Waymo has applied to test cars without drivers on California roads, writes Carolyn Said in the San Francisco Chronicle. Here is the link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/amp/Exclusive-Waymo-appplies-for-no-driver-testing-12832425.php

Amazon is currently the second biggest company in the world when it comes to market capitalization, Romain Dillet of TechCrunch writes. Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/amazon-surpasses-alphabet-in-market-value/

Aplphabet's new company Chronicle wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity, writes Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica. Here is the link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/alphabets-chronicle-is-a-moonshot-company-for-cybersecurity/

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly acquired a U.K. startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers, Giles Turner of Bloomberg writes. Here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-11/google-makes-little-noise-buying-u-k-sound-tech-startup-redux