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How vernacular platform Dailyhunt plans to take on Facebook in Bharat
The vernacular platform's parent VerSe has become a unicorn after over $100 mn funding from Google, Microsoft and others
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Indian TikTok clone gets Google, Microsoft backing in $100 mn fund raise
This comes months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country
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Dailyhunt parent VerSe becomes unicorn after funding from Google, Microsoft
The new funding comes at a time when VerSe Innovation is expanding its family of apps through its leading short video platform Josh, which is available in 12 local languages
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Google, Microsoft back Facebook lawsuit against NSO group over surveillance
WhatsApp accused the spyware maker of using a since-closed vulnerability in the messaging service to install spyware on the phones of at least 1,400 users
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Microsoft, Google, Dell join FB in legal battle against hacking company NSO
Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing a brief that warned that the Israeli firm's tools were "powerful, and dangerous"
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Google partners with Sheroes to support 500 rural women entrepreneurs
Last year, the tech major had started a small pilot for an accelerator programme for 10 women entrepreneurs in rural India across its Internet Saathi network
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Being part of Amazon is Prime Video's biggest strength, and challenge
From convincing filmmakers to do shows for online, to having a slate with some of the best films and shows, Amazon Prime Video has come a long way since it came to India four years ago
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Big Tech's big worries: Why are govts everywhere out to de-fang FAANG?
So far, there seems to be limited debate about their activities in India, where virtually all FAANG companies have teamed up in different ways with India's most powerful businessman, writes T N Ninan
Google offers free weekly coronavirus tests to 90,000 US employees
Google is offering free weekly Covid-19 tests to 90,000 employees in the US
Google blames Gmail, YouTube outage on error in user indentification system
On Tuesday, Google's Gmail service had another disruption. The company attributed this to an issue with data migration
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Google to shut down its light-weight IoT version of android early next year
Google has announced that Android Things will shut down early next year.
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Vistara allows passengers to book their tickets directly on Google
Passengers can now directly search and book tickets on its flights using Google
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Google says Australian law on paying for news is unworkable and biased
A Google executive said on Friday that a proposed Australian law to make digital platforms pay for news was unworkable and its proposed arbitration model was biased toward media businesses.
Google hit with third lawsuit as US states sue over search dominance
The complaint filed on Thursday focuses on Google's search business and search advertising, as well as what they said was an effort by Google to use special agreements to also dominate newer techs
Texas suing Google over alleged anti-competitive ad tech practices
In a tweet on Wednesday, Texas Attorney General said his suit centres on the lucrative market for digital ads, where Google obtains most of its revenue
Google acquires Neverware, a firm that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
Google has acquired Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks, for an undisclosed sum.
Google secretly gave Facebook perks, data in ad deal: US states
By Paresh Dave and Katie Paul
Facebook, Google entered illegal deals to undermine competition: US lawsuit
Facebook and Google used a series of deals to consolidate their market power illegally, Texas and nine other states alleged in a lawsuit against Google
Best of BS Opinion: Vivad Se Vishwas scheme, Das' 2 years as RBI guv & more
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
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Google crash: What are the alternatives for users in case of future outage
Google serves 3.5 billion users, which is approximately half the world population
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