Google Has Bought a chunk of HTC’s Smartphone Division

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Google has announced the completion of its $1.1 billion deal to buy a large slice of HTC’s hardware business.
The acquisition was announced

Google’s Alphabet Launches a Cybersecurity Firm called 'Chronicle'

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Alphabet, the parent company of Google, today announced

the launch of Chronicle, a new cybersecurity company that aims to give companies

a better chance at detecting threats by analyzing and storing security

related data. Chronicle will now be a standalone company under the Alphabet umbrella, just like Google. Stephen Gillett has been named as the CEO. He joined Google Ventures and was previously the COO of Symantec.

Stephen Gillett explains “we want to 10x the speed and impact of security teams’ work by making it much easier, faster and more cost-effective for them to capture and analyze security signals that have previously been too difficult and expensive to find.” “We are building our intelligence and analytics platform to solve this problem.”

Source: Technology Informer