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The inquiry concerns Google's massive Ad Exchange platform, which operates real-time online auctions in which highly-sensitive information about users gleaned from their browsing history is traded by companies which use it to create behavioral profiles for ad targeting.
New docs reveal ultra-creepy Google ad tracking
At issue is how Google retains personal data, its practices regarding transparency and minimization of data collected, and how that data is processed. Ad Exchange auctions can involve hundreds of third parties haggling over users' private data, attaching behavioral "tags" to their traffic without their knowledge – an operation which seems to run afoul of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirement that companies obtain explicit consent before dealing in sensitive information.
The DPC could fine Google up to 4 percent of its global revenues
GOOGL employees can no longer afford to pay rent in San Francisco. At a staff meeting earlier this year, one Google worker asked why Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai was paid hundreds of millions of dollars, while some employees struggle to afford to live in the area. Pichai said it has little control over the high cost of living, people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg at the time.
The median rent in Mountain View almost doubled since late 2010 to $4,151 a month. That’s nearly triple the national average, according to Trulia. The median home value is $1.8 million, up from $750,000 ten years ago, according to Zillow.
“We have rising rents. We have gentrification. We have people being displaced,” said Jennifer Loving, head of Destination: Home, a group that’s trying to reduce homelessness in Santa Clara County, home to Google and Mountain View. “All of that together is creating an untenable situation for thousands and thousands of families and individuals including lower paid Google employees who are trying to live and work here.”
Alphabet $GOOGL Slides After Huawei Fallout, Here's A Level Everyone Should Know
This morning, the big news was that many leading tech companies would no longer support the Chinese mobile supplier, Huawei Technologies. Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) announced that they are suspending business with Huawei, they will no longer support its Android phone platform. This news has sent GOOGL stock lower by $22.64 (-1.90%) to $1145.98 a share. It should be noted that GOOGL stock has been weak since April 30, 2019 after they reported disappointing earnings. Recently, GOOGL shares were defended on May 15, 2019 at $1121.40 a share. In that trading session the shares surged higher by nearly $57.00, but have been pulling back since that day. Should the recent low in GOOGL ($1121.40) fail to hold as support it would send a major sell signal to the stock. The next major support level will be around the $1045.00 area for the stock. As of now, the stock is still holding firmly above that key level, but it is worth keeping on the radar.
Nicholas Santiago
InTheMoneyStocks
Multi-Factor Buy Level On Alphabet $GOOGL
Shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) took a beating today after reporting poor financial results. The stock is trading lower by over 8%, just under $1,190.00. The top pro traders around the world are eyeing one major level for a buy. The buy trigger is $1,135.00 and is based on a pierce of the daily 200 moving average + a major former pivot high from 2018 and the 50% Fibonacci retrace from the low in December 2018 to the recent all-time high yesterday. These levels all coincide, giving investors a beautiful buying opportunity. Be patient, it will easily get there in the next few weeks.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
Alphabet $GOOGL Plunges After Earnings And It Still Has Lower To Go
This morning, leading tech giant, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL), is plunging lower after reporting earnings. Obviously, the street did not like the earnings report from the company. Alphabet reported a sharp decline in ad revenue. The company also said changes to the YouTube algorithm caused lower engagement and ad revenue growth on the site. Today, the shares are trading lower by nearly 8.0% to $1193.76 a share. Traders and investors should note that GOOGL stock is now trading down to its important 50-day moving average. A weekly close below this key support level will likely cause the shares to decline further. At this time, the daily chart is still showing very good short term support around the $1174.00 level. This is a key support area and where the stock was defended on March 28, 2019. As always, the pattern over the next few weeks will be important.
Nick Santiago
InTheMoneyStocks
From our perspective the GOOGL chart has become more and more positive over the past month and is set up perfectly going into earnings . Our only apprehension is the possibility that Google has a recent history of selling off post earnings seemingly regardless of results. Speculation is rife that Googl will finally start discussing revenue numbers from YOUTUBE premium, if so this could explode higher. We are long and will continue to be so unless earnings are a great disappointment. Regulatory pressure is our only concern for GOOGLE in the future, which is already evident in Europe.
Comment: Unfortunately history has once again repeated itself. $1190 - $1180 is the key support level.
Google Wing well ahead of Amazon Prime Air
https://www.playstocks.net/images/sampledata/Member2019/Apr1-AMZN-FLT.pdf
Google enters $254b gaming sector with new streaming service
https://www.afr.com/technology/gaming/google-enters-254b-gaming-sector-with-new-streaming-service-20190320-p515o9
cheapest gaming stock: GMER
here is dd
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=147512995
its not the dems that are buying googl--you can take that to the bank
investors afraid of dems in control.....
So is this the beginning of the recession where we see 50% wiped out of recent highs or has it finally bottomed & will test $1500 next year?
Jack Poulson resigned from Google in August after The Intercept reported that a group of the internet giant’s staffers was secretly working on a search engine for China that would remove content about subjects such as human rights, democracy, peaceful protest, and religion. “I view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the Chinese market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe,” Poulson told his bosses.
