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Decoding India's stand on digital tax
Traditional international tax law principles fail to account for the developments in technology that allow businesses to cater to market jurisdictions remotely
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In pics: Mukesh Ambani 9th among top-10 richest men. Who are the others?
With RIL's market capitalisation crossing the Rs 11-trillion mark on Friday, its chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani became the ninth-richest billionaire globally
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India, European nations may soon tax digital firms as US upends global plan
United States pulled out of global talks to put in place a multilateral instrument to bring these companies in the tax net.
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Mukesh Ambani now 9th richest globally; RIL's m-cap crosses Rs 11-trn mark
In March 2020, Ambani was ranked 21st on Forbes' annual billionaire list, with a net worth of $36.8 billion, while Page and Brin were 13th and 14th.
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Google loses appeal against $56 mn fine in France in privacy breach case
Google appealed the penalty issued by the French data privacy watchdog to the Council of State, France's final arbiter in such cases
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Google introduces new tools on YouTube to make video ads more shoppable
YouTube announced Video action campaigns, a simple and cost-effective way to drive more conversions across its platform
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After Google, Facebook commits $200 mn to support black entrepreneurs
The commitment is part of a broader $1.1 billion investment by Facebook in Black and diverse suppliers and communities in the US
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UK ditches homegrown Covid-19 tracing app to use Google-Apple model
A smartphone app developed by the National Health Service (NHS) was initially expected to be rolled out nationwide in May but did not materialise.
Google's $2.1 bn Fitbit deal could harm competition: Australian regulator
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is the first regulator to voice concerns about the deal in a preliminary decision on Thursday
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Justice department to propose curbs on legal immunity for social media
The recommendations for legislation follow a feud between President Donald Trump and Twitter Inc., which last month slapped fact-checks on some of his tweets
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Indian IT firms strengthen Cloud practice as digital adoption picks up
Companies are tying up with Cloud platform firms, ramping up internal team of specialists
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Google Duo now allows up to 32 people participants in a group video call
The search engine giant is also rolling out a new video codec technology to improve video call quality and reliability, even on very low-bandwidth connections
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Google Meet video conference service coming soon to Gmail for Android, iOS
In the coming weeks, Google users will get a new Meet tab on the phone's Gmail app where they can see upcoming meetings scheduled in Google Calendar, and join them with a single tap
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Perils of face-recognition
The technology has heightened privacy concerns
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Vodafone Idea: In Google's playstore?
In this battle of ecoystems, Google desperately needs a telecom company for its plans for India
Big Tech and the coronavirus
None of the Big Tech companies or tycoons appears to be playing a meaningful role in the testing, spread, cure, or eradication of the virus or even in contact tracing so far
Big tech's behind-the-scenes bets get bigger as Covid-19 slows economy
Many companies are retreating. But Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are placing bets to get even bigger
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Google to help summer interns with open-source technology at home
Technology giant Google said it had more than 1,000 technical interns actively contributing to open-source projects
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Google's new rules clamp down on discriminatory housing, job and credit ads
Google and Facebook together account for just over half of internet ad sales globally, making their policy actions influential in the industry
Find Covid-19 testing centres on Google Search, Assistant and Maps
The new feature is available in English and eight other languages in India -- Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati