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13Jul/190

In order to catch up with the pace of Amazon, Google Cloud began to pay for the acquisition

Google announced on Tuesday that it will acquire cloud storage service provider Elastifile. This is another acquisition by Google Cloud Computing under the leadership of the new CEO, Thomas Kurian. However, Google did not give a specific price for the deal in the official press release, but said it expects to complete the deal later this year.

On June 6 this year, Google announced that it would acquire data analysis software company Looker for $2.6 billion in cash and merge the company into Google Cloud, the largest acquisition of Google's cloud business to date. It is reported that as a business intelligence platform (BI, Business Intelligence), Looker has received the $81.5 million Series D financing led by venture capital Capital G, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet. Google Cloud CEO has publicly stated that Google Cloud is catching up with AWS, the cloud market leader, and investing more in its own cloud business.

It is worth noting that Microsoft also attempted to catch up with Amazon in the field of cloud computing. Last month, Microsoft and Oracle reached a cooperation agreement. According to the agreement between Microsoft and Oracle, the two parties will work together on the cloud computing services of the two companies by establishing a high-speed connection between the data centers of the two companies. The connection will begin in the eastern United States and then expand to other areas. In addition, the two parties also said that after the cooperation, the common corporate customers can log in to any company's services with a single user name and receive technical support from the corresponding company. The combination of Microsoft and Oracle will bring new threats to AWS.

Oracle sees Amazon Cloud Services (AWS) as its main competitor in the database market, which is no longer a secret in the industry. And Microsoft's influence in the global technology circle is not to be underestimated. Although there is still some consensus on the details of the cooperation between the two, the two cloud businesses fit together, like the research firm Gartner analyst Ed. As analyzed by Ed Anderson, Amazon cloud services may suffer "a big hit."

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13Jul/190

Google Amazon “armistice”: open video services to the other device

Google and Amazon are among the top four Internet giants in the world, and in recent years there has been direct competition in more and more areas. Previously, the two companies launched a "war" to block their own hardware video services.

According to the latest news from foreign media, on July 9th, Amazon and Google ended the "war state", and YouTube's original video service YouTube resumed on Amazon's set-top box.

Google announced on the same day that YouTube Kids and YouTube Live TV will be available to Amazon hardware later this year.

In response, Amazon Video's online video service Prime Video will also be available on Google Video device Chromecast products and Android TV platform devices.

According to reports, Google initially promised to re-launch YouTube on Amazon's set-top box in April this year.

In December 2017, as Google and Amazon's competition in online video began to heat up, Google cancelled support for YouTube services.

As a retaliatory measure, Amazon's website has stopped selling Google's hardware products, such as Google's smart speakers and Nest cameras, which compete with Amazon's Echo speakers and Amazon's Ring cameras.

Later, the two companies began to show signs of easing. For example, Amazon.com still does not sell Google smart speakers, but has already started selling the smart home hardware of the Google Nest brand.

In order to circumvent Google's blockade, a third-party YouTube app has appeared on Amazon's set-top box Fire TV device, but it only takes users to the YouTube site and does not provide a complete video viewing experience.

After reopening, the new YouTube app will support 4K HDR streaming, and users can ask Alexa Voice Assistant to play videos or control content from the service.

YouTube will be available on the TVs of the Fire TV Stick, TV Cube and Toshiba, Element, Insignia and Westinghouse on Tuesday, with Amazon's Fire TV software installed.

Once upon a time, Amazon was a professional e-commerce site, and Google was the world's largest web search service provider. The two giants seemed to be "well water does not make rivers." But today, both companies have undergone massive diversification and expansion, forming direct competition in more and more fields, including cloud computing, network video, voice assistants, smart speakers, online music services, video playback hardware, and Internet products. Advertising, etc.

It is worth mentioning that in the field of smart speakers, Google has adopted a strategy of quickly imitating the Amazon product line, launched smart speakers of different price and different sizes, and now the global smart speaker market has been dominated by Google and Amazon.

In the past, Amazon also launched smartphones and competed with Google’s own mobile phones for the market. However, Amazon’s mobile phone project failed, and products have been discontinued.

