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Google, Meta file lawsuit against South Korean data watchdog's ruling

Google and Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against a ruling by the South Korean data protection watchdog to penalise the global tech giants for illegally collecting personal data here

Streaming platform YouTube Music gives update on 'Listening Room' programme

Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music has provided an update on its 'Listening Room' programme, for which the company opened and then quickly closed applications in January.

Google rolls out PDF drawing, highlighting tools on cloud service Drive

Google has rolled out new annotation tools on its cloud service Drive on Android, which will give users a quick way to draw on and highlight PDFs

Google Keep's new feature lets users pin notes to home screen on Android

Tech giant Google has announced that it is rolling out a new feature on its note-taking service 'Google Keep' that will allow users to "pin" a note or list to their home screen on Android devices

Google purges over 7,500 YouTube channels linked to malicious operations

Google took down more than 7,500 YouTube channels in Q1 2023 as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations, and terminated 6,285 YouTube channels

Google-owned YouTube disables posts, new comments on English Help forum

Meanwhile, YouTube Music will soon introduce podcasts to the application for users in the US

Unicorn proptech start-up NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google for expansion

Unicorn proptech startup NoBroker has raised USD 5 million from technology major Google as part of its expansion plan. NoBroker has bagged funding from Google, which joins existing investors General Atlantic, Tiger Global and Moore Strategic Ventures in its Series E round, the Bengaluru-based firm said in a statement. In November 2021, NoBroker.com raised USD 210 million from investors, including General Atlantic and Tiger global to expand its business across 50 cities. The Series E funding round was led by General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management and Moore Strategic Ventures. NoBroker platform helps in renting, buying, selling, home services, financial services to society management services through NoBrokerHood. "One of the key areas where we will leverage this partnership will be to build unique solutions that help simplify the lives of the residents of NoBrokerHood societies. Our objective is to aggressively grow and reach 1 lakh societies in the next few years," said Akhil ..

Prop-tech startup NoBroker raises $5 mn from Google in extended Series E

With this, Google joins existing investors General Atlantic, Tiger Global and Moore Strategic Ventures; tech giant will also collaborate with NoBroker to enhance overall user experience

Google Chrome's latest update extends MacBook battery life: Report

Meanwhile, last month, the tech giant had rolled out the Memory and Energy Saver modes for Chrome on Mac, Windows, Linux as well as Chromebooks

Google's non-compliance will hit us hard, lament leading Indian startups

Leading startups gathered under one roof to brainstorm on implications of Google's User Choice Billing system, saying Google's non-compliance with CCI orders will only harm the startup ecosystem

Google's client-side encryption now available to users globally for Gmail

Google has announced that client-side encryption mode is now generally available for Gmail globally to customers with Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, and Education Plus

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Google services like Gmail, Workspace suffers brief outage globally

Around 60 per cent people on downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, reported problems with Google website while 35 per cent had issues with login

Centre invites Big Tech, start-ups to discuss digital competition law

Big Tech companies have been asked to come separately on March 11 to make suggestions on the digital competition law

How Google sunsetting Optimize is an opportunity for Indian tech startups

With Google announcing the sunset clause, several players are gearing up to take its market share

Google achieves quantum error correction milestone: Sundar Pichai

"Instead of working on the physical qubits on our quantum processor one by one, we are treating a group of them as one logical qubit," said Pichai

Tech giant Google announces two-pane view for Gmail on Android foldables

"As part of our mission to provide a top-class user experience on large screen devices, Android foldable-device users have been able to access a 2-pane view for Google Meet and Gmail," the giant said

Google may integrate AI text-to-image generator to Gboard for Android

This Imagen feature will appear in the shortcuts strip/page, like Clipboard, Translate, and One-handed

Google awards record $12 mn to 700 bug researchers in 2022, Indian leads

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the company awarded a record $12 mn in bug bounties to more than 700 researchers in 2022, including the largest award in its bug bounty programme history