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• AWS generated almost half of all IaaS revenue in 2018

  ​The global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market has grown 31.3 per cent in 2018 generating US$32.4 billion in revenues according to research firm Gartner.

• Alphabet shares soar on new details into YouTube, cloud growth

  ​Alphabet shares rose nine per cent after the company reported quarterly results that eased investors' concerns about the growth challenges facing its Google advertising business.

• Google suspends New Zealand 'trending' emails after suspect's name released

  Google has suspended an email alerting system in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case, the company said on Friday.

• Thousands of dodgy copycat apps identified in Google Play Store

  ​A two year study has discovered 2040 malware-laden counterfeit apps in Android app store, Google Play.

• Google to buy analytics software firm Looker for US$2.6B

  ​Google has revealed it would buy Looker, a privately held big-data analytics company, for US$2.6 billion in cash, in the first major acquisition for new Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian.

• Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

  With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way

• What's keeping enterprises from using G Suite?

  While Google has spent the past year trying to woo enterprises to its G Suite productivity service, it’s still the underdog compared to Microsoft Office, at least among large businesses. So what’s keeping it from broader appeal?

• How Google overtook Apple in education

  Apple's longtime lock on the education market began to fall apart when Google first introduced Chromebooks more than five years ago. Here's how Google swept in and started to push Apple out.

• The 5 funniest Google Assistant responses

  Google’s new digital assistant – called Google Assistant – has upped the level of A.I. available to regular phone users thanks to the new Google Pixel phone and the Allo chat app. It assistant offers more than just voice recognition – it understands the context of what you’re saying. We suspect that the developers have also had some fun baking in some tongue-in-cheek responses.

• I switched to Google's Pixel phone and survived

  Google tried to simplify the process of moving to a Pixel from the iPhone. Here's how that shook out for one Apple die-hard.

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  Case Study | Partner initiative boosts reseller into Google’s top 10 results

  If you believe your website is not serving your needs as well as it could be but don’t know where to begin correcting the issues, SAP has provided a case study that delves into Synchrony’s story and how NEXTGEN’s agency Bang was able to reinvent the company’s digital presence.