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• Google taps NZ partner Fronde to host Chrome experience centre

  Google and New Zealand partner Fronde teamed to launch a New Zealand Chrome experience lab in Fronde's Auckland office yesterday.

• Google accused of firing workers to stifle unionism

  Alphabet's Google has been accused of unlawfully firing four employees to allegedly deter workers from engaging in union activities.

• Google and YouTube join NZ government to host 'Christchurch Call' workshop

  ​Governments and technology companies are holding a two-day workshop in Wellington to test the Christchurch Call "shared crisis response protocol".

• Why Salesforce is splitting itself between major public cloud vendors

  Hint: it's not just about tapping into a market primed for growth or global expansion.

• Google adds AI smarts to G Suite with Google Assistant and Docs updates

  Google’s AI assistant can now be accessed in beta, while Smart Compose has been extended to Google Docs as well as 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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  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.