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  Google's latest moonshot: Extending human life

  While Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are trying to return humans to the moon, Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google’s co-founders - take it more metaphorically. They have ploughed Google’s billions into a semi-secret division of Google - X. Their moonshot factory. X is working right on the cutting edge of technology - self-driving cars, internet balloons and delivery drones. But their latest focus is on one of the world’s most intractable problems - healthcare.

  5 July

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  How a Google Employee Fell for the Eliza Effect

  One of the biggest stories in the tech world last week focused on Google placing an employee on leave after he came out and said Google’s AI had become sentient. The employee, Blake Lemoine, went public with these concerns and shared text conversations he had with one of Google’s AI language models, LaMDA (Language Models for Dialogue Applications).

  29th Jun, 2022

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  Australia's first Google & Spotify employee on investing in tech | Kate Vale

  Ever wish you could ask the leaders of the world’s largest tech companies about what to invest in? From Australia's first employee and Managing Director at Google, to Spotify, to her own venture capital fund, Kate knows a thing or two about what makes a tech company successful! On today’s episode, we ask Kate all about her career, and what she believes are the greatest investing opportunities in consumer technology today.

  21 June

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  7 Tech Companies - Latest earnings releases review

  In this article Loftus Peak provide a snapshot of 7 companies latest earnings releases, highlighting how they are benefiting from key disruptive trends.

  31st May, 2022

  Source: Loftus Peak

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  Sea Change: Alphabet and Meta's new undersea cables

  The latest efforts by these two companies is laying undersea cables to better connect the continent of Africa. With 1.4 billion people, Africa is the least connected continent and these undersea cables are expected to change this. Research commissioned by Google suggest that in Nigeria, median downloads speeds will improve 6x, data prices will fall 21%, add $10 billion to GDP and create 1.6 million new jobs. After Nigeria, Google’s cable will have two more landing spots - Namibia and South Africa - before connecting back to Europe in Portugal.

  23rd May, 2022

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  Secrets of Googlenomics: Data-fuelled recipe brews profitability

  This article is a fascinating look at the economic theory and algorithms that sit behind Google’s incredible advertising business. With a 29% share in the market for digital advertising today, it can often feel like Google’s success was preordained. But this article details many of the hard decisions and big leaps that Google’s early team had to take to get there.

  4th May, 2022

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  Need to Know | 22 stocks for 2022!

  It’s a brand new year, so it’s time for a slightly different format. In this Need to Know episode, Felicity and Candice open the listener mailbag, and answer all the questions you’ve been asking them over the summer break. Then it’s time to get out a notebook, as they run through 22 international stocks for 2022 that they believe have good growth prospects. You’ll have to listen to the episode to hear all 22 though!

  20 January

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  Google Search's Next Phase: Context is King

  Google’s Senior VP in charge of Search likes to say that “search is not a solved problem”. There’s no doubt that Google moved the world a lot closer to solving that problem by indexing the world’s information and making it searchable.

  6th Oct, 2021

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  Carbon capture, Google & Facebooks ad duopoly and where are Bryce and Alec investing?

  Today Bryce and Alec take another look at what's happening at Woolies, Facebook and Google breaking up the ad duopoly, and the World’s biggest plant to pull CO2 from the air.

  4 October

• Watchlist Wednesday | Berkshire Hathaway, Alphabet Inc & Magellan Financial Group | w/ Rob Shears

  Episode #99 of Equity Mates on AusBiz TV

  15 Aug, 2021

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  The good, the bad and the huge dividends | Reporting Season | Everything you need to know

  Episode #95 of Equity Mates on AusBiz TV

  11 Aug, 2021