Jon Victor is a Fintech, Alphabet, and Google reporter for The Information, with a focus on local news in Llanelli. His articles cover a range of topics including technology, business, lifestyle, and future trends. Jon's work has also been featured in Knowledia, showcasing his expertise in the field of reporting on Alphabet and Google.
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Jon Victor's coverage focuses on house & home, business & industry, content & publishing, and sales & marketing. His articles are predominantly "How To Guides," indicating a preference for practical advice and actionable tips rather than theoretical or abstract commentary.
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By: Jon Victor
Google in recent days laid off employees working on trust and safety, a spokesperson confirmed, as the company grapples with backlash to politically biased results generated by its Gemini chatbot. Bloomberg earlier reported on the layoffs, adding that they affected fewer than 10 people out of a team of 250.In a memo to staff earlier this week, CEO Sundar Pichai promised “structural
By: Kaya Yurieff, Jon Victor
ByteDance revenue in the third quarter of 2023 rose roughly 43% to $30.9 billion, indicating that the TikTok parent company accelerated advertising and ecommerce sales slightly from the first half. It also demonstrated that ByteDance is continuing to grow at nearly twice the growth rate of Facebook-owner Meta Platforms. For the first nine months of the year, ByteDance revenue rose 40% to $84.4 billion, it disclosed in private documents viewed by The Information.
By: Aaron Holmes, Stephanie Palazzolo, Jon Victor
Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence–powered search engine, has become a Silicon Valley startup darling for taking on Google with conversational answers rather than a list of web links. Tech CEOs such as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Dell’s Michael Dell have sung the praises of the startup, and it has raised more than $100 million in venture capital from Nvidia and others.
By: Jon Victor
Alphabet has spoken with bankers at Morgan Stanley in recent days about making an offer to buy HubSpot, a maker of software for managing sales, marketing and customer service, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Hubspot’s market capitalization is about $33 billion and its shares rose 6% following the report.An offer to buy HubSpot would buck the trend of technology
DeepMind’s visionary founder has everything an AI leader could need, except the one thing he wants most: control.
By: Jon Victor
As tiny chips and artificial intelligence algorithms become more powerful, a possible future where people control computers just by thinking has become more realistic, according to Brian Otis, the cofounder and former chief technology officer of Alphabet’s Verily life-sciences unit. Otis in ...
Google on Tuesday announced a new app, Google Vids, that will allow cloud customers to build videos for work-related presentations. The app, which will be part of its Workspace software offering, will let customers automatically piece together user images, stock footage and other visuals. Google also unveiled a tool, called “text-to-live images,” that produces clips up to several seconds long
Google said Thursday that it would combine its Pixel phone group with the team that develops the Android operating system, which powers the Pixel as well as phones made by Samsung by hundreds of other device makers. The unexpected move, announced in a companywide memo from CEO Sundar Pichai, will bring together two major business units as Google looks to boost sales of its phone as Apple’s
Google on Monday announced new features for its Performance Max ad-buying tool, which uses artificial intelligence to optimize ad campaigns. One upgrade, “Final URL expansion,” lets advertisers automatically adjust an ad’s link based on a user’s search intent—for example, to surface a more relevant brand on a store website. Another feature allows advertisers to target their campaigns to retain
Google's new office at St. John's Terminal in New York City. Photo via AP.
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