JILLIAN D'ONFRO
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Google Maps is the 'Swiss army knife' of the company's smart assistant future
The second part is finding new kinds of data to take in. Maps already uses anonymized info from any…
Why millions of people are helping Google build the most accurate Maps in the world
The Maps division is still in the early stages of rolling out "promoted pin" ads which will suggest…
The Google-funded free wifi kiosks are scrapping web browsing because too many people were using it for porn
As New Yorkers ourselves, we want LinkNYC to provide the best possible experience for Link users an…
Why Google had to kill a part of its speedy delivery service to prepare for its next big expansion
Google launched its Shopping Express delivery service back in 2013, in part to avert Amazon's encro…
Facebook just rubbed one of Google's biggest missed opportunities in its face
Allo integrates in-line suggestions (like for recipes or places to eat) and could stop the existent…
Apple laid off dozens of employees working on its self-driving car
While Apple has never publically acknowledged that it's working on a vehicle, The Wall Street Journ…
This woman calls the shots on every name Google uses - except the one time Larry Page thought a name was 'icky'
She nailed her interview because she came prepared with a huge architecture tree of every product t…
10 years ago FB had 'the most inglorious launch moment in history' but it changed everything
And the feed has given Facebook an unprecedented amounts of power over people's digital l…
Here's another clue about Snapchat's secret hardware project
Sources previously told Business Insider that Snapchat is "very serious" about a hardware play. The…
Here's what it's really like interning at Google
The search giant set the standard for the kinds of employee perks that have spread through
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Larry Page's grand plan for Google looks more like a mess than a success
A recent report from The Information's Kevin McLaughlin says that Craig Barratt, the leader of the …
AT&T just wrote a killer note to Google Fiber that's part take-down, part tantrum
Google's service has been a big threat to AT&T and other telcos since it promised to offer fast…
Google's secretive skunkworks lab wants to make a new multiplayer smartphone game
Gaming isn't an area Google has generally cared about in the past, but it may be smarting from the …
Google is bringing part of the troubled Nest group back into the fold
All of Alphabet's subsidiaries have strict budgets to adhere to (former Nest CEO Tony Fadell said i…
With increasing 'overlap' between in self-driving car efforts, an Alphabet exec has stepped down from Uber's board
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said in a statement that Drummond has "been a sage advisor and a great per…
An Uber board member isn't allowed to come to meetings anymore because he works at Alphabet
Bill Maris, formerly the head of GV, which invested in Google, recently said on stage that his team…
Facebook is telling the world it's not a media company, but it might be too late
Top of mind, the company just announced that it will no longer have humans write the descriptions f…
Facebook just made a surprising move that could save its one shrinking business
Details so far are sparse and Facebook has a formidable opponent in Steam, a gaming platform that t…
Mark Zuckerberg just unloaded $95 million worth of stock for his charity foundation
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan created the initiative as a vessel to give away all their we…
Facebook's latest defense against Snapchat was built for teens, by a teen
The standalone product is meant for high schoolers to learn more about their classmates, and kids c…
Here's how much you would have made if you'd invested in Google at its IPO
In the immediate aftermath, employees who made big money were warned not to buy BMWs (or else they'…
Here's what it's really like to intern at Facebook
Think cool projects, cushy wages, and an emphasis on empowerment. Facebook treats its interns …
The incredible rise of Ruth Porat, CFO at one of the most valuable companies in the world
Now, she's earned the same distinction in the tech world as she's guided Google through blowing up …
Mark Zuckerberg: CEOs need to take risks, but shouldn't have to do 'big, crazy things'
"We bought the Oculus team for a lot of money. I actually view that as if we'd done a better j…
The simple way I made my News Feed so much better by blocking the feature Facebook's obsessed with
Obviously, a lot of people do love getting sucked into Facebook videos, but the less…