Privacy Concerns

Google announced it will buy Fitbit.  Stephen Shankland/CNET Google's$2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit signals that the search giant is intent on burrowing deeper into our lives, giving it access to some of our most personal health information. If the company…

Google has reached into parent company Alphabet’s $121 billion cash reserves to spend $2.1 billion on Fitbit, a move into the key consumer health market that places them in more direct competition with rival Apple. For more than a year, Ftibit and Google hav…

If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em! Google has struggled to sell its own wearable device line Wear OS, but with some 28 million “active users,” buying Fitbit gives the tech giant a captive market – and access to those users' health data. Also on rt.comANYONE can…

Author(s): Julie A. Ask, Frank E. Gillett, and Jeff Becker Google has announced that it will acquire Fitbit for $2.1 billion. This acquisition will improve Googles health and wellness offerings and makes it more competitive. Forrester forecasts that smartwat…

Google is acquiring American wearable maker FitBit in a $2.1 billion dollar move that looks a lot like the ad-search giant's previous attempts to buy its way into a hardware business. Google announced it would pay $2.1 billion for FitBit, with its hardware ex…

But plans for Quayside, as the development is known, have also called for sensors and cameras to track the people who live, work or pass through the area. The resulting data, the company said, would be used to further shape the new community. That has spurre…

While the Echo lacks the smart hub features from the Pro model, I didn't miss them much. Previously, the biggest benefit with the more expensive model was better audio quality, but now that they sound the same, the Pro is even harder to recommend. I didn't fi…

Volvo claims its new infotainment system, based on Googles Android operating system (OS) and developed with the help of the American tech giant, will be as good to use as your mobile phone. The new system will make its debut in the Volvo XC40 Recharge and Po…

According to the regulator, the local Google unit for almost two years did not tell users of its Android operating system that they needed to switch off two settings - not one - if they did not want the company to keep their information. “Google’s conduct ca…

An Australian regulator has filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google, accusing it of misleading smartphone users about how it collected and used personal location data, advancing a global crackdown on the world's biggest tech firms. The Australian Compe…