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Algo rhythm: Digital spells money for India's BFSI companies, says report
The cost of acquiring customers through digital channels is 70 per cent cheaper, says the Google and McKinsey report
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A search for fairness
Google case will be vital for competition laws
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Google's Sundar Pichai joins CEOs in White House meeting on immigration
President Joe Biden's administration has requested $600 million from Congress for housing, and said it will work with cities to facilitate work permits for eligible asylum seekers
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California settles with Google over location privacy practices for $93 mn
The settlement follows a $391.5 mn settlement with 40 states, reached in Nov 2022, to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations
Google's search defaults prey on power of habit: Expert in antitrust trial
"Search engine defaults generate a sizable and robust bias towards the default," Rangel said. "Defaults have a powerful impact on consumer decisions"
Google parent Alphabet fires hundreds from global recruitment team
Firm cut about 12,000 jobs in January, reducing workforce by 6%
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DoJ pushes ahead with antitrust case against Google, questions ex-employee
Govt is arguing that Google has rigged the market in its favour by locking in its search engine as the one users see first on their devices, shutting out competition and smothering innovation
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Google anti-trust trial spotlights internal dispute over algorithm vs data
And now it's a key feature in a landmark antitrust trial, where the US Justice Department claims Google spends billions of dollars to stifle competition and preserve its monopoly over online search
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AI, digital solutions integration to bolster BFSI: Google McKinsey report
The report combines analysis of Google Search trends, revealing that online demand exceeded total purchases across all product categories by 3-5 times in 2022
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Google exploited exclusive search engine deals to maintain advantage: DoJ
"Google pays more than $10 billion per year for these privileged positions,'' Dintzer said
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Google pays $10 bn a year to maintain monopoly: US Justice Department
Dintzer said Google became a monopoly by at least 2010 and today controls more than 89% of the online search market
Google's search dominance challenged in biggest antitrust trial in decades
Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial
Google Watch 2 arriving in India with Pixel 8 series on Oct 5: Details here
Google India in a post on X (formerly Twitter) announced that the Pixel 8 series smartphone and Pixel Watch 2 will be made available in India on October 5, exclusively on Flipkart
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It's Google versus US in the biggest antitrust trial in over 2 decades
Top executives at Google and its corporate parent Alphabet Inc., as well as those from other powerful technology companies are expected to testify
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Google's dominance of search faces major challenge with US regulators
The US government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google's ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet's main gateway
Google tests AI-powered proofread feature in Gboard keyboard: Details here
According to reports from 9To5Google, the AI-powered Gboard checks the text for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors and fixes those issues using generative AI
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Putting name to stranger's face: Tech Facebook, Google didn't dare release
Engineers at the tech giants built these tools years ago but Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things
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Google offers glimpse of Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro ahead of October event
According to The Verge, an American technology news website, the pictures and videos shared by Google show how much smaller the Pixel 8 is in comparison to the 8 Pro
YouTube Playables: Everything about Google's upcoming online gaming service
Playables are games that can be played directly on YouTube on both desktop and mobile devices
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AI used to alter political ads will require prominent disclosure on Google
Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have being synthetically altered