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13Jul/190

Google acknowledges that some partners have leaked more than 1,000 confidential conversation recordings

Google has admitted on Thursday (7.11) that some partners have leaked more than 1,000 copies of conversations between customers and Google Assistant to a Belgian news site.

Companies such as Google and Amazon (2011, 9.93, 0.50%) use these conversations to improve the voice response capabilities of their Assistant services, and conversations should be confidential.

But the Belgian news site VRT said on Wednesday that a contractor provided a sample of such a dialogue, and the website used the samples to identify some of them. The VRT website also checks what type of conversation information Google collects when it says "OK Google" on a mobile phone or Google Home product. In addition, VRT also heard information such as customer address in the conversation. Sources who have spoken with the site also said they heard a recording of a conversation with a sad woman and a recording of people talking about medical conditions.

Google has now admitted that there are indeed conversational recordings leaked.

“We just learned that a language inspector leaked confidential Dutch audio data, which violated our data security policy,” said David Monsee, Google search product manager. “Our Security and Privacy Response team is investigating this matter and we will take action. We are conducting a comprehensive review of our safeguards in this area to prevent similar misconduct from happening again.”

Monsi said that Google's partners can only hear "about 0.2% of all audio clips" and said that the information "is not related to the user account." However, VRT recognizes the identity of the interlocutor in certain audio segments.

Google Assistant users can easily delete their own voice history.

When a user talks to Amazon's voice assistant service, Alexa, Amazon also collects voice clips and analyzes them manually. However, users can prevent Alexa from using this information to improve Amazon's services and delete their own historical recordings.

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13Jul/190

After Amazon, Google smart speakers also exposed privacy issues

The Irish Data Privacy Regulatory Authority may investigate Google. Earlier, the Belgian broadcast VRT said that Google hired contractors to listen to the audio obtained by its intelligent voice assistant.

Graham Doyle, spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Council, said the agency received a Google notice of violation on Thursday night. Google responded in a blog post on Thursday after the Belgian broadcaster VRT reported that contractors could listen to conversations with people talking to Google Assistant.

The Irish regulator is Google's main privacy regulator in the European Union. If it finds a serious violation, the agency may impose a high fine on Google in accordance with the latest data protection rules of the European Union.

Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon said in an interview last month that she conducted about 20 surveys of large technology companies, including WhatsApp and Instagram platforms owned by Twitter, Apple and Facebook.

Google said in a blog post on Thursday that it is working with language experts to help improve its home digital assistant. They "review and transcribe a small set of query data to help us better understand these languages," which is "a key part of the process of building speech technology and a necessary condition for creating products such as Google Assistant."

Google also said: "We just learned that one of the language auditors leaked confidential Dutch audio data, which violates our data security policy. Our security and privacy response team has been activated on this issue, right The matter is investigated and action will be taken. We are conducting a comprehensive review of the safeguards on this issue to prevent this misconduct from happening again."

In fact, Google is not the first technology giant to expose privacy issues. Previously, the popular Amazon smart speaker Echo was also experiencing similar problems.

Amazon employs thousands of people around the world to help improve Alexa voice assistants and power their Echo line of speakers. This huge team listened to the recordings captured in the Echo owners' homes and offices. These recordings are transcribed, annotated, and fed back into the software. The Amazon team aims to eliminate Alexa's understanding of human language and help it better respond to consumer voice commands.

According to reports, listeners will hear what Echo users prefer to keep their privacy: for example, a woman who sings an unpleasant song in a shower, or a child who screams for help. In addition, these staff members often hear frustrating conversations and may even be the voice of the criminal process.

Earlier this year, the US media "The Intercept" reported that employees of Amazon's subsidiary RING manually identified vehicles and personnel in the video taken by the company's doorbell camera in order to better train the software to do the job themselves. .

Florian Schaub, a professor at the University of Michigan, who is an expert on the privacy of smart speakers, said: "You don't necessarily think of another person who is interested in listening to you. I think we are used to the assumption that these machines are only Do magical machine learning. But the truth is that human employees still need to deal with it."

He added: "Does this involve privacy issues, depending on how cautious Amazon and other companies are about the types of information they manually annotate and how they present this information to others."

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