Weekly Issue: 2023-46

When it comes to great Chromebooks, there are usually two schools of thought: build the best overall device regardless of price, and get the best bang for your buck.

Early Black Friday deals are here and one of them is for the very capable Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook Plus. Normally priced at $499, it’s now $379.

Spanner is a fully managed database service for both relational and non-relational workloads that offers strong consistency at global scale, high performance at virtually unlimited scale, and high availability with up to five 9s SLA.

As remote work remains the norm for many people, organizations continue to seek out solutions to protect corporate data regardless of where employees are located and which devices they use.

I often go on small little hunts through all of Google’s services looking for new and exciting features. One of my favorite apps in the company’s entire ecosystem is Google Play Books.

If you read that headline and thought to yourself – haven’t I recently heard about this already? – you are not alone. When I saw the headline from Bleeping Computer, I almost scrolled right by it in my Google Discover feed.

It’s been a bit of a dry spell for new, branded Chromebook Plus device deals.

Over the past four years, I’ve traveled the world meeting with current and potential Google Cloud customers and listening to their thoughts about the cloud and its future. It’s my team’s job to turn those thoughts into reality.