Google Chat
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From direct messages to group conversations, Google Chat helps teams and businesses collaborate fluidly and efficiently from anywhere. Securely connect with anyone you work with, and take group work to the next level with shared chat, files and tasks.
From direct messages to group conversations, Google Chat helps teams and businesses collaborate fluidly and efficiently from anywhere. Securely connect with anyone you work with, and take group work to the next level with shared chat, files and tasks.
Google Cloud Search
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Use the power of Google to search across your company’s content. From Gmail and Drive to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and more, Google Cloud Search answers your questions and delivers relevant suggestions to help you throughout the day.
Use the power of Google to search across your company’s content. From Gmail and Drive to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and more, Google Cloud Search answers your questions and delivers relevant suggestions to help you throughout the day.
Alphabet has Reportedly Acquired Canadian AR Smartglasses Company called 'North' which gives us a Peek at their Future
In The News:
“Google's parent company Alphabet has reportedly acquired a Canadian Company out of Kitchner [sic] Ontario called North. A company that makes AR Smartglasses branded "Focals." They have sales outlets in Toronto and Brooklyn NY. While the glasses are smart technologically, they're also smart...
“Google's parent company Alphabet has reportedly acquired a Canadian Company out of Kitchner [sic] Ontario called North. A company that makes AR Smartglasses branded "Focals.". While the glasse... North's introductory video below shows us just how natural they actually look on a user.”. Carmi Levy, a director at London’s Info-Tech Research Group,.
Google Forms
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Create custom forms for surveys and questionnaires at no extra cost. Gather everything in a spreadsheet and analyze data right in Google Sheets.
Create custom forms for surveys and questionnaires at no extra cost. Gather everything in a spreadsheet and analyze data right in Google Sheets.
Google Acquires Mainframe Migration Company Cornerstone
Vendor Research: Infrastructure & Operations
On February 19, Google Cloud announced its acquisition of Cornerstone Technology. This acquisition aligns with Google’s focus on ease of migration as a differentiator for its cloud services.
On February 19, Google Cloud announced its acquisition of Cornerstone Technology. This acquisition aligns with Google’s focus on ease of migration as a differentiat... On February 19, Google Cloud announced its acquisition of Cornerstone Technology. Source: Google Our Take Like Google’s play with its Anthos platform, marketed as a big red easy.
Google Workspace
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Google makes it easy by keeping you and your coworkers connected everywhere you go on any device.
Google makes it easy by keeping you and your coworkers connected everywhere you go on any device.
Google Announces Major G-Suite Updates
Vendor Research: Infrastructure & Operations
Google has announced several updates to its G-Suite offering, which aims to heavily integrate and better secure its teamwork applications. The move represents a clear attempt by Google to directly compete with Microsoft’s office productivity suite, with several of the G-Suite updates mirroring...
Google has announced several updates to its G-Suite offering, which aims to heavily integrate and better secure its teamwork applications. Google has announced several updates to its G-Suite offering, which aims to heavily integrate and better secure its teamwork applications. Source: SoftwareReviews Google Hangouts Meet Scorecard. Accessed July.
Google BigQuery
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BigQuery is a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform that helps you maximize value from your data and is designed to be multi-engine, multi-format, and multi-cloud. Use BigQuery to manage all data types across clouds, structured and unstructured, with fine-grained access controls. BigQuery's serverless architecture lets you use SQL queries to analyze your data. You can store and analyze your data within BigQuery or use BigQuery to assess your data where it lives.
BigQuery is a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform that helps you maximize value from your data and is designed to be multi-engine, multi-format, and multi-cloud. Use BigQuery to manage all data types across clouds, structured and unstructured, with fine-grained access controls. BigQuery's serverless architecture lets you use SQL.
Google Builds AI-Powered Tools for Patient Care: Project Nightingale
Vendor Research: Data & Business Intelligence
Google has been accused of secretly collecting sensitive patient data in the US on behalf of the healthcare provider Ascension. While most of the criticism has been about data privacy, we should also consider what Google intends this data for.
Project Nightingale, as it is known, builds on Google’s previous investments and partnerships in the healthcare space, including a recent acquisition of Fitbit. And AI is a flywheel technology that has the potential to shift power within companies, within industries, and even globally between countries, writes Ajay Agrawal, author of “Prediction.
Google Cloud’s Acquisition Journey Provides Hints to GCP’s Strategy
Vendor Research: Vendor Management
As Google Cloud prepares to finalize its $2.4B acquisition of Looker, a data analytics company, a look back at recently announced acquisitions sheds light on GCP’s shift towards building capabilities that can directly compete with Azure and AWS.
