Tag: Google
Apple Pay to launch in Israel, Google pay to start soon
Apple Pay, a digital payment service, is scheduled to launch in Israel next week, allowing iPhone users to pay digitally for the first time in Israel.
The iPhone has about a 30 percent market share...
Google taps seasoned Israeli to lead chip-design team
Google announced on Monday that it’s appointing Uri Frank as vice president of engineering to lead a team developing server chips in Israel.
Google stated that it seeks to develop systems on chip (SoC), where...
Google, Amazon, Wish remove white-supremacist items from platforms
Google, Amazon and Wish have removed neo-Nazi and white-supremacist products from their platforms following an investigation by the BBC.
Despite the prohibition of such items on those sites, the BBC found that they were available for...
The social geography of the BDS movement and anti-Semitism
Hillel Frisch’s highly original analysis of the popularity of BDS raises important questions about the character of this global “movement.” In brief, by examining the geography of Google queries on BDS and Israel’s legitimacy, Frisch concludes...
Israeli cloud computing company acquired by Amazon for $250 million
CloudEndure, an Israeli company, confirmed that it had been acquired by AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, for $250 million, Globes reported on Thursday.
“CloudEndure is now an Amazon Web Services company. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner since 2016,...
Report: 170K anti-Semitic Google searches a year in UK, 10 percent violent phrases
Approximately 170,000 Google searches in the United Kingdom annually are anti-Semitic with 10 percent of them consisting of violent keywords such as “kill Jews” and “Jews must die,” according to a report.
The study, commissioned...
Lawfare Project threatens suit against Yahoo, Google and Twitter in Spain for proliferation of...
The Lawfare Project threatened legal action against Google, Yahoo and Twitter in Spain for failing to address the proliferation of Holocaust-denial websites and anti-Semitic materials on their platforms, announced Brooke Goldstein, director of the...
Google allowed advertisers to target people searching racist phrases
Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms into its search bar, BuzzFeed News has discovered. Not only that, Google will suggest additional...