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SC to hear Google's plea against CCI fine of Rs 1,337.76 crore on April 30

Senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Google and Addl Solicitor-General Venkatraman appearing for CCI said it will take both sides 4 days to argue the case as there are new points to be raised

The online ad cookie is crumbling as Google Chrome secures privacy

Businesses rethink digital strategy as the world's most popular browser phases out a key way of tracking users

Madras HC dismisses startups' appeals against Google's billing policy

The court has, however, asked Google not to delist the startups' mobile applications for three weeks

Google Pay signs agreement to expand UPI for international payments

This will enable Indian travellers to transact digitally outside the country while also establishing systems similar to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in other countries

Google confirms fresh round of layoffs; 1,000 employees receive pink slips

Google aims to enhance support for small & medium businesses by restructuring its ad team through job cuts, as well as using AI to enhance efficiency

YouTube making money off new breed of climate denial, monitoring group

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) used artificial intelligence to review transcripts from 12,058 videos from the past six years on 96 of Alphabet Inc's YouTube channels

Google to add more real-money game apps on Play, charge a service fee

The "expanded RMG support" will be launched in June for developers in India, Mexico, and Brazil, with plans to extend the service to more countries later

Google's $2.7 bn EU antitrust fine should be upheld, says court adviser

The European Commission handed down the fine to the company in 2017 for using its own price comparison shopping service to gain an unfair advantage over smaller European rivals

Google fires Fitbit co-founders, lays off hundreds of employees: Here's why

Google is laying off hundreds of employees across multiple teams, with Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman also leaving the company. Watch the video to know why

Google News Initiative announces second cohort of startup labs in India

The three-month-long programme aims to assist independent, early-stage Indian news startups in achieving financial and operational sustainability

Indians downloaded 26 billion apps on mobile devices in 2023, shows data

Among app categories, gaming led the download numbers with 9.3 billion, followed by social (over 2.36 billion), and photo and video (1.86 billion)

Google, Meta, Tiktok's debts removed from Russian state bailiffs' database

But the database, accessed by Reuters on Wednesday, still includes X (formerly Twitter) and Twitch, with fines totalling 51 million roubles ($560,730) and 23 million roubles ($252,879), respectively

Google settles $5 bn lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'

Google has agreed to settle a USD 5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser along with similar "private" modes in other browsers to track their internet use. The class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using incognito mode. It argued that Google's advertising technologies and other techniques continued to catalog details of users' site visits and activities despite their use of supposedly private browsing. Plaintiffs also charged that Google's activities yielded an unaccountable trove of information about users who thought they'd taken steps to protect their privacy. The settlement, reached Thursday, must still be approved by a federal judge. Terms weren't disclosed, but the suit originally sought USD 5 billion on behalf of users; lawyers for the plaintiffs said they expect to present the court with a final settlement ...

Black Box eyes 3x growth to $2 bn by 2027 with focus on critical infra

Indian IT company Black Box is expecting a threefold increase in revenue to USD 2 billion over the next three years, driven by demand for critical technological infrastructure. Black Box President and CEO Sanjeev Verma told PTI that focusing on digital infrastructure, connectivity, networking, modern workplace cybersecurity, along with artificial integration, is going to provide a huge runway to the company. "I think we see the future for digital infrastructure business ramping up on the back of hybrid activity on the data centre side, requirement for people to collaborate across continents and cultures, hybrid workplaces that have become a norm post-Covid." "We are looking at double-digit growth organically over the next few years and expect to push towards USD 2 billion (Rs 16,632 crore) revenues in the next three years," Verma said. The company had reported a consolidated revenue of Rs 6,233 crore in FY23, as per a BSE filing. Black Box works with big tech companies like Amazon

Google makes it easy to unsubscribe emails on Gmail app for iOS: Report

This is the first time Google has brought a new feature to iOS before rolling it out on their own Android powered devices

Google rejected Play Store fee changes due to revenue impact: Epic Lawsuit

Google created Project Everest in 2021 to reconsider the Play Store billing model, according to the documents, which were released as part of an antitrust suit by Epic Games Inc

Rebranded Nearby Share, battery health indicator and more coming to Android

Android's Nearby Share is getting rebranded to Quick Share, which is expected to roll out in coming week. Another feature coming to Android is Battery Health Indicator, which may take time to arrive

Wearables: Do you want Mark Zuckerberg snooping around in your closet?

Now companies like Google and Meta have an opportunity to watch our real-world lives through wearables, which could make today's online surveillance business look like something out of the Stone Age

Russian court fines Google $50.8 mn over 'fake' Ukraine information

A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google on Wednesday 4.6 billion roubles ($50.84 million) for failing to delete so-called "fake" information about the conflict in Ukraine

Google plans restructuring 30,000-people ad sales unit as automation booms

Sean Downey, who oversees ad sales to big customers in the Americas, said at a department-wide meeting last week that Google plans to restructure its ad sales teams