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Google purges over 7,500 YouTube channels linked to malicious operations
Google took down more than 7,500 YouTube channels in Q1 2023 as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations, and terminated 6,285 YouTube channels
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Google-owned YouTube disables posts, new comments on English Help forum
Meanwhile, YouTube Music will soon introduce podcasts to the application for users in the US
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Unicorn proptech start-up NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google for expansion
NoBroker platform helps in renting, buying, selling, home services, financial services to society management services through NoBrokerHood
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Prop-tech startup NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google in extended Series E
With this, Google joins existing investors General Atlantic, Tiger Global and Moore Strategic Ventures; tech giant will also collaborate with NoBroker to enhance overall user experience
Google Chrome's latest update extends MacBook battery life: Report
Meanwhile, last month, the tech giant had rolled out the Memory and Energy Saver modes for Chrome on Mac, Windows, Linux as well as Chromebooks
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Google's non-compliance will hit us hard, lament leading Indian startups
Leading startups gathered under one roof to brainstorm on implications of Google's User Choice Billing system, saying Google's non-compliance with CCI orders will only harm the startup ecosystem
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Google's client-side encryption now available to users globally for Gmail
Google has announced that client-side encryption mode is now generally available for Gmail globally to customers with Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus
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Top headlines: Apple creates new jobs, India's derivate bond trade at risk
Business Standard brings you the top headlines at this hour
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Web platforms and news generators' relation needs review
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Google services like Gmail, Workspace suffers brief outage globally
Around 60 per cent people on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, reported problems with Google website while 35 per cent had issues with login
Centre invites Big Tech, start-ups to discuss digital competition law
Big Tech companies have been asked to come separately on March 11 to make suggestions on the digital competition law
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How Google sunsetting Optimize is an opportunity for Indian tech startups
With Google announcing the sunset clause, several players are gearing up to take its market share
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Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai
"Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai
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Tech giant Google announces two-pane view for Gmail on Android foldables
"As part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices, Android foldable-device users have been able to access a 2-pane view for Google Meet and Gmail," the giant said
Google may integrate AI text-to-image generator to Gboard for Android
This Imagen feature will appear in the shortcuts strip/page, like Clipboard, Translate, and One-handed
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Google awards record $12 mn to 700 bug researchers in 2022, Indian leads
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company awarded a record $12 mn in bug bounties to more than 700 researchers in 2022, including the largest award in its bug bounty programme history
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Google lays off 100 robot workers used to clean its cafeterias, says report
Alphabet, Google's parent company, recently laid off 12,000 workers and even 100 robots that cleaned its cafeterias at its headquarters
Regulators now gear up to probe Google Maps in potential anti-trust case
After facing an intense scrutiny of its Search and advertising businesses, Google is reportedly facing another potential probe from the US Department of Justice (DoJ)
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Google disobeying CCI orders blatantly: Digital start-up thinktank
The CCI in October 2022 directed Google to make significant changes to its Play Store policies after it found several anti-competitive practices on the platform
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Android case: CCI's Rs 1,337 crore fine unreasonable, Google tells NCLAT
The tech giant also said CCI itself had recognised that Google's Mobile Application Distribution Agreement (MADA) was beneficial to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs)
