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• Multinational tech giants face big tax hit amid calls for global rules overhaul

  Governments around the world are set to get more power to tax big multinationals like Google, Apple and Facebook under a proposed overhaul of decades-old rules.

• Website that allowed Huawei phones to install Google apps taken down

  A China-based website that allowed for manual installation of Google's Android apps on Huawei's newly launched Mate 30 devices went offline on Wednesday after a security researcher highlighted the "backdoor" to sidestep a U.S. ban.

• Google offers incognito mode for Maps in privacy push

  ​Google is rolling out new privacy features to its Maps, YouTube and Voice Assistant services, with options including incognito mode and automatic data deletion, the company said on Wednesday.

• Apple issues statement in response to Google security vulnerabilities report

  Google’s report created a false impression among users that their devices were compromised, Apple says.

• 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.

• 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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  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.