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REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Google executive Prabhakar Raghavan on Thursday detailed challenges the search and advertising giant faces from smaller rivals, describing efforts to avoid becoming "the next road kill." "I feel a keen sense not to become the next road kill," said Raghavan, a senior vice president at Google who reports to chief executive Sundar Pichai. Raghavan said Google had some 8,000 engineers and product managers working on search, with about 1,000 involved in search quality. Asked about the expression "Grandpa Google," Raghavan said "unfortunately, yes" he had heard it. "Grandpa Google will help with things like homework but when it comes to interesting things, they go elsewhere," he said.

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☆ Where Uber's climate and autonomous driving goals will meet in the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Tim Mullaney | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

"For most of our history, profitable wasn't the first thing that came up when you asked someone about Uber," Khosrowshahi said on Uber's second-quarter conference call Aug. 1. The $1 a ride alone can add up to $4,000 to a driver's annual revenue, the company says. All of them will compete for customers on Uber's platform much as hotels search for business on Expedia.com – a business once run by Khosrowshahi. Indeed, one threat to Uber's current status as a market darling is if AV makers, especially Tesla, decide to compete with Uber directly for riders, Zino said. Khosrowshahi told Sellers that 10-20% of Uber drivers may soon be robots, but said he still thinks more people will be driving for Uber than there are today.

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☆ Expedia Group beats Street estimates on record lodging bookings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Doyinsola Oladipo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - Expedia Group Inc (EXPE.O) on Thursday beat Wall street estimates for first-quarter revenue on record lodging bookings and increased international travel demand. "The first quarter saw strong travel demand driven by increasing international travel, major city travel, and the reopening in Asia," Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said in a statement. The Expedia.com and Hotel.com operator posted an adjusted first-quarter loss of 20 cents per share, missing analysts' expectations for a loss of 4 cent a share. The online booking company's revenue rose to $2.7 billion in the first quarter up 18% from a year ago, the highest first quarter revenue for the company, and beat analysts' average estimate of $2.6 billion. Reporting by Doyinsola Oladipo in New York Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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