deep Trouble? Nick Kolakowski, August 23, 2019 3 min read DeepMind, the A.I.-centric subsidiary of Alphabet, is bleeding money: last year, it lost $571 million, according to...
Median Salaries at Biggest Tech Companies: Officially Insane Nick Kolakowski, May 2, 2018 3 min read In news that will probably come as a shock to nobody, the median income at some of the world’s largest tech companies...
Google Glass Returns as Manufacturing Tool Nick Kolakowski, July 19, 2017 4 min read Remember Google Glass? Back in Ye Olden Days of 2013, it seemed that Google Glass might actually become the...
Alphabet Grounding Its Big Drone Project? Nick Kolakowski, November 11, 2016 3 min read The Great Alphabet Housecleaning of 2016 continues: the search-engine giant is reportedly cutting back on Project...
Alphabet May Have Canceled Project Ara Nick Kolakowski, September 2, 2016 2 min read If you were looking forward to Alphabet’s Project Ara, a modular smartphone that would have allowed users to swap...
Alphabet Selling Off Robotics Arm Nick Kolakowski, March 18, 2016 2 min read In December 2013, Google announced plans to acquire Boston Dynamics, creator of robots such as the four-legged BigDog...
What Google’s Alphabet Means for Tech Pros Nick Kolakowski, August 11, 2015 2 min read Goodbye, Google. Hello, Alphabet. In an August 10 blog posting, Google CEO Larry Page announced that he was creating...