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Leaving behind mixed legacy, Sandberg quits Facebook at a perilous moment
She was pivotal in helping the company reach an unparalleled scale of more than two billion active users after Zuckerberg poached her from Google in 2008
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Alleged prototype of Google Pixel 7 prototype hits eBay ahead of its launch
An alleged prototype of Google's upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has been offered on eBay, giving the audience a sneak peek at the device months before its official release.
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Google backs India's ShareChat in $300 mn funding round at $5 bn valuation
ShareChat counts Twitter and Snap as investors and if the bid by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy Twitter goes through, Musk will have potentially a stake of between 6% and 8% in ShareChat
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Mohalla Tech's valuation may cross $5 billion after raising $300 million
The parent company behind short-video platform Moj and regional social network ShareChat, is in the process of raising about $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's Google and Singapore's Te
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Google Assistant develops personalised speech recognition feature
According to 9to5Google, the tool will help Google Assistant get "better at recognising your frequent words and names"
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Big firms versus intra-India variation
Each firm needs to choose how to respond to the enormous variation of locale within India
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Tech giants Apple, Google face scrutiny over collecting abortion data
Many apps in both Apple's and Google's respective stores routinely collect data, then sell it to brokers, the senators said
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Google likely working on two built-in snores, cough detection features
Google is working on two built-in snores and cough detection features that will let it detect if users snore or cough in their sleep
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Google in talks to join India's open e-commerce network ONDC: Reports
The ONDC programme aims to join 30 million sellers and 10 million merchants online, and cover at least 100 cities and towns by August
Britain's regulator launches second probe into Google's ad practices
The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) latest probe follows its investigation into Google and Facebook owner-Meta's "Jedi Blue" agreement earlier this year
Google takes yet another crack at e-commerce with renewed strategy
Raghavan is the first Google executive to oversee the technical operations behind both search and the ads division since Sundar Pichai did in 2014, shortly before he became CEO
Google Photos rolls out new filters to show skin in natural shade
At Google I/O, the company released the Monk Skin Tone Scale, an open-source library to help make machine learning of images more inclusive by better interpreting tones and shades
US bill could see Google, FB spinning off ad biz, may have India impact too
The bill would effectively put an end a company's ability to act as a broker for a buyer or seller of ad space while simultaneously owning the exchange on which the ad space is traded
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A new bill introduced in the US Senate aims to break up Google's ad biz
If the introduced Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act passed, the legislation would force Sundar Pichai-led Google to divest its digital ads business within a year
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Google, Match Group reach temporary agreement on in-app payments
Match Group had filed a complaint against Google, alleging the company "illegally monopolised the market for distributing apps" by requiring app developers to use Google's billing system
Google 'private browsing' mode not really private, says Texas lawsuit
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's filing adds Google's Incognito mode to the lawsuit filed in January
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Tinder-owner Match says Google to allow alternate payment systems for now
Match Inc mentioned that Google needs to allow alternative payment systems for Tinder giving users multiple payment choices to choose from
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Standing Committee on Finance to discuss big tech firms' practices Thursday
The panel, headed by former minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha, will also hear the views of the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on the subject
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Google's Russian subsidiary to file for bankruptcy after bank a/c seized
Google says its Russian subsidiary is planning to file for bankruptcy because it can't pay staff and suppliers.
Google faces class-action lawsuit for using NHS data of 1.6 mn people in UK
Google is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly using confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 mn individuals for its AI division called DeepMind.
