Google, the IT giant, has several programs for helping SME’s and start-ups. In Romania, so far, the company have concentrated on online marketing, helping 7,000 companies through ‘Grow by Google’- Atelierul Digital. Now it has moved on education, with courses for programming, and to ideas that can be turned into businesses. Dan Oros, Google Romania’s Marketing Manager, talked to Business Review about the things that Google does in Romania in order to create better businesses or helping them to develop further. „We are promoting now an app called Market Finder, useful for all companies that want to export. The tooll is free and helps companies understand what country needs their product. For example: you produce wines and want to export; you can see through the application who is looking for and where is looking for wines or Romanian wines. And then you make the decision to export based on data, not on intuition,” says Oros. „In addition to … [Read more...] about BR Exclusive! Dan Oros, Google: After helping 7,000 Romanian companies we turn to students with good business ideas
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Google clarifies its location-tracking policy
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google has revised a help page that erroneously described how its "Location History" setting works, clarifying for users that it still tracks their location even if they turn the setting off. On Monday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that several Google apps and websites store user location even if users have turned off Location History. Google has not changed that practice. But its help page now states: "This setting does not affect other location services on your device." It also acknowledges that "some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other services, like Search and Maps." Previously, the page stated: "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." The AP observed that the change occurred midday Thursday, three days after the AP's initial report. In a statement to the AP, Google said: "We have been updating the explanatory language about Location History to make it more consistent and clear across our … [Read more...] about Google clarifies its location-tracking policy
EU Is Fighting the Last Tech War Against Google
The greatest hope of European regulators cracking down on Google’s business practices is that the rest of the world becomes a little more like China and its flourishing technology industry. It’s hard to imagine the European bureaucrats’ dreams will come true. In China, government restrictions and Google’s strategic decisions have left the country’s technology market to operate almost free from the search giant’s grip for years. As a result, Google’s web search is a bit player. Local companies dominate internet searches and just about every other technology imaginable. They have sold billions of smartphones running modified versions of Google’s Android software, but without Google’s apps or app store. Homegrown companies have sprung up to create valuable, innovative consumer technology services that are seeding ideas for the rest of the world. China’s technology explosion might have happened even … [Read more...] about EU Is Fighting the Last Tech War Against Google
Google, Belarus’ Hi-Tech Park agree to jointly advance HTP resident companies
MINSK, 20 April (BelTA) – Google and Belarus' Hi-Tech Park (HTP) have agreed to jointly advance the park's resident companies, BelTA learned from the park following the meeting of HTP Director Vsevolod Yanchevsky with Google's Country Manager for New Markets in Central and Eastern Europe Goetz Trillhaas in the administration of the park.The parties discussed cooperation in supporting and advancing product companies, developing an ecosystem for Belarusian startups.Google representatives spoke about their experience in cooperation with foreign technological parks. They showcased new marketing instruments for product companies, which help identify demands for services and goods for certain market types and provide an opportunity to organize a search for markets outside the country.The HTP director got the guests familiar with the new possibilities for foreign development centers thanks to Belarus' recent Decree No.8 “Concerning the development of digital economy”.Google … [Read more...] about Google, Belarus’ Hi-Tech Park agree to jointly advance HTP resident companies
Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America’s Wealth Gap Worse
Their romance began on a server at a San Francisco startup. Anna Wood had submitted a profile to the League, a dating app aimed at young professionals. She was the perfect prospect: Degree from a top university? Check. Management-track job at a marquee company? Check. Carefully selected profile pictures and a winning smile? Check and check.The League’s algorithm quickly matched Wood, who’d been working in sales at Google and had just been admitted to Stanford University’s business school, with Tracy Thomas, an employee at a Bay Area startup with a wardrobe straight out of preppy clothier Vineyard Vines. Within a week, they’d arranged to meet at a tennis tournament. Sushi, drinks, and frozen yogurt followed. Three years later, they’re engaged and living in Los Angeles while Thomas wraps up his own business degree. “It was important to me that someone I was going on a date with was well-educated and driven, and had a lot … [Read more...] about Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America’s Wealth Gap Worse