Now, Poulson has sent a letter to members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ahead of a hearing on Wednesday at which Keith Enright, Google’s chief privacy officer, is scheduled to appear. Despite a major internal and external backlash over a period of almost two months, Google has so far refused to publicly address questions about its China censorship plan, code-named Dragonfly. The appearance of Enright on Capitol Hill is likely to be the first time a representative of the company is forced to provide answers about the project.
In his letter to the senators, Poulson said that there has been “a pattern of unethical and unaccountable decision making from company leadership” at Google. He called on the lawmakers to pressure Enright to respond to concerns raised by 14 leading human rights groups, who said in late August that Dragonfly could result in Google “directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations.”
Poulson also shared information about Dragonfly with the senators. He told the lawmakers that in the process of developing the Chinese search platform, there was “a catastrophic failure of the internal privacy review process, which one of the reviewers characterized as [having been] actively subverted.”
The “catastrophic failure” Poulson mentioned relates to an internal dispute between Google employees who work on privacy issues and engineers who developed the censored search system, sources said. The privacy reviewers approved aspects of the code for Dragonfly after they were told it did not involve user data. After The Intercept exposed the project in early August, the privacy reviewers took another look at the code and felt that their colleagues working on Dragonfly had seriously and purposely misled them. The system did involve user data and had been designed to link users’ search queries to a personal phone number, track users’ movements, IP addresses, and information about the devices they use and the links they clicked on.
Poulson told the senators that he could “directly verify” that a prototype of Dragonfly would allow a Chinese partner company to “search for a given user’s search queries based on their phone number.” He added that the censorship blacklist developed for the system contained the English term “human rights,” the Mandarin terms for “student protest” and “Nobel prize,” and “very large numbers of phrases involving ‘Xi Jinping’ and other members” of China’s ruling Communist Party regime.
Poulson said that the Dragonfly system contained code to “ensure only Chinese government-approved air quality data would be returned in response to Chinese users’ search.” The country’s authorities have a history of manipulating pollution data, raising the possibility that Google would provide Chinese citizens with false information to downplay the amount of toxins in the air.
“Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision-making across the tech industry,” Poulson told the senators. “It has been made clear, both by word and by action, that the leadership at Google will be clamping down on the types of internal investigation that were necessary to bring Project Dragonfly to light. I would hope that the committee would help protect the environment needed for future whistleblowers by taking steps to guarantee ethical transparency and oversight across Silicon Valley.”
“Dragonfly is part of a broad pattern of unaccountable decision-making.”
Poulson, who was previously an assistant professor at Stanford University’s department of mathematics, worked in Google’s research and machine intelligence division as a senior research scientist. He did not work on the China search engine, but one of his responsibilities involved “international query analysis,” improving Google’s search accuracy across a wide variety of languages, and his output could have been integrated into Dragonfly without his knowledge. He joined Google in May 2016 and worked out of the company’s Mountain View headquarters for a year before relocating to offices in Toronto.
Google launched a censored search engine in China in 2006, but stopped operating the service in 2010, citing concerns about Chinese government censorship and efforts to hack activists’ Gmail accounts. Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in 2010 that he saw “earmarks of totalitarianism” in China in relation to censorship and surveillance, which he said he found “personally quite troubling.”
Poulson told The Intercept in an interview earlier this month that he “very much agree[s] with the case Sergey made in 2010. That’s the company I joined, the one that was making that statement.” If Google was now reversing its anti-censorship position, he said, then he could no longer “be complicit as a shareholder and citizen of the company.”
I would say almost exactly right. $1070.
MY OWN OPINION I DO NOT HOLD SHARES DO YOUR OWN DD!!
Major Buy Level On Alphabet Inc $GOOGL Revealed
After major chart analysis on shares of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL), the top pro traders in the expect it to fall sharply to the $1100.00 level before finding major support for a swing trade buy. This level represents a 61.8% Fibonacci retrace of the March to July 2018 move as well as a cross of the daily 200 moving average.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
Indeed $GOOgL is golden
Best Risk vs. Reward Short Trade Setup On Alphabet $GOOGL
Shares of Alphabet (GOOGL) are surging again as best of breed technology stocks are the 'in' thing. Every investor wants some, no matter the price. I am sitting back, allowing the average investor to pile in until Alphabet hits $1,181.50. Why this level? It offers the best technical setup trade short, with the smallest risk to biggest reward. Let me explain... The $1,181.50 level is a major gap fill, unfilled at this point. In addition, it is within 1% of the all-time high which is also a double top. This gives added resistance and adds to the short trade chance of success. Now that we have a technical trade level, let's look at the risk versus reward. First, the reward would be a fall with days to $1,120, with a second target over the following month to $1,000. The risk to the trade is tiny as any confirmation above the all-time high of $1,198 would stop you out. So in reality, the reward is $61 - $180 while the risk is a tiny $16.50. That is the type of trade worth taking in my humble opinion.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
Any thoughts on $googl? Seems like good opportunity
BVTK partnership-Google-Strongly negotiating finalization of contract to combat cyber security.
