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Google's 'Product Studio' to help merchants create product imagery using AI
Google is also making it easier for merchants to access and understand their performance by bringing all insights reports into the Performance tab
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Getting AI right requires policy framework ensuring accountability: Google
Artificial Intelligence will be "critical" to future scientific and economic growth, a blog post by tech titan Google has said
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Samsung not planning to switch from Google to Bing on its devices: Report
Samsung Electronics will reportedly not be switching its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing anytime soon
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Companies aren't taking on Google due to fear: Matrimony.com Founder-CEO
In a Q&A, Murugavel Janakiraman, talks about the Google battle, evolution of the Indian marriage market after Covid, and his company's roadmap for the future
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Samsung not planning to replace Google with Microsoft Bing in phones
Shares of Google-parent Alphabet Inc gained more than 1% in premarket trading. Microsoft shares were down about 1%
Google-owned YouTube to introduce 30-second non-skip ads to TVs: Report
The company said that running longer-form creative on the big screen aligns with advertisers' objectives, and allows for richer storytelling
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Google won't delete inactive YouTube accounts with videos at this time
The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organisations like schools or businesses
What's new on YouTube: More ads, including a 30 sec long unskippable on TVs
30-second ads will be available to advertisers via YouTube Select, a curated advertising platform. These longer ads will be reserved for the top five per cent of YouTube content
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Google to kill 3rd-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users early next year
Google has announced it will migrate one per cent of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and deprecate third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024
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Big win for Twitter, Google at US Supreme Court in internet liability cases
Twitter and Google registered a big win in US Supreme Court on Thursday as the court sidestepped claims that internet companies can be held accountable for the content posted on their sites
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Google launches Workspace Individual plan in 20 new countries: Report
The company said it will purge the content in inactive accounts within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos
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Pixel 7a review: Google's entry-level phone is mixed bag of hits and misses
Pixel 7a delivers on imaging and software experience, which are core features for Google smartphones. However, the otherwise solid smartphone is set back by weak on-battery time and thermal issues
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Google to take 'necessary steps' to enforce new in-app billing policy
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October 2022 directed the company to make significant changes to its Play Store policies after it found several anti-competitive practices on the platform
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Google says in compliance with CCI order, pushes ahead with in-app billing
Google on Wednesday said its Google Play's payments policy is compliant with the anti-trust watchdog CCI's order and it is pushing ahead with plans to enforce the policy in the country
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Play Store service fees lowest among major app stores, says Google
Google estimates that out of more than 200,000 Indian developers on Google Play, less than 60 could pay a service fee of above 15 per cent
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Google's new AI-tools to help accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine
Google Cloud announced two new AI-powered life sciences solutions to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for biotech companies, pharmaceutical firms, and public sector organisations.
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Out of 0.2 mn developers around 60 pay service fee above 15%: Google
Google defended its position on Play Store fee for developers and its stance on user choice billing policy, saying that service fees are actually lowest among major app stores
Haven't checked your old Gmail account in a while? Google may delete it
Google will start by deleting accounts that were created but never used again, and the company will issue repeated reminders in the months leading up to a deletion
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Smaller firms can still compete in AI depending on product mkt fit: Nadella
Nadella pointed to search as an example of how AI has sparked fresh competition in a space dominated by Google's engine
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Google to delete all personal accounts that have been inactive for 2 years
Google's internal analysis shows that abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up
