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Is there a doctor in the house? There is if you have access to Apple’s Siri. Using information from the Centers for Disease Control and US Public Health Service, the Apple voice assistant will respond to users who ask such questions as “Do I have the coronavirus?” Siri is a virtual assistant that is part of Apple…

Updated with Twitter news: Twitter joined YouTube in canceling live events for advertisers this year in favor of streaming-only as the coronavirus continues to hit the upfront season. “Twitter will be producing a fully-streamed presentation for NewFronts this year. We’re excited to embrace this new level of…

Never mind the just-canceled South by Southwest, staffers of big tech companies  may not even be exiting their front doors if their bosses have any say as Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Google asked employees in Seattle and the Bay Area to work from home due to coronavirus fears. Apple is said to have made the request…

YouTube paid out $3 billion to the music industry in 2019 from ads and subscriptions as it partners to grow revenue and promote new artists, said CEO Susan Wojcicki. In a blog post Friday celebrating the company’s 15th birthday, she laid out some achievements and aspirations. The number of YouTube creators earning…

Months after Facebook launched a news product that pays publishers for content, Google is also said to be in talks about paying organizations a licensing fee for content for an unspecified new product. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, this batch of publishers are mostly outside the U.S., including…

Investors punished shares of Google Tuesday after parent Alphabet came in light on revenue in its latest earnings – and even as Wall Street and media watchers lapped up welcome details on YouTube which had never been previously released. Google revealed that YouTube ad revenue rose 31% in the fourth quarter to $4.7…

UPDATED with CEO comments from earnings call Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, said the advertising model for YouTube is changing an growing. Direct response is becoming increasingly popular with consumers and advertisers, he said, allowing for improved monetization of the social video…

Google has been ordered to turn over a year's worth of Jussie Smollett's emails, private messages, photographs and location data to a prosecutor investigating the dismissal of his criminal charges over an alleged attack early last year. The Chicago Tribune reported that it obtained two search warrants submitted by…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is getting a big salary bump with his expanded role as CEO of Alphabet. According to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Pichai will receive a $2 million salary, plus a $240 million stock package that’s set to take effect in 2020. The stock will be granted over three years and…

The top trending searches of the year have been announced by Google., which provides an annual look at what we’re all looking for in the world. From Jussie Smollett to Billy Porter to Disney+, people were eager to know more. Surprisingly, some of the year’s biggest controversies weren’t No. 1 in their categories, but…

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, have left their executive roles at its parent company, Alphabet. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet while remaining chief at Google. Page had been CEO of Alphabet and Brin had been president. They will continue to be involved in the tech giant as…

Google and The Boxoffice Company, a collection of entertainment and tech businesses owned by French digital media giant Webedia, have teamed up to enhance the process of buying movie tickets online. The new setup aims to make the task of selecting showtimes and seats and then paying for and managing tickets more…