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#BlackHistory #BlackHistorymonth #AfricanAmerican #Google  The most searched performance. The most searched tap dancer. The most searched poet. The most searched talk show. The results? Agents of change, or as Google has deemed them: Black history makers. Google’s new progressive Black History Month video is based on 15 years of search data collected from 2004 through July 2019 -- showcasing the most searched topics and consequently the iconic results and their contribution to history. “There are moments in history that captivate us all," reads the video’s introduction before flashing to Beyonce’s Coachella show, the most searched performance on the platform. In seconds, the ad rewinds to the past showing Prince, the most searched guitar solo and highlights famed poet Maya Angelou. Nearly a minute into the video, viewers are introduced to the most searched NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, her contributions to the space agency highlighted in the 2016 film “Hidd...

#YouTube #YouTubeMusic #Google During the Alphabet 2019 Q4 earnings call, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai  provided  an update on how many paid YouTube Music and Premium subscribers there are. There were also official figures for cord-cutting service YouTube TV. Last May, Bloomberg  reported  15 million subscribers one year after launch for YouTube Music. Both YouTube Music Premium and YouTube Premium now combine to have 20 million subscribers. YouTube Music Premium costs $9.99 for ad-free playback, background streaming, and offline downloads. For $2 more, YouTube Premium extends those benefits to all video content across the service. In comparison, Apple Music has  60 million subscribers  as of mid-2019, while Amazon Music  just announced  55 million members and Spotify leads at 113 million. Meanwhile,  last March , YouTube TV was said to have 1 million subscribers. Nearly a year later, this has doubled to 2 mill...

#YouTubeMusic #Google #MusicStreaming #Singles #Remix  YouTube overhauled its music streaming app in early 2018, and it's taken off since then. The  Alphabet   ( NASDAQ:GOOG )   ( NASDAQ:GOOGL )  subsidiary grew its music streaming app from fewer than 8 million active users at the end of 2017, to more than 77 million active users by the end of 2019, according to data from App Annie. Much of that growth stems from launches in developing markets like India and Brazil, which capitalizes on the popularity of its free video streaming platform on mobile. Spotify   ( NYSE:SPOT )  has contended that YouTube is the biggest free music streaming service in the world since it filed to go public. And since it made its direct listing, YouTube Music has proven a formidable competitor. Spotify still boasts a lot more users than YouTube -- 248 million total including 113 million premium subscribers -- but the success of YouTube cannot be discounted. ...

#Google #Alphabet #Fitbit #Fitnesstracker  Google  parent company  Alphabet  will buy  Fitbit , according to an  announcement  Friday, putting the tech giant head-to-head with  Apple  in the fitness tracking space. The deal values Fitbit around $2.1 billion at a fully diluted equity value, according to the release. On Monday, Fitbit's stock surged more than 30% on news that Alphabet had made an offer to acquire the smartwatch maker. As of Monday's close, Fitbit's market cap sat at $1.5 billion, up $340 million from the previous trading day. As of the end of 2018, Apple owned about half of the global smartwatch market in 2018 in terms of units shipped, according to  Strategy Analytics . Google currently licenses its  Wear  operating system to companies such as  Fossil  but does not make its own smartwatch.  Following the announcement, Google's hardware chief Rick Osterloh released a  blog pos...

#Google #Alphabet #Fitbit #Smartwatch #Fitnesstracker Google  parent company  Alphabet  made an offer to acquire  Fitbit , a source familiar with the matter told CNBC Monday.  Reuters  first reported that Alphabet made the offer to buy Fitbit. Fitbit's stock was halted after skyrocketing more than 18%. The stock resumed trading and ended the day up 30.5%, adding more than $330 million to its market cap to bring it to around $1.5 billion. Fitbit shares are now up more than 12% for 2019. It's unclear how much Alphabet offered to buy Fitbit. The deal would make Alphabet a player in the wearable fitness tracking space, competing against the likes of  Apple , which recently released a new version of its popular smartwatch. Google licenses its  Wear  operating system to companies such as  Fossil  but does not currently make its own smartwatch. Google has described its hardware strategy as  "ambient computing," ...

#RCS #Google #RCSchat #Android #Sprint #Verizon #ATT #TMobile The latest Google Messages beta brings RCS chat to Android phones, but it needs to be enabled in a hidden settings menu. RCS seems to work in every country we tested it in (not an exhaustive list), and with several different Android phones. RCS also seems to work on all carriers we've tried, including the four big U.S. carriers. It wasn't too long ago that Google enabled RCS Chat on Android phones  in some European countries , and now it seems ready to flip the switch in a number of other countries as well. A rather astute user  on Reddit  figured out that enabling RCS on Android devices is just a few clicks away, and it has us wondering why it's this easy when U.S. carriers can't seem just  flip the switch already . Enabling RCS on your phone isn't all that different from how it worked when Google flipped the switch for European users, but it involves just a few additional steps. Firs...

#Google #Pixel4 #Pixel4XL The Pixel 4 has at least five major new hardware-based features: face unlock, Motion Sense, the new Google Assistant, the new 90Hz display, and a second telephoto camera lens. It’s also available on all four major US carriers for the first time. The price starts at $799. Here’s The Verge review of the Pixel 4 with Dieter Bohn. The Verge

The history of smartphone improvement has largely relied on companies cramming faster or more powerful components into the now ubiquitous glass slabs we carry around. But the Pixel 3 is something else. Instead of focusing on things like a brighter screen, tons of RAM, or multiple rear cameras, almost all of the Pixel 3's advantages come from a software-first mindset. This results in a smarter, more intuitive experience that feels very different from the hardware-driven approaches employed by many of Google’s competitors. And while this isn’t Google’s first attempt at something like this, this third Pixel (we evaluated both it and the Pixel 3 XL) is the device that really pulls all of Google’s efforts together and makes it feel special.  Smartphones Smartphones Pixel 3 What is it? Google's new flagship smartphone Price Pixel 3 starts at $800, $900 for Pixel 3 XL Like Improved build, wireless charging, amazing cameras, innovative so...