Google: big bets on future tech are sign of an empire bidding for immortality

We have got used to Google as a massive global success story. But sometimes the detail is more interesting than the top line. On February 1 an announcement by the firm’s holding company Alphabet gave investors their first real insight into the relative performances of its different parts. And it revealed a lot about a section of the operation of which we previously knew very little – the large number of investments into technologies that are some distance from the core businesses.

Full Story: https://theconversation.com/google-big-bets-on-future-tech-are-sign-of-an-empire-bidding-for-immortality-54133

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Four problems the revamped Google should tackle now it’s free to innovate

https://theconversation.com/four-problems-the-revamped-google-should-tackle-now-its-free-to-innovate-45997

(Many thanks to Kemble Fletcher for sharing)