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Google to buy 6.6% stake in home security firm ADT for $450 million
ADT expects to offer certain Google devices to its customers beginning this year and to expand the integration in 2021
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Google to buy stake in ADT, partner with it for home security products
Google is pairing its Nest smart home technology with ADT and buying a stake in the home security company
Google adds icon in Maps to help people identify Black-owned businesses
The move, which comes amid a surge in online searches for Black-owned businesses, is part of the company's commitment to support underrepresented entrepreneurs
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Google integrates exposure notification tech into upcoming Android 11
Google is integrating its Exposure Notification System (ENS) into the upcoming Android 11 and people will be able to use Exposure Notification apps without turning on the device location setting.
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Aus plans to force FB, Google to pay for news; to address power imbalance
The draft code allows commercial news businesses to bargain - individually or collectively - with Google and Facebook, in order to be paid for news the tech giants publish on their services
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Rising SaaS adoption to ensure global sway of IT services firms
The final part of the series looks at how Indian firms compete with global peers
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Australia asks Facebook, Google to share revenue generated from news
The two companies will have to negotiate with traditional media on remuneration in good faith
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Tech giants defy economic downturns, report a combined profit of $28 bn
Though the tech industry's four biggest companies were stung by a slowdown in spending, they reported a combined profit of $28 billion
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Google working on tools to improve user privacy in digital advertising
Google said its vision is for a "thriving internet where people around the world can continue to access ad-supported content, while also feeling confident that their data is protected"
World Coronavirus Dispatch: Remdesivir gets lukewarm endorsement
US deaths top 1,000 for fourth day, Google suffers first revenue decline, Spain's GDP shrinks 18.5% and other pandemic-related news across the globe
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FB, Google eye Jio pact to expand in India; plan to take solutions global
During their investor calls, the US-based companies highlighted the importance of the Indian market which is home to one of the world's largest Internet consumer bases
'Fair go': Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first
Google protests, says the regulation ignores 'billions of clicks' that it sends to Australian news publishers each year
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Google's $2.1-billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust investigation
The deal, announced last November, would see Google compete with market leader Apple and Samsung in the fitness-tracking and smart-watch market
'Absolutely false': CEO Pichai denies Google's link with Chinese military
In one of the harshest attacks on Google, two US representatives accused the company of helping China's military
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Google supercomputer, Nvidia GPUs break AI performance records
Google said it has built the worlds fastest machine learning (ML) training supercomputer that broke AI performance records in six out of eight industry-leading MLPerf benchmarks
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Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk made $115 billion this year
Their fast-growing wealth provides a breathtaking measure of their companies' economic might
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4 Big Tech CEOs under US Congress scanner on issues of competition, privacy
One of them is the world's richest individual (Bezos); another is the fourth-ranked billionaire (Zuckerberg)
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Google Stadia tests game streaming on a 4G or 5G mobile network
Google has announced a new Stadia experiment that lets users play games on mobile devices over 4G and 5G cellular networks
In prepared remarks, big tech CEOs defend themselves ahead of US testimony
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai to be grilled over the dominance in their fields of e-retail, smartphone software, social media and search.
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Google's new subsea cable to link US, United Kingdom and Spain
The cable, named Grace Hopper after the computer scientist, will also connect to Spain, becoming the first Google fiber line to land there, the company said in a statement
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