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Amazon, Microsoft, Google grab 63% of $42 bn Cloud infra market
The enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $42 bn in Q2, increased by $2.7 bn from the previous quarter and up 39 per cent from the Q2 of 2020, according to a new report
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Anti-vaccine app squares off with Google, Apple over misinformation
Unjected bills itself as a community for 'like-minded people that support medical autonomy and free speech.'
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Microsoft faces subpoena in Google's antitrust case in United States
Google is also facing a new multi-state antitrust lawsuit in the US that accuses the tech giant of abusing its market power to stifle competitors.
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Google files second transparency report in accordance with new IT Rules
Removes over 150,000 pieces of content based on complaints received in May and June, over 98% of which were related to copyright
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IT rules: Google purged over 1.1 million harmful content in India
Google removed 634,357 pieces of harmful content for May and 526,866 for June 2021 via its automated detection processes.
Google delays return to office until mid-October, mandates vaccines
Google is postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone to be vaccinated
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Google Search, YouTube sales soar to record high in Covid-19 pandemic
Riding on Search and YouTube advertising growth amid the pandemic, Google has posted a record $61.88 billion in revenue for its June quarter
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Apple and Google are winning big, but one company is about to pull ahead
No two tech giants are the same, and it comes down to their business models.
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Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet report combined profits of more than $50 billion
Three tech companies Apple, Microsoft and Google's parent Alphabet reported combined profits of more than $50 billion in the April-June quarter
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Google parent Alphabet reaches record quarterly revenue, profit in ad boom
Alphabet said revenue from Google advertising rose nearly 70% to $50.44 billion
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Delta variant forces Silicon Valley giants to rethink office-return plans
Some companies said the recent spike in cases had not yet affected their return-to-office planning. Facebook still intends to reopen at 50 percent capacity by early September
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Verizon to make Google's Messages default app on Android devices from 2022
With that move, Verizon would join peers AT&T Inc and T-Mobile US Inc in propping up competition to Apple Inc's iMessage service.
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Google builds on India bet, set to buy 2-year-old start-up simsim
The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. simsim was founded in June 2019.
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Google backs Indian voice assistant as a service startup Slang Labs
Slang Labs raised funding from the Google Assistant Investments program. It would use the funding to grow its Voice Assistant as a Service business
Google expands India cloud services with new infrastructure in Delhi-NCR
Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with the second cluster of data centers in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market
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Delhi govt collaborates with Google to provide real-time bus tracking
Delhi government has collaborated with Google to launch a system to enable commuters to track bus locations, arrival and departure times, and routes on a real-time basis on their smartphones
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Microsoft on 'Right Side' of antitrust battle, says CEO Satya Nadella
Nadella said he is concerned about the wave of hacks in the past few months
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Google quietly ends unlimited group video calling for free accounts on Meet
Google has quietly ended unlimited group video calls facility for free accounts on its video calling app Meet, and the users will now get only an hour time for group calls.
Google fined $593 mn by French antitrust agency over news content issue
Google ignored a 2020 decision to negotiate in good faith for displaying snippets of articles on its Google News service
Now sync content across all devices with Google Drive for desktop
Google is rolling out a slew of new features for Drive for desktop (Windows, macOS), a new unified tool that will let users easily sync their content across all devices and the cloud
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