Tag: Google

Apple and Google to be taken to court by France, says...

PARIS: France will take Google and Apple to court over contractual terms imposed by the tech giants on startups and developers, said Finance Minister...

German minister to challenge Google and Facebook’s presentation of news

BERLIN: Germany’s incoming minister with responsibility for digital policy says she will push social media giants to make users’ information feeds more diverse and...

EU aims to tax internet giants at ‘two to six percent’:...

PARIS: The European Union (EU) will soon unveil a plan for taxing major internet companies like Amazon and Facebook by imposing a levy of...

Google’s Clips camera aims to bring AI into home gadgets

Babies, dogs, and artificial intelligence. Alphabet’s Google is betting this combination proves irresistible with the launch of Google Clips, a pocket-sized digital camera that decides...

Google starts blocking irksome ads on its browser

WASHINGTON: Google has begun a new effort to block annoying ads on its Chrome browser, as part of an initiative aimed at improving the...

Higher costs, names new chairman hit Google parent company

Google parent company Alphabet on Thursday reported a quarterly loss to set aside funds to pay taxes on repatriated profits and named a new...

Google aims to get ‘diverse perspectives’ into search results

SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc’s Google will put more of a premium on “diverse perspectives” in its search results, saying in a blog post on...

Paris to get an artificial intelligence research centre courtesy Google

PARIS: Google on Monday announced it will open a research centre in Paris devoted to artificial intelligence, following a meeting between the tech giant’s...

Google faces calls to lift blocks in Iran

Google is facing calls to lift a block it has placed on its services for Iranian users as the regime continues to clamp down...

Google pulls YouTube from Amazon devices, escalating spat

A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two...

Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Dear Zindagi’ Google Play’s most popular movie in...

Alia Bhatt and Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Dear Zindagi’ is the most popular movie of the year on Google Play in India, Google announced,...

PRA serves notices to Google and Facebook: report

LAHORE: Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has once again served notices to Google and Facebook to register with the authority under Punjab Sales Tax Services...

Google to offer $1000 to anyone who hacks Snapchat, Tinder

Google is offering security experts a bounty to identify Android app flaws as the Alphabet unit seeks to wipe out bugs from its Google...

Google unveils new moves to boost struggling news organisations

Google announced new steps to help struggling news organisations Monday -- including an end to a longstanding "first click free" policy to generate fresh...

Amid escalating dispute, Google blocks YouTube on Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’

Owners of Amazon’s Echo Show device found themselves cut off from their favourite YouTube videos Tuesday, with the device instead telling them that Google was “currently not supporting” the...

Internet giants, once above the fray, on the defensive in Washington

WASHINGTON: Internet giants, including Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Facebook (FB.O), are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an...

97 tech giants are suing Trump for immigration ban 

Alphabet, Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Intel and 90 other technology companies have filed a legal brief opposing Trump’s immigration ban on the grounds...