Google and Jio jointly develop affordable smartphone JioPhone Next
28 Jun 2021
JioPhone Next comes with breakthrough premium capabilities, including language and translation features, a great camera, and support for the latest Android and security updates that are unlikely for an affordable smartphone and will be available from 10 September 2021
Google backs India's IT rules as WhatsApp, Twitter fume at regulation
28 May 2021
In a virtual conference with select reporters from the Asia Pacific, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company respects the legislative processes, and in cases where it needs to push back, it does so
Google threatens to shut search engine in Australia over govt move to force it pay for local content
25 Jan 2021
Google launches `Google News Showcase’; to pay publishers for content
01 Oct 2020
Australia wants to force Google and Facebook to share advertising revenue with local media groups while European groups see Google’s News Showcase as another product to dictate terms and conditions
Indian tech firms join to fight Google’s app store monopoly: report
01 Oct 2020
Google has demanded that starting next year developers with their app on its Play Store must give the company 30 per cent share of all app-related payments
Google to end its free Wi-Fi programme
18 Feb 2020
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down; Pichai to head Google and Alphabet
04 Dec 2019
“There is no one that we have relied on more since Alphabet was founded, and no better person to lead Google and Alphabet into the future,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin stated in a letter they wrote about the transition at blog.google
Google pushes online gaming industry with its Stadia
26 Mar 2019
Instead of a console, Google’s Stadia would use a cloud platform to do all the processing online, with the devices requiring only a fast internet connection
European Commission hits Google with $1.7 bn antitrust fine
20 Mar 2019
The latest fine on Google, for allegedly forcing customers of its AdSense business to sign contracts barring rival search engines, takes total EU fine on Google over the last three years to $9.3 billion
US House grills Sundar Pichai on `idiot’-Trump link in Google search
13 Dec 2018
The questioning by the House Judiciary Committee came after Trump’s multiple tweets accusing Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles about him, implying political bias as well
Google India FY18 turnover up 29% at Rs9,338 cr
12 Oct 2018
Google Tez is now Google Pay, to offer instant bank loans
29 Aug 2018
The development puts Google in direct conflict with Paytm, which is currently India’s largest digital payments company with 150 million app downloads reported
US senators quiz Google about Chinese search engine plans
06 Aug 2018
Seeking details about a reported plan to develop a censored Chinese version of the Google search engine, a bipartisan group of six US Senators have said the unconfirmed project “risks making Google complicit in human rights abuses”
Google, FB, Microsoft, Twitter join hands for Data Transfer Project
21 Jul 2018
Google says the project will let users ‘transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it’, with Microsoft adding that ‘portability and interoperability are central to cloud innovation and competition
Google fined record $5bn in Europe over Android platform
18 Jul 2018
While there is no force on owners of Android smart phones or tablets to use the platform, it is not easy to download games or other apps – or services from Google’s competitors – offered by third-party developers without that
Google AI’s medical predictions prove more accurate than doctors’
19 Jun 2018
Google’s Medical Brain team is now training its artificial intelligence capabilities to predict the death risk among hospital patients — and its early results show it has slightly higher accuracy than a hospital’s own warning system
Google bets $550 million on Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com
18 Jun 2018
Google has been rapidly expanding its e-commerce business, partnering with Costco, Target, and Walmart and promoting products through the Google Assistant and Google Shopping
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