A HIGH-profile Google event on Tuesday is widely expected to show a new emphasis on hardware, challenging rivals Apple and Amazon, and launching a new strategy for the online giant.While the company has offered no official preview, it is expected to unveil a new line of Google-branded smartphones, a tablet and a home virtual assistant. Analysts expect that the internet titan will expand on a vision laid out by chief Sundar Pichai at its developers conference early in 2016.The strategy would seek to take Google’s strength in software and merge that with its devices, as Apple, Amazon and smartphone leader Samsung all work to get a tighter grip on consumers.Google fired off a Twitter message with hashtag #madebygoogle and a video of what appeared to be a long rectangular search term box morphing into a silhouette of a smartphone."They did call it out as a smartphone event," Gartner analyst Brian Blau says. "It is an opportunity for Google to show off its latest devices." Industry track...
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