Google, Amazon, Facebook, And Apple Are Hiring To Defend Against The ‘Techlash’
Tech giants are hiring people to help solve problems and repair the companies' images in areas including user privacy, elections security, AI and ethics, and more.
Tech giants are hiring people to help solve problems and repair the companies' images in areas including user privacy, elections security, AI and ethics, and more.
With the market expected to reach $7.7B by 2021, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each now offers serverless platforms as they compete to attract and retain customers.
While Amazon Web Services remains the dominant cloud services platform, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are increasing their market share. As a result, companies are employing "multi-cloud" strategies that are changing the structure of the cloud industry and the power dynamics that lie within.
Google's patent creates streamlined interactive cords that expand beyond standard control systems to improve both functionality and, most importantly, security.
Google's next big thing will likely come from one of its new priority areas, like cloud, transportation, and healthcare. Each has a massive, global addressable market and plays well to Google's strength in AI.
These organizations continue to pursue intellectual property as a way to maintain competitive advantage and avoid commoditization. We take a look at the patents filed to see how important cloud is in the race for IP.
Despite its greater cloud market share, Amazon has acquired half as many cloud-related companies as Microsoft or Google since 2013.
A new Google patent details a system that would use social networks to identify faces in images.
While AWS maintains over 30% market share, competitors like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform are closing the gap. In recent years, Microsoft has become increasingly aggressive in its pursuit of intellectual property related to cloud computing.
Google patented a technology to measure and track users' temperatures while they listen to pop songs or podcasts.