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Google's 'castle and moat' strategy is data hegemony: CCI tells NCLAT

Fair trade regulator CCI on Thursday alleged that Google has created a digital data hegemony and called for a market space with "free, fair and open competition". Concluding the arguments of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) before the appellate tribunal NCLAT in the Google matter, Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman said a market with greater freedom for all players would be in total sync with principles of free competition rather than the 'walled garden' approach of the internet major. On October 20 last year, the CCI slapped a penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on Google for anti-competitive practices in relation to Android mobile devices. The regulator had also ordered the internet major to cease and desist from various unfair business practices. This ruling has been challenged before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). On Thursday, Venkataraman submitted that Google had used its money-spinning search engine as the 'castle' and the rest of the other a

Google to expand gaming service 'Play Games' on PC to more regions

The programme will be expanding to Japan and countries in Europe in the upcoming months with several new games including Garena Free Fire, Ludo King, and MapleStory M

Is Xi Jinping a good leader? Here is what Chinese chatbot answered

According to experts, censors on chatbots could strengthen ideological control and further separate China digitally from the rest of the world

Right to be forgotten: HC asks Google if de-indexing of publications doable

A single-judge bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh was hearing doctor Ishwar Gilada's petition pertaining to his wrongful arrest in regard to an FIR against him in 1999

Google is not just dominant but 'super dominant', CCI tells NCLAT

Argues that competition law puts onus on Google not to abuse its dominant position and not allow its conduct to impair genuine undistorted competition

Google may launch its Pixel Fold and Pixel 7a in June this year: Report

Tech giant Google will reportedly launch its upcoming 'Pixel Fold' and 'Pixel 7a' smartphones in June this year.

Walt Disney Co hunts for person responsible for leaking Ant-Man script

The entertainment giant was granted subpoenas Monday ordering Alphabet's Google, Reddit to turn over any data they have that would identify the person or persons who posted the script on their sites

Google unveils 'magic wand' for emails and documents: Report

Alphabet also said its AI will be able to summarise message threads in Gmail, craft slide presentations, personalise customer outreach and take meeting notes as part of its upgrade to Google Workspace

Google announces rolling out of new features for space managers in Chat

The new features do not have admin control, and are not available to users with personal Google Accounts

HP launches education-oriented Chromebook 15.6 laptop at Rs 28999: Details

Powered by Intel Celeron N4500 processor, the HP Chromebook 15.6 boots Google ChromeOS. It sports a 15.6-inch HD screen of 250nits peak brightness

Google rolling out faster 'Night Sight' on Pixel 6, 6 Pro smartphones

The company also mentioned that Pixel now has Health Connect built-in, giving users a powerful way to store, connect and share the data from their compatible health and fitness applications

Top headlines: Russia still India's main arms supplier, SVB fallout

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Firms that didn't sign Google contracts became extinct, says CCI

Google's alleged anti-competitive agreements prohibited original equipment manufacturers from producing a version of the OS that had not been approved as Android-compatible by Google

Tech giant Google announces 'Android 13 QPR3 Beta 1', launch on March 13

Tech giant Google has announced that it will release its "Android 13 QPR3 Beta 1" update in the week of March 13

Google to now let beta users reorder devices in Home application

Beta users will now see a "Reorder" button at the bottom of the Favourites tab, while "Add" appears to have been renamed to "Edit"

Google announces to start its Chrome 111 update, will end Cleanup Tool

Google has announced that starting with the Chrome 111 update, it has turned down its Chrome Cleanup Tool an application distributed to Chrome users on Windows

Tech giant Google to promote fewer employees to senior roles in 2023

The L6 distinction refers to the first layer of the workforce which is considered senior and normally consists of people with roughly ten years of experience

VPN access expanding to Google One members, to be available in 22 nations

Tech giant Google has announced that it is expanding its VPN access to all Google One members, including members with the Basic plan that starts at $1.99 per month

Competition Commission of India squeezed by staff vacancies and workload

The Competition Commission of India, which has imposed million dollar penalties on Alphabet Inc.'s Google to Amazon.com Inc., is functioning with just two members

Google-backed startup unveils multilingual voice search technology

Slang Labs was co-founded in 2017 by founders who had earlier co-founded Little Eye Labs, the first and only Indian company to be acquired by Meta (Facebook)