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Google Doodle celebrates 86th birth anniversary of Indonesian actress
Google Doodle is celebrating the 86th birth anniversary of popular Indonesian actress Aminah Cendrakaish. She has done over 100 roles in a career spanning over five decades
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Google Lumiere: Everything about multimodal AI model for videos creation
Lumiere video generation AI model lets users apply text-based image editing methods for consistent video editing, said Google
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TMS Ep616: Zee-Sony merger, cookieless market, interim Budget, stress test
Has Zee run out of options after merger collapse? Are Indian businesses ready for a cookieless market? What do investors expect from interim Budget? What is stress testing in finance? Answers here
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Salesforce to lay off around 700 employees across company: Report
With this, Salesforce has become the fourth tech major to trim its workforce in 2024 after Google, Twitch and Amazon
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Google's Feature Drop brings 'Circle to Search' feature to Pixel 8 series
Google has introduced a new Mint Green colourway for the Pixel 8 series in the US
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Google likely to go for major design change on Pixel 9 Pro: Details here
The Pixel 9 Pro is expected to feature a completely redesigned back with a floating Island-style camera module, inspired by the Pixel Fold
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Google ends contract with Australian AI data firm that's helped train Bard
Appen notified the Australian Securities Exchange in a filing, saying that it had no prior knowledge of Google's decision to terminate the contract
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Google Chrome for Macs, PCs set to get 3 new GenAI features: Details here
The new AI features will initially be available in the US for Chrome on both Macs and Windows PCs. However, a global roll out is expected in the coming months
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Samsung, Google to bring royalty free Dolby Atmos competitor soon: Report
Unlike Dolby Atmos, Samsung's 3D spatial audio technology - Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) - is speculated to be royalty free and open source
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Alphabet's Moonshot X Lab cuts staff, looks for outside investors
As part of the restructuring, X is laying off dozens of employees, according to one of the people with knowledge of the matter. The layoffs are focused on support staff
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SC to hear Google's plea against CCI fine of Rs 1,337.76 crore on April 30
Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Google and Addl Solicitor-General Venkatraman appearing for CCI said it will take both sides 4 days to argue the case as there are new points to be raised
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The online ad cookie is crumbling as Google Chrome secures privacy
Businesses rethink digital strategy as the world's most popular browser phases out a key way of tracking users
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Madras HC dismisses startups' appeals against Google's billing policy
The court has, however, asked Google not to delist the startups' mobile applications for three weeks
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'Removing layers': Sundar Pichai hints at more layoffs at Google in 2024
Google CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks followed a day after the tech giant handed pink slips to around 1,000 employees in the advertising sales team in the first layoff wave of 2024
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Google Pay signs agreement to expand UPI for international payments
This will enable Indian travellers to transact digitally outside the country while also establishing systems similar to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in other countries
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Google confirms fresh round of layoffs; 1,000 employees receive pink slips
Google aims to enhance support for small & medium businesses by restructuring its ad team through job cuts, as well as using AI to enhance efficiency
YouTube making money off new breed of climate denial, monitoring group
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 of Alphabet Inc's YouTube channels
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Google to add more real-money game apps on Play, charge a service fee
The "expanded RMG support" will be launched in June for developers in India, Mexico, and Brazil, with plans to extend the service to more countries later
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Google's $2.7 bn EU antitrust fine should be upheld, says court adviser
The European Commission handed down the fine to the company in 2017 for using its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals
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Google teams up with Samsung yet again, renames Nearby Share to Quick Share
Quick Share will start rolling out to current Nearby Share enabled devices next month, said Google
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