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Tech giant Google to promote fewer employees to senior roles in 2023
The L6 distinction refers to the first layer of the workforce which is considered senior and normally consists of people with roughly ten years of experience
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VPN access expanding to Google One members, to be available in 22 nations
Tech giant Google has announced that it is expanding its VPN access to all Google One members, including members with the Basic plan that starts at $1.99 per month
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Competition Commission of India squeezed by staff vacancies and workload
The Competition Commission of India, which has imposed million dollar penalties on Alphabet Inc.'s Google to Amazon.com Inc., is functioning with just two members
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Google, Meta file lawsuit against South Korean data watchdog's ruling
Google and Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against a ruling by the South Korean data protection watchdog to penalise the global tech giants for illegally collecting personal data here
Streaming platform YouTube Music gives update on 'Listening Room' programme
Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music has provided an update on its 'Listening Room' programme, for which the company opened and then quickly closed applications in January.
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Google rolls out PDF drawing, highlighting tools on cloud service Drive
Google has rolled out new annotation tools on its cloud service Drive on Android, which will give users a quick way to draw on and highlight PDFs
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Google Keep's new feature lets users pin notes to home screen on Android
Tech giant Google has announced that it is rolling out a new feature on its note-taking service 'Google Keep' that will allow users to "pin" a note or list to their home screen on Android devices
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Google purges over 7,500 YouTube channels linked to malicious operations
Google took down more than 7,500 YouTube channels in Q1 2023 as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations, and terminated 6,285 YouTube channels
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Google-owned YouTube disables posts, new comments on English Help forum
Meanwhile, YouTube Music will soon introduce podcasts to the application for users in the US
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Unicorn proptech start-up NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google for expansion
NoBroker platform helps in renting, buying, selling, home services, financial services to society management services through NoBrokerHood
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Prop-tech startup NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google in extended Series E
With this, Google joins existing investors General Atlantic, Tiger Global and Moore Strategic Ventures; tech giant will also collaborate with NoBroker to enhance overall user experience
Google Chrome's latest update extends MacBook battery life: Report
Meanwhile, last month, the tech giant had rolled out the Memory and Energy Saver modes for Chrome on Mac, Windows, Linux as well as Chromebooks
Google-backed startup unveils multilingual voice search technology
Slang Labs was co-founded in 2017 by founders who had earlier co-founded Little Eye Labs, the first and only Indian company to be acquired by Meta (Facebook)
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Google's client-side encryption now available to users globally for Gmail
Google has announced that client-side encryption mode is now generally available for Gmail globally to customers with Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus
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Google's non-compliance will hit us hard, lament leading Indian startups
Leading startups gathered under one roof to brainstorm on implications of Google's User Choice Billing system, saying Google's non-compliance with CCI orders will only harm the startup ecosystem
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Top headlines: Apple creates new jobs, India's derivate bond trade at risk
Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour
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Web platforms and news generators' relation needs review
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Google services like Gmail, Workspace suffers brief outage globally
Around 60 per cent people on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, reported problems with Google website while 35 per cent had issues with login
Centre invites Big Tech, start-ups to discuss digital competition law
Big Tech companies have been asked to come separately on March 11 to make suggestions on the digital competition law
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Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai
"Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai
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