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Lawsuit on Google Play over 'exorbitant fees' grows to 21 million users

The consumers claim Google inflates Android app prices by taking, with some exceptions, a 30% cut of sales on Google Play

States, trade body settle with Google, iHeartMedia over misleading ads

The Federal Trade Commission and a handful of states announced settlements Monday with Google and iHeartMedia related to misleading radio advertisements about a Google cellphone. The settlements stem from complaints alleging Google paid to have radio personalities endorse and talk about their personal experiences using the Pixel 4, one of the company's cellphones, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. At the time, the phone wasn't available and many of the radio DJs had not used it, Bonta said. The ads ran more than 23,000 times across 10 media markets, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, Bonta's office said. Google will pay $9 million and iHeartMedia will pay $400,000, Bonta's office said. iHeartMedia is the largest owner of radio stations in the nation. Some smaller radio stations also ran the ads. Google tried to take shortcuts in advertising its products, and now it's paying the price, Bonta said in a statement. Asking DJs to share personal experiences about

Google announces new updates for Workspace, to improve search results

This feature is particularly useful when the names of columns or fields are too long and the user wants to see the entire text

Google, Microsoft announce new pacts to use renewable energy in data centre

Google and Microsoft have both announced new agreements to lower their IT operations' carbon footprint by using renewable energy sources in their data centres.

Will make phones if Apple, Google remove Twitter from app stores: Elon Musk

Twitter is now facing a close scrutiny by both Apple and Google app stores and Musk is worried that the micro-blogging platform can get removed from the app stores

Millions of Android devices prone to hacking due to GPU bug: Google

Google's Project Zero team said it had alerted the chip designer ARM about the GPU bug, and the British chip designer had fixed those vulnerabilities

Geo-tracking apps: How are parent-child relations bearing up?

Geo-tracking apps such as Find My Kids, Google Family Link and Apple's FindMy are fast growing in popularity, handing parents unprecedented powers to monitor their offspring

YouTube starts beta testing of quiz feature for community posts: Report

The new feature is in beta and only available to a small number of creators

Google starts testing full emoji reactions on Messages app: Report

With the redesigned photo picker users are able to see around 22 images by swiping left and it also provides a shortcut to quickly open the camera

Google Pixel 7 series gets cheaper with bank, exchange offers on Flipkart

The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are available at discounted price of Rs 51,499 and Rs 72,999, inclusive of bank offer and exchange bonus discounts, on Flipkart

Google alerts Gmail users about 5 key holiday season scams, spams

Charity-related scams and phishing attempts are harmful to both the victims of the frauds and the charities that would have benefited from the donations

Explained: What is Post.news, the emerging easy-to-use Twitter alternative

Post.news is a microblogging platform set up by Noam Bardin, former CEO of Waze and an ex-Google employee

In layoff season, Google may fire 10,000 'low performing' employees

The news on layoff at Google has come within days of a letter that hedge fund TCI, an investor in the company, wrote to Alphabet. TCI has shares worth $6 billion in Alphabet

Meta is India's largest media company: A look at the ten big firms in 2022

A look at the ten big media firms in the financial year ending 2022

UK watchdog to investigate Apple, Google mobile browser dominance

Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday launched an in-depth investigation into the dominance of the mobile browsers of Apple and Google

Vu Technologies launches Google TV-powered GloLED TV 43-inch at Rs 29,999

The Vu GloLED TV 43-inch will be available on the e-commerce platform Flipkart from November 27 at 12pm

Google introduces new AR features to shop for beauty products, shoes

With assistance from beauty brands, Google's new photo library features 148 models representing a range of skin tones, ages, genders, face shapes, ethnicities, and skin types

DuckDuckGo: Everything about privacy-focused browser app for iOS, Android

DuckDuckGo is a search engine with in-built tracker blocker, encryption enforcer, and private search engine that allow users to browse web in private

CCI order in Google case may have implications for local developers

The CCI fined Google Rs 936.44 crore on October 25 for abusing its dominant position with regards to its Play Store Billing and payment policy

Google Workspace introduces conversation summaries in Spaces Chats

Google has introduced conversation summaries in Google Chat for messages in "Spaces", which will summarise conversations for users in their Premium Workspace