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Budget 2019: Slew of measures to give push to digital payments adoption
Govt has proposed no charge or merchant discount rate for companies with over Rs 50 cr turnover accepting payments digitally
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Google reaches out to small and medium businesses with Google Pay platform
The company is rapidly scaling up their outreach among small businesses, with almost two out of three transactions coming in from non-metro locations
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp calls for Google breakup in Australia
In a petition to Australian regulators, News Corp's local subsidiary complained that 'Google enjoys overwhelming market power in both online search and ad tech services.'
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France uses strict EU privacy law first time, fines Google 50 mn euros
Google allegedly made it too difficult for users to understand and manage preferences on how their personal information is used.
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Salinger: The one-trick pony sensation
The more Salinger tried to hide, the more insistent America became
Google wins $1.3 bn tax bill case as French court strike down govt demands
The Paris administrative court ruled that Google Ireland Limited was not subject to corporate and value-added taxes for the period 2005-2010
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Google's marketing of children's apps misleads parents, consumer groups say
The groups also said some apps appeared to violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law that prohibits sites and apps from collecting personal information from children
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Google to invest $1 bn to build new offices in New York; hire 7,000 workers
The announcement comes weeks after both Amazon and Apple made known their individual expansion projects in the Big Apple
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After Amazon, Google to establish campus in New York at $1 bn investment
Earlier in March, Google had announced a $2.4 billion purchase of the Manhattan Chelsea Market
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Chase for talent pushes Apple, Google and Amazon far beyond west coast
Many of the companies are trying to cozy up to top engineering schools in cities like Pittsburgh
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Google readies plan to take on rivals Amazon, Flipkart in Indian market
This experience is available across several Google products: The Shopping Homepage, the Shopping tab on Google Search and Google Lens
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Google's Sundar Pichai faces privacy and bias questions in Congress
While Google had been under scrutiny before, particularly in Europe, where regulators have fined it, it had not had to address such an array of issues in one go and in such an open forum
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From World Cup to Kate Spade: What we searched the most on Google in 2018
The list of top trending searches on Google globally included US actress Meghan Markle, who married British Prince Harry, and a "Black Panther" film that debuted this year
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Sundar Pichai faces US House grilling on Google Plus breach, China
Sundar Pichai's appearance before the Judiciary Committee comes after he angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments
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Google acquires Sigmoid Labs, maker of popular 'Where is my train' app
This is the second acquisition Google is making to boost its NBU initiative, having acquired four-month-old Halli Labs
Google employees write to Pichai demanding equal treatment for contractors
Last month, Alphabet Inc. overhauled the way it handles allegations of sexual harassment and assault, but the updated policies largely left out temporary, vendor and contract workers
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Google is considering shut down of messaging app Hangouts in 2020: Report
The company also shut down Google+ because of lackluster performance
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Google to scrutinise political ads before EU elections in May 2019
In May 2019, up to 350 million voters across the EU will take to the Parliamentary polls to elect 705 Members of European Parliament (MEPs)
Food searches in Google vary from state to state in India, shows data
In terms of categories of what consumers are looking for, Google gets over 2.3 billion searches per annum on food in which the top three include desserts, fruits and vegetables
Data protection advocates cry foul as Google takes over health records
While Google says it will continue to ring-fence the patient data, critics say the potential for abuse is significant
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