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Google Search driving 4bn customer-business connections a month
Google has revealed that Search results that show local places and businesses now drive more than 4 billion connections between customers and businesses every month
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Google lets people share photos with Street View via smartphones
Users can collect own Street View imagery and put it in the right place on Google Maps.
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More than 40 states plan to file lawsuit against Facebook next week: Report
The complaint would be the second major lawsuit filed against a Big Tech company this year. The Justice Department sued Alphabet Inc's Google in October
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Google illegally monitored workers, fired them for organising: US regulator
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for trying to organise a union
Google offers people access to paywalled content in News Showcase
Google has announced to start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers, as part of $1 billion News Showcase initiative launched two months ago.
As world grapples with tech monopolies, can India's hard cap be a solution?
The country's unique approach is to decree limits on fintech competitors from the start
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Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as FB, Google
The new tax would come into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, and remain in place until a common approach is agreed upon
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After festive season boost, key economic indicators show declining signs
Railway freight was up last week after rail traffic resumed in the state of Punjab after a month-long shutdown due to the farmers' agitation against the new farm laws
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DeepMind's AlphaFold crosses threshold in solving protein structures
DeepMind Technologies Ltd.'s AlphaFold reached the threshold for "solving" the problem at the latest Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction competition
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United Kingdom to hit Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules
UK government on Friday said it will set up an antitrust unit to introduce and enforce a new code to govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook.
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Britain to curb Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules
Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising, accounting for around 80% of 14 billion pounds spent in 2019, Britain's competition regulator the CMA said
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Google India posts 35% jump in full-year revenue, profit climbs 24%
Total expenses rose 30.4 per cent in the same period
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Fee on money transfers for US, doesn't apply to India: Google Pay
Google Pay had 67 million users in India as of September 19
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400 new games set to arrive on Google Stadia game streaming service
Google has announced that around 400 new games are on the way for its Stadia Cloud game streaming service
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Foxconn plant championed by Trump lands Google server contract
Foxconn, known also as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is one of several Taiwanese firms exploring ways to expand in America and lessen a reliance on Chinese production bases.
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Google Stadia coming to Apple iPhone, iPad in 2021 through web app: Report
However, it will not be a standalone app, instead a web app that will run on any mobile browser including Apple's own Safari
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Characteristics of bubbles
There is no reason why the potential bubble in tech stocks will pop anytime soon
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UK's competition regulator looking at formal investigation into Google
The investigation relates to digital advertising on online platforms
Russia opens case against Google for failing to delete banned content
Roskomnadzor said Google was not removing up to 30% of what it called "dangerous content", some of which it said was extremist, pornographic and suicidal in nature
Don't blame us for a decline in revenue at news businesses: Google
News businesses are making less revenue because they began to face competition from websites that have taken classified advertising online, Google said
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