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Motor Insurers Need to Adapt to Ward Off Competition from Car Manufacturers
Jul 20 2016 // As internet-connected and, eventually, driverless vehicles roll off production lines, traditional motor insurers need to adapt to ward off competition from car manufacturers. Insurers have struggled for years to make a...
Internet of Things Is Industry Disruptor that Could Benefit Innovators: Efma Report
Jul 20 2016 // The steady advance of the internet of things (IoT) presents a huge number of opportunities for insurers – as well as threats, according to a digest published by Efma*. The rise in connected homes, connected cars and the...
Google, Facebook, Twitter Sued by Father of Victim of Paris Terrorist Attack
Jun 21 2016 // The father of a young woman killed in the Paris massacre last November is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, claiming that the companies provided “material support” to extremists in violation of the...
Supreme Court Rejects Google Appeal of Class Action by Adwords Advertisers
Jun 7 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court’s decision to allow a class action lawsuit against Google Inc. to proceed regarding claims that the company deceived California advertisers about the placement...
Jury Sides with Google; Oracle Loses $9 Billion Copyright Claim
May 27 2016 // Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle Corp.’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business. Oracle contended that Google needed a license to use its Java programming language...
Previous Telecom Efforts Flopped But Google, Apple See Future for Telemedicine
May 16 2016 // Google and Apple Inc. have some bright ideas about the future of health care. Not so long ago, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. had similar ideas: a networked world of devices and services that would...
Stakes Are High at Google vs. Oracle Copyright Trial #2
May 10 2016 // Oracle Corp. and Google are stepping before a jury a second time with potentially $9.3 billion on the line, and the prospect of profoundly changing how software is protected and licensed. The “World Series” of...
Reuters Special Report: How Google Is Winning Acceptance of Driverless Vehicles
Apr 27 2016 // The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Plaza in Austin, Texas is a strip mall with a pet-accessories store, a Thai restaurant and a yogurt shop, an unlikely venue to display the high-tech future. But one Saturday morning in March,...
Who Wins, Loses In a Driverless Car Economy?
Apr 26 2016 // The automotive and tech companies pursuing the driverless car share a utopian belief: Autonomous vehicles will benefit society, eventually saving most of the nearly 33,000 people each year killed in road accidents in...
Google, Ridesharing Firms, Automakers Form Lobby Group for Self-Driving Cars
Apr 26 2016 // A group of companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Ford Motor Co. and Uber Technologies Inc., are forming a coalition to advocate for safety regulations for self-driving cars and to bring them to American...
Mississippi AG Hood Wins Right to Continue Google Probe
Apr 11 2016 // Google can’t duck an investigation by the Mississippi attorney general into objectionable search engine content that the company calls a threat to Internet freedom. A U.S. appeals court said Friday that a judge was...
Driverless Car Supporters Urge National Laws to Override State, Local
Mar 16 2016 // A patchwork of state laws governing the operation of self-driving cars threatens to stall their development, supporters told lawmakers as U.S. senators began consideration of a national standard for robotic...
Federal Safety Agency Asking Google About Self-Driving Car Accident
Mar 11 2016 // The top U.S. auto safety regulator said Thursday the agency is seeking additional details of a recent crash of an Alphabet Inc. Google self-driving car in California. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief...
Google Self-Driving Car Hits Bus in California Crash
Mar 7 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google self-driving car struck a municipal bus in a minor crash, in what may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle. In a Feb. 23 report filed with California...
Compare.com CEO Encouraged by Admiral Group’s Record 2015 Profit
Mar 3 2016 // Admiral Group plc on Thursday announced record profit for last year, and the CEO of one of its biggest brands is taking that as an endorsement of his popular online insurance shopping business model. Compare.com CEO Andrew...
Self-Driving Car Developers Betting on Senior Citizen Market
Mar 2 2016 // Florence Swanson has lived through every American car from the Ford Model T to the Tesla Model S. Now, at 94, she has stepped into what Google hopes will be the automotive future: self-driving vehicles. After her painting...
Google Takes Partial Blame After Self-Driving Car Hit Bus
Mar 1 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it bears “some responsibility” after one of its self-driving cars struck a municipal bus in a minor crash earlier this month. The crash may be the first case of one...
More Than 40% of Insurers See Google as Potential Threat: Capgemini Report
Mar 1 2016 // More than 40 percent of insurers see Google as a potential threat because of its strong brand and ability to use customer data, a report released on Tuesday said. And young, mobile phone-friendly consumers may bypass...
Google Self-Driving Car Hits Bus in California Crash
Feb 29 2016 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google self-driving car struck a municipal bus in a minor crash, in what may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle. In a Feb. 23 report filed with California...
With Google Gone, What’s the Future for Online Insurance Shopping?
Feb 25 2016 // The demise of Google’s online insurance comparison site Google Compare is being hailed by some in the industry as a victory for the traditional agency system. But agents may want to hold off on breaking out the...