As Google Cloud prepares to finalize its $2.4B acquisition of Looker, a data analytics company, a look back at recently announced acquisitions sheds light on GCP’s shift towards building capabilities that can directly compete with Azure and AWS. Source: Google Cloud Platform at SoftwareReviews, Accessed February 16, 2020 A recent investor.
AI Transformation Brief – November 2025
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The latest AI investment announcements from Google, Anthropic, Amazon, and Microsoft.
VOL 2 NO 11 | NOV. 2025 INFO-TECH AI INSIGHTS AI Transformation Brief Featuring AI best practices and insights to enable our membe... In This Issue AI in the News | AI Research Highlights | Vendor Spotlight | Upcoming Events & Resources AI IN THE NEWS Google pledges $40 billion investment to build AI data centers in.
AI Transformation Brief – April 2026
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The latest news from the AI Big Tech Vendors: Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Cohere, Aleph Alpha, and Oracle and a brief review of how PepsiCo is benefiting from their implementation of agentic AI.
Google releases Agentic Defense, Gemma 4, and commits to a multi-gigawatt TPU capacity with Anthropic and Broadcom Agentic Defense Gemma 4 Multi-Gigawatt Partnership With Anthropic and Broadcom On March 23, 2026, Google officially completed its acquisition of Wiz and introduced agentic security innovations, including a Triage and Investigation.
Google Cloud
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Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.
Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.
Copper
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A Google-recommended CRM, Copper integrates and works seamlessly with your Gmail, Calendar and Drive so you never have to switch tabs to add contacts, track emails, find files and manage tasks in your marketing and sales process.
A Google-recommended CRM, Copper integrates and works seamlessly with your Gmail, Calendar and Drive so you never have to switch tabs to add contacts, track emails, find files and manage tasks in your marketing and sales process.
Google Introduces Anthos in a Bid to Embrace Hybridity
Vendor Research: Infrastructure & Operations
Google has rebranded its Cloud Services Platform as Anthos and announced compatibility across platforms. Users will be able to manage hybrid cloud deployments in Azure and AWS, along with Google Cloud. This is an acknowledgement from Google that the cloud’s future is hybrid, and that the major...
Google has rebranded its Cloud Services Platform as Anthos and announced compatibility across platforms. Google has rebranded its Cloud Services Platform as Anthos and announced compatibility across platforms. Sundar Pichai describes Google’s vision for Anthos as allowing developers to “write once, run anywhere.”. Our Take Google’s bet on Anthos.
Google Leapfrogs the Competition With Google Cloud Hybrid Beta
Vendor Research: Vendor Management
Google is advancing hybrid cloud technology by offering a software-only solution for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), based on its container technology, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This approach is in contrast with the competition that is offering appliance-based hybrid solutions, likely at a...
Google is advancing hybrid cloud technology by offering a software-only solution for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), based on its container technology, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Google is advancing hybrid cloud technology by offering a software-only solution for the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), based on its container technology, Google.
AI Transformation Brief – May 2026
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The latest AI news from OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cohere, DeepSeek, sovereign AI efforts, and an agentic AI customer reference story from Jernia.
...he operating system, the unveiling of Gemini Intelligence, and the new Googlebook laptop line, represent a direct competitive threat against Apple’s and Microsoft’s desktop ecosystems.Google’s Agent Platform introduces much-needed governance architectures like Agent Identity (assigns every AI agent a unique cryptographic ID) and Agent Gateway.
Google Insider Reveals How Greed Killed Big Tech
Podcast Episode:
Claire Stapleton spent 12 years at Google, going from one of the company's biggest believers to one of its most prominent employee organizers. In this episode, former Google communications leader,...
Former Google communications leader, Google Walkout organizer, and Don’t Be Evil author Claire Stapleton reveals what happened inside Google as its celebrated culture of openness, employee empowerment, and idealism began to change. In this episode, former Google communications leader, Google Walkout organizer, and Don’t Be Evil author Claire.
Google AI Mode Has Serious Website Implications
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Google’s AI Mode is a wake-up call for websites that have not followed best practices for structured data.
Google’s AI Mode is a wake-up call for websites that have not followed best practices for structured data. Google has introduced a new experiment called AI Mode, which is currently available to Google One AI Premium subscribers and those who have opted into AI Labs. ...to have a significant impact on websites,Facing this pressure and seeing that.
AI Transformation Brief – June 2025
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The latest AI announcements from the AWS Washington Summit 2025, Microsoft Build 2025, Google I/O, DeepSeek, and Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.
Announcements focused on Agentic AI included: Google search updated with AI mode Jules, a new AI coding assistant Gemini Canvas, a code assistant for non-developers Project Mariner, enabling 10 agents to operate simultaneously Updated agent development kits for Python and.

