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US court orders Google to pay Sonos $32.5 mn over patent infringement

Jurors said that Google should pay $2.30 for each of the more than 14 million devices sold

Google rolls out its Android Play Games for PC to Europe, New Zealand

Google has rolled out its multi-platform gaming experience Play Games for PC Beta -- a service that lets users play Android games on Windows -- to users in Europe and New Zealand

Stock trading platform 5paisa appoints Ex-Google Narayan Gangadhar as CEO

Discount brokerage firm 5paisa Capital on Thursday said it has appointed former Google executive Narayan Gangadhar as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. Gangadhar has over two decades of experience, mostly with global technology companies like Google, Uber and Amazon. He is a Bachelor of Engineering from Mumbai University and a Master in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a statement said. "Gangadhar's engineering skills and Silicon Valley experience with tech giants will complement the digital transformation priorities at 5paisa.com. Technology, both on the infrastructure trading platform and user interface experience side, will play a critical role in the brokerage industry going forward," promoter R Venkataraman said. 5paisa.com is a leading discount broker with around 35 lakh customers as at the end of March 2023. In December 2022, 5paisa.com announced merger of online retail trading business of IIFL Securities with itself in an all-stock deal,

Nearly 200,000 tech employees fired globally in 2023; more layoffs expected

According to recent data from layoff.fyi, a layoff tracker website, 702 companies have laid off 199,047 employees in 2023 so far worldwide

Google's 'Product Studio' to help merchants create product imagery using AI

Google is also making it easier for merchants to access and understand their performance by bringing all insights reports into the Performance tab

Getting AI right requires policy framework ensuring accountability: Google

Artificial Intelligence will be "critical" to future scientific and economic growth, a blog post by tech titan Google has said asserting the need for a holistic AI strategy focused on unlocking opportunity through innovation, ensuring responsibility and trust, and protecting global security. A cohesive AI agenda needs to advance all three goals not any one at the expense of the others, Google said in a white paper with suggestions for policy agenda for responsible AI progress. The suggestions ranged from growing investments in innovation and competitiveness to promoting an enabling legal framework for AI innovation and preparing the workforce for an AI-driven job transition. The blog post titled, 'A policy agenda for responsible AI progress: Opportunity, Responsibility, Security' said calls for a halt to technological advances are unlikely to be successful or effective, and risk missing out on AI's substantial benefits and falling behind those who embrace its potential. Instead, .

Samsung not planning to switch from Google to Bing on its devices: Report

Samsung Electronics will reportedly not be switching its smartphones' default search engine from Google to Microsoft's Bing anytime soon

Companies aren't taking on Google due to fear: Matrimony.com Founder-CEO

In a Q&A, Murugavel Janakiraman, talks about the Google battle, evolution of the Indian marriage market after Covid, and his company's roadmap for the future

Samsung not planning to replace Google with Microsoft Bing in phones

Shares of Google-parent Alphabet Inc gained more than 1% in premarket trading. Microsoft shares were down about 1%

Google-owned YouTube to introduce 30-second non-skip ads to TVs: Report

The company said that running longer-form creative on the big screen aligns with advertisers' objectives, and allows for richer storytelling

Google won't delete inactive YouTube accounts with videos at this time

The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organisations like schools or businesses

What's new on YouTube: More ads, including a 30 sec long unskippable on TVs

30-second ads will be available to advertisers via YouTube Select, a curated advertising platform. These longer ads will be reserved for the top five per cent of YouTube content

Google to kill 3rd-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users early next year

Google has announced it will migrate one per cent of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and deprecate third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024

Big win for Twitter, Google at US Supreme Court in internet liability cases

Twitter and Google registered a big win in US Supreme Court on Thursday as the court sidestepped claims that internet companies can be held accountable for the content posted on their sites

Google launches Workspace Individual plan in 20 new countries: Report

The company said it will purge the content in inactive accounts within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos

Google to take 'necessary steps' to enforce new in-app billing policy

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) in October 2022 directed the company to make significant changes to its Play Store policies after it found several anti-competitive practices on the platform

Google says in compliance with CCI order, pushes ahead with in-app billing

Google on Wednesday said its Google Play's payments policy is compliant with the anti-trust watchdog CCI's order and it is pushing ahead with plans to enforce the policy in the country. "In 2020, we clarified the requirements of our payments policy, and developers in India have had considerable time to make the necessary changes to their apps," it said in a blog post. "We're respectfully following the CCI's October 2022 order, and in compliance with that order, we expanded user choice billing to all developers in India and updated our policy that went into effect starting April 26, 2023." Google said as the deadline of April 26 had now passed, it would be taking "necessary steps" to get developers to implement one of the billing options it offers. Three routes are available for app developers - using Google Play's billing system, an alternative billing system called the user choice billing system alongside Google Play's billing system for users in India and operating on a ...

Play Store service fees lowest among major app stores, says Google

Google estimates that out of more than 200,000 Indian developers on Google Play, less than 60 could pay a service fee of above 15 per cent

Google's new AI-tools to help accelerate drug discovery, precision medicine

Google Cloud announced two new AI-powered life sciences solutions to accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine for biotech companies, pharmaceutical firms, and public sector organisations.

Out of 0.2 mn developers around 60 pay service fee above 15%: Google

Google defended its position on Play Store fee for developers and its stance on user choice billing policy, saying that service fees are actually lowest among major app stores