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Google announces new features for Meet, Chromebooks to empower students

With an aim to empower teachers and students, tech giant Google on Wednesday announced that it is sharing new updates to Chromebooks, Google Classroom and Google Meet.

Australian court makes Google pay $515,000 over defamatory YouTube videos

John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos

Google to pay Australian politician over defamatory YouTube videos

An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its failure to take down a YouTuber's "relentless, racist, abusive and defamatory campaign

South Korean users file police complaint against Google CEO Sundar Pichai

A coalition of consumers on Friday filed a police case against Google's top executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, for the tech giant's in-app billing system

Google TV app is now available on Apple App Store for iPhones: Details here

Google TV app, which aggregates content recommendations from streaming services and lets users create a universal watchlist of their favourites, is now available on iOS

Samsung again collaborates with Google on 2nd Gen Tensor SoC: Report

South Korean tech giant Samsung is reportedly once again working with tech giant Google to create the next 2nd Generation Tensor SoC that will be underpinned in the upcoming Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.

Leaving behind mixed legacy, Sandberg quits Facebook at a perilous moment

She was pivotal in helping the company reach an unparalleled scale of more than two billion active users after Zuckerberg poached her from Google in 2008

Alleged prototype of Google Pixel 7 prototype hits eBay ahead of its launch

An alleged prototype of Google's upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has been offered on eBay, giving the audience a sneak peek at the device months before its official release.

Google backs India's ShareChat in $300 mn funding round at $5 bn valuation

ShareChat counts Twitter and Snap as investors and if the bid by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to buy Twitter goes through, Musk will have potentially a stake of between 6% and 8% in ShareChat

Mohalla Tech's valuation may cross $5 billion after raising $300 million

The parent company behind short-video platform Moj and regional social network ShareChat, is in the process of raising about $300 million in fresh funding from Alphabet Inc's Google and Singapore's Te

Google Assistant develops personalised speech recognition feature

According to 9to5Google, the tool will help Google Assistant get "better at recognising your frequent words and names"

Big firms versus intra-India variation

Each firm needs to choose how to respond to the enormous variation of locale within India

Tech giants Apple, Google face scrutiny over collecting abortion data

Many apps in both Apple's and Google's respective stores routinely collect data, then sell it to brokers, the senators said

Google likely working on two built-in snores, cough detection features

Google is working on two built-in snores and cough detection features that will let it detect if users snore or cough in their sleep

Google in talks to join India's open e-commerce network ONDC: Reports

The ONDC programme aims to join 30 million sellers and 10 million merchants online, and cover at least 100 cities and towns by August

Britain's regulator launches second probe into Google's ad practices

The Competition and Ma­rkets Authority's (CMA) latest probe follows its investigation into Google and Faceb­ook owner-Meta's "Jedi Blue" agreement earlier this year

Google takes yet another crack at e-commerce with renewed strategy

Raghavan is the first Google executive to oversee the technical operations behind both search and the ads division since Sundar Pichai did in 2014, shortly before he became CEO

Google Photos rolls out new filters to show skin in natural shade

At Google I/O, the company released the Monk Skin Tone Scale, an open-source library to help make machine learning of images more inclusive by better interpreting tones and shades

US bill could see Google, FB spinning off ad biz, may have India impact too

The bill would effectively put an end a company's ability to act as a broker for a buyer or seller of ad space while simultaneously owning the exchange on which the ad space is traded

A new bill introduced in the US Senate aims to break up Google's ad biz

If the introduced Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act passed, the legislation would force Sundar Pichai-led Google to divest its digital ads business within a year