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• Stealthy Trojan that roots Android devices makes its way on app stores

  The criminals behind the Trojan have placed fully functional utilities that carry malicious code on the Google Play store in a way that evades detection.

• Amazon, Microsoft and Google sit pretty as global cloud market grows by 37%

  Amazon, Microsoft and Google are still sitting head and shoulders above their cloud infrastructure competitors as the global market booms to US$45 billion as of Q3.

• Google unveils developer preview of Android 12L

  Due in early-2022, Android 12L optimises the Android system UI for large screens in preparation for the next wave of tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks.

• As Google moves to reshape Workspace, barriers to business adoption remain

  Google's Workspace suite continues to evolve, but faces tough competition from Microsoft in the productivity and collaboration software market.

• Google rolls out new Workspace app integrations, security features

  Google’s Chat collaboration app now integrates with Atlassian’s Jira, while no-code platform AppSheet can be accessed directly from Gmail.

• 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.