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Sergey Brin Comes Out Of Retirement To Work On Gemini, Admits He Made A 'Lot Of Mistakes' With Google Glass As Alphabet Ramps Up To Compete With Meta And Apple
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 12:03am | 786On Tuesday, at Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google I/O 2025, Sergey Brin admitted his past missteps with Google Glass. What Happened: During a surprise interview, Brin said that he "made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass," adding that he didn't know much about the consumer...
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Tim Cook Seems To Have Addressed A Million Dollar Question — Why It Took Apple Years To Enter AR Market
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 1:34am | 618Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is reportedly planning to debut its first mixed-reality, or MR, headset during the Annual Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC, this year — and its CEO, Tim Cook, has finally addressed why it took the company seven years to introduce the headset. What Happened: Apple...
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Apple Doesn't Set The Table Anymore
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:50am | 323Bloomberg reported on Monday that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is looking to sell its own version of digital glasses that can connect wireless to an iPhone. Sound familiar? As noted by Gadfly's Shira Ovide, Apple's next hot product is a new version of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s...
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StreetSweeper Shorts Himax, Says Analysts Are Expecting 'Impossible' Growth This Year
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 12:46pm | 482Shares of Himax Technologies, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ: HIMX) lost more than 3 percent on Monday following a scathing report by The Street Sweeper. According to The Street Sweeper's Sonya Colberg, Himax's stock is "shooting over the moon" following a 45 percent gain over the past...
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Should Google And Amazon Open Retail Stores?
Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 4:07pm | 578As the next generation of technology is at our doorsteps, should Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) open retail stores? Google has its Nexus line, Chromecast, Chromebooks, Wallet, Google TV and soon Google Glass. Not to mention Nest is still in the company's pipeline and poised...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Monday, August 12
Monday, August 12, 2013 - 11:21am | 1041There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical. 1. deltahedge deltahedge (@minefornothing) tweeted sarcastically about the building permits...
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63% of Investors Don't Want an Apple iWatch
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 12:31pm | 499Are investors excited by Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) rumored iWatch concept? Yahoo Finance (NASDAQ: YHOO) searched for an answer when it published its latest poll, which asked investors the following question: Apple is reportedly developing a new wristwatch. How interested would you be in buying an...
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More than 1,000 Developers Sign Up for Google's Project Glass
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 9:42am | 152Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) long-awaited Project Glass prototype is proving to be much more popular with the development community than the company anticipated. "As of 4:00 p.m. [yesterday], about 1,200 developers signed up [for the] preview release of Google Glasses," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing...
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Google to Overtake Apple in 2016
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 2:00pm | 1396The iPhone maker's days are numbered. You've been warned. I frequently tell my friends and colleagues that it would only take one brilliant device for Sony (NYSE: SNE), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), or Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) to turn themselves around. If it's popular...
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Why Google is My Favorite Company
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 10:16am | 1134From innovative search and map technology to smartphones and Project Glass, Google has grown into one of the most important tech companies in the world. And now it's my favorite company. I'm not an investor. I don't have any positions on the company's stock. Frankly, I really don't care if Google...
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Google "Project Glass" Promo Uses Kindle Song
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:07am | 365Coincidence or copycat? While watching the scarily impressive video for Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) brilliant digital glasses project, Project Glass, I couldn't help but notice that there was something familiar about it. Not the glasses themselves, but something within the video. Then it hit me: the...
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Google Pays Beautiful Woman to Make Project Glass Look Cool
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 1:11pm | 832She's hot. She's sexy. And she's got a dorky piece of eyewear attached to her face. It turns out that the rumors were true -- Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) does want to augment our reality. But instead of doing it with silly apps and other gimmicks that will die off faster than a Top 40 one-hit-wonder,...