Google's new digital assistant
While Google continues to make its digital assistant Google Now better and more feature-rich, the Mountain View-based company has reportedly has failed to keep the team that made it intact. A new report claims to shed light on the sudden departure of several Now team members after the then-head of Google core services Sundar Pichai refused to provide it the importance it deserved, and did what made more financial sense for Google in lieu of what the team wanted. Several employees that worked on Google Now left right before Google's I/O developer conference, Re/code reported citing multiple people familiar with the matter. Google announced Now on Tap, one of the headline features of Android 6.0 Marshmallow at the event. The team members left after a long struggle to convince Pichai, now-CEO of Google, to not merge them with Search. Google Now was launched at I/O 2012 as a feature in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The product, Re/code reported...