Hey thanks- again, expect constant stories like this, and set-backs.
GOOGL just fine.....
DO YOUR OWN DD!!!!!
Noise- if there is a dip, i'll be buying GOOGL hand over fist. Thanks for the heads-up, these stories will appear frequently as we go.......
DO YOUR OWN DD!!!
60 min segment on Google
This is DAMAGING:(
http://ih.advfn.com/videos/stock-research/5-20-2018-google-antitrust-60-minutes_sEsLz8GIaU8
It will have periods below $1000. I will be adding at that point.
Probably the only "value" stock of its kind. Should be 1900+
My own opinion-do your DD
What are the chances this goes below 1000. I'd say pretty slim. We shall see.
Always wanted to buy Google and I just did. Will add even more if it decreases more.
Looking at some Friday lotto calls at 1135
Major Short Level About To Be Tagged On Alphabet Inc
Shares of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) have soared in the last seven trading days. After trading below $1,050 on March 2nd, Alphabet finds itself nearing $1,180. The $1,180 is a huge technical resistance level. It is a gap fill from earnings, and sure to be major resistance. This level is also very close to a major resistance double top/all-time high. Investors, including myself are looking to short Alphabet at gap fill $1,180.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
Here Is The Master Short Level On Alphabet Inc $GOOGL
Shares of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) are surging today as the market reversed early losses and spiked dramatically higher. Today is the first day since the massive collapse last week where investors are ignoring negatives and buying-the-dip. To give an example of this, look at yields on the 10 year bond. They are hitting 2.90% on the back of higher inflation data. This would have been a major negative last week but today, after a gap lower, investors are ignoring it and buying the market. This shows us a resurgence of the buy anything and everything mentality, a good sign for those wanting the markets to move higher so they can get off a good short. Alphabet Inc reported poor earnings results recently. This means that it will be a prime candidate for a short when the right price target is hit. that right price target is $1,182.00. This is a major gap fill and close to a major double top. If the price of Alphabet Inc can hit this level, it becomes a strong, high priority short trade. I will be laying in wait to take it myself.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
CRUSHING IT!! AS predicted... I LOVE my stock call, picks & puts!!
NEW HIGHS,...NEW HIGHS!!
$GOOGL
Did Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) Just Top? Watch This To See
Shares of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) surged to all-time highs in early trading today. However, by lunch-time, the search giant had faded, up less than a half-percent. The pull back created a bearish topping tail on the daily chart and may signal a near-term top for the stock. Investors need to put this on their watch list and follow it into the market close. Should Alphabet Inc close with a topping tail, it becomes a strong short and will likely pullback sharply. These technical chart signals are important, as they are the only thing that can give investors an edge on when a stock like Alphabet Inc is set to pull back.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
BOOM!! That CALL didn't take long!!
I LOVE my stock picks & calls!
$GOOGL
BOINGO Nice CALL Niko!
As soon as we get over this RE-TEST lower (& after eoy, with profit-taking that's TO BE EXPECTED), I'm venturing we'll break RIGHT UP & THROUGH
that new, recent $1,080.00 high!!
Loving my stock picks!!
2018 here we go...
$GOOGL
Multibillion dollar Google biotech will have antiaging treatments soon and no one will care about a tap on the hand over hearsay lawsuit lacking evidence that can be substantiated enough to show unlawful actions. Google has lawyers they know what they can and can't do. All market manipulation by lawyers.
Niantic nabs "HARRY POTTER"...Love it!!
Big HP fan...
With POKEMON GO! experience under their belts I think this acquisition becomes a movie & gaming tie-in, gains advertising leverage & is a REAL (not "augmented") GAME CHANGER!!
$GOOGL
Checkout This Trade Setup On $GOOGL...
Just a little over a week ago, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) reported solid earnings. The stock jumped sharply higher on those results, trading as high as $1,063.62 in early trading. However, Alphabet Inc quickly reversed, closing at around $1,031.00. The reversal put in a topping tail on the daily chart. In the days following that major up-move and reversal, the stock has inched higher. This inching higher, forms what is known in the technical world as a bearish, inside-bar pattern. Coupled with the topping tail on the daily stock chart, it is a strong sell signal. Ultimately, investors should be expecting a sell-off to take place, pushing Alphabet Inc to below $1,000.00 in the coming weeks. The gap fill from before earnings is my target at $990.00. In addition, what makes this a nice trade is that neatly defined stop. Any daily close above the topping tail high at $1,062.63, stops you out. This means the risk is about $17 while the reward is about $56. Solid risk/reward in my book.
Gareth Soloway
InTheMoneyStocks
Bad management fined billions by governments losing investors money in governments fines
Google Parent Alphabet's Profit Grows 33% -- Update
https://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=75952642
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