Google's Week: Pressuring a president, Glass return rumours, and 'Brillo' IoT push

Roland Moore-Colyer
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Firm also worked with Twitter to allow tweets to be displayed in search results

This week saw Google joining Apple and others to urge president Obama to let firms encrypt data or face economic disaster. The company also cut its cloud prices to keep competitive with Amazon a...

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