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Google buys artificial intelligence avatar startup 'Alter' for $100 mn

The acquisition was completed about two months ago, but neither company made a public announcement.

Google allegedly making disinformation profitable via ad business: Report

Google is making disinformation profitable via its ad practices for some of the Internet's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, an investigation found

Google plans legal challenge to block CCI's Android order: Report

The CCI-Android ruling, despite involving a smaller $162 million (Rs 1,334 crore) fine, has worried Google since it seeks wider ranging remedial measures

YouTube to split video content across all channels into 3 separate tabs

Video streaming platform YouTube has announced a new update that will now split video content across all channel pages into three separate tabs for Shorts, live streams and long-form videos.

YouTube introduces @ Handle feature: Know what is it, how it works and more

YouTube says its Handle feature would enable new way for users to find and connect with creators

Passkeys becoming a safe alternative to passwords: Google vice president

Functionality will be available for general users of company's app store and browser later this year

Google Workspace Individual storage raised from 15GB to 1TB: Details here

With this upgrade, most Workspace Individual users won't need to worry about running out of storage space in Gmail and Drive anymore

Best of BS Opinion: Protecting competition, the overvalued rupee, and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Protecting competition

The Competition Commission of India's action will open up the Android space

Indian developers benefit from Android, Play: Google on CCI penalty

Tech giant was yesterday ordered to pay Rs 937 cr as penalty for abusing dominant position of its app store

Pinch-to-zoom, precise seeking among updates in YouTube's all-new design

Features were introduced to offer users a more modern and immersive experience while improving how how users watch videos

Google rolls out custom emojis to Chat for personalised experience

Google has rolled out custom emojis to its Chat for personalised experience

Reviewing CCI's decision to evaluate next steps, committed to users: Google

Hit hard by 2 back-to-back fines by Competition Commission of India, Google on Wednesday said that it is committed to its users and developers and reviewing the decision to evaluate the next steps

Google logs highest selling week ever for Pixel smartphones: Sundar Pichai

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has revealed that the company recently had its highest selling week ever for the Pixel 7 series of smartphones

Alphabet's net profit in 3rd qtr sinks 27% to $13.9 bn, revenue up 6%

Alphabet, Google's parent company, has reported a net profit of $13.9 billion in the third quarter (Q3), down 27 per cent from a year earlier, while revenue increased 6 per cent to $69.1 billion

Top Headlines: RBI's liquidity infusion; Google fined Rs 936 crore by CCI

Walmart Inc-backed Flipkart is considering raising $2 billion to $3 billion at a valuation of more than $40 billion to expand its product range in India and challenge rivals

Google, Microsoft, TI announce disappointing results; tech stocks tumble

Google parent Alphabet Inc. fell as much as 7.4% after third-quarter revenue came in below expectations, while software giant Microsoft Corp. lost 8.1% following a disappointing revenue forecast

WhatsApp is back: Services restored after 2 hours of global outage

According to Downdetector website nearly 29,000 reports were flagged by users on the WhatsApp outage

Indian app developers hail CCI penalty on Google as 'collective victory'

Competition commission fine on tech giant for abusing dominant position will have domino effect in other markets, they add

Play Store policies: CCI lands second blow, Google fined Rs 936 crore

Regulator suggests eight corrective steps