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Global tech show CES to be held online in 2021 over Covid-19 concerns
CES is the biggest annual event in Las Vegas and cancellation will be a blow to the city, where hotel prices soar and roads clog with traffic during the event
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Australian regulator sues Google for misleading about personal data use
Regulator says practice allowed Alphabet Inc unit to link the names and other ways to identify consumers with their behaviour elsewhere on the internet
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India Inc's deal activity at a 6-year low amid Covid-19 pandemic
Last year, India Inc sealed deals worth $88.88 billion in the January-July period, but this year the total transactions are $56.73 billion, fueled mainly by RIL-Jio deals
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Google extends work from home for employees till June 30 next year
In May, Google had also announced $1,000 allowances to cover equipment costs for employees working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Google working on smart tattoos that turn skin into living touchpad
Google is working on smart tattoos that, when applied to skin, will transform the human body into a living touchpad via embedded sensors
Top headlines: Mistry family in talks for funds, Google ups lending biz
Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj says he is certain that a V-shaped economic recovery will take a year.
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RIL's home team advantage
India's complicated e-commerce policy with restrictions on overseas investors may help keep out global retail and e-commerce players
US House panel hearing with big tech CEOs rescheduled for Wednesday
The panel has conducted a bipartisan investigation over the past year of the tech giants' market dominance and their effect on consumers
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Google getting serious about competing with Amazon in online shopping
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the push to create an online shopping marketplace to compete with Amazon has taken on new urgency as consumers are avoiding stores
Google Messages gets emojis, voice message, other WhatsApp-like features
Take a look the Google Messages new features and how they work
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GPay a third party app provider, not payment system operator: RBI to HC
The bench said the matter requires detailed hearing as it affects other third party apps and listed it on July 22
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Google Assistant for KaiOS gets Google Lens-like text translation feature
The translate feature is currently available for English and several Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil
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How Reliance Jio's Google deal in India threatens Chinese mobile market
Powered by a clever mix of Bollywood, cricket-driven marketing and product features such as powerful cameras, the Chinese firms at present sell roughly eight of every 10 smartphones in the country
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Internet speed, traffic show pick up in economic activity continues
Power generation numbers, pollution, railway freight among indicators Business Standard tracks weekly to know latest status of the economy.
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Amazon, Apple hire Fiona Scott Morton, one of big tech's most vocal critics
Amazon confirmed Scott Morton is working for the company but declined further comment. Apple didn't respond to a request seeking comment
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Disney, Apple and other firms pawns of China: Attorney General William Barr
Barr chided US companies for being too willing to take steps to ensure access to the large Chinese market
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RIL deploys Rs 35,000 crore from Jio stake sales into debt funds
The monies have been deployed into ultra-short and money-market funds, and others focused on debt with an average of three-to-five year maturities
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YouTube removes 480p video quality cap on smartphones, but not for everyone
The cap on video quality was implemented to ease load on the networks, which had seen unprecedented surge across the world due to coronavirus lockdown
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Reliance Industries looks to storm entry-level 4G, 5G smartphone market
On Tuesday, during the company's first pandemic-forced virtual annual general meeting, Ambani outlined another vision to disrupt the mobile device market again.
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Google tax row: US technology companies want action against India
IBM, US Chamber of Commerce oppose retaliatory tariffs
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