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Google Assistant gets the best feature; saves us all from this tedious acitvity

The big differences are made with little things and Google has nailed it with the latest update to its Assistant.

Oct 1, 2020

Google Doodle celebrates Zohra Sehgal, pays tribute to the doyen of Hindi cinema

Here's why Google Doodle pays tribute to Zohra Sehgal : Rare and unseen pictures of 'doyen of Hindi cinema', who is the illustrator behind the artistic doodle, find out

Sep 29, 2020

Google reinforces Play Store gambling policies before IPL 13

Ahead of IPL 13, Google has reinforced its gambling policies, emphasising on the need for a safe user experience.

Sep 19, 2020

Google Drive down; users in major US cities affected, fix underway

Google Drive users are unable to access their files and folders after a nationwide outage affected education users. Google is aware of the problem.

Sep 8, 2020

'How long corona stay on clothes', 'Russia vaccine', 'Sushant Singh Rajput': What India searched on Google

Releasing its latest search trends report for August, Google on Monday (September 7) highlighted the most trending topics on its search engine.

Sep 8, 2020

What is Pacific Light Cable Network and why did Google, Facebook drop plans for it

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned that linking Los Angeles to Hong Kong via undersea cable network will pose national security challenges from Chinese tech intruders.

Sep 2, 2020

Fact Check: No, Mark Zuckerberg wasn't grilling meat during Anti-trust hearing

The viral video that shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg smoking meat in his backyard during the US Congress hearing on tech CEOs is a spoof.

Jul 30, 2020

'Google steals content from honest businesses': CEO Sundar Pichai questioned

Though it was Jeff Bezos' first congressional testimony, he appeared the least fazed. Cook drew fewer barbed questions than Bezos and handled them efficiently. Zuckerberg took the most damage, stumbling at times when confronted with internal emails.

Jul 30, 2020

CEOs of Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook to defend before US Congress by citing competition

The chief executives of four of the world's largest tech companies, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc, Apple and Alphabet's Google. plan to argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals.

Jul 29, 2020

Coronavirus impact: Google employees can work from home until June 2021

Google had said in May it would begin reopening more offices globally as early as June this year, but most Google employees would likely work from home until the end of this year.

Jul 28, 2020

Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms

A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet's Google will collaborate with India's Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world's second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say.

Jul 20, 2020

Google to invest Rs 33,737 crore for 7.73% stake in Jio Platforms

With Google's investment, strategic and financial investors have committed a total of 1.52 trillion rupees in the last few months, Mukesh Ambani said at the company's annual shareholders meeting hosted via a webcast.

Jul 15, 2020

Google, Facebook join lawsuit against student visa restrictions

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech firms have joined the lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) last week to block Donald Trump administration's decision to ban foreign students taking only online courses.

Jul 14, 2020

Google to invest Rs 75,000 crore in India to boost digitisation, says CEO Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that this will be done through a mix of equity investment, partnerships and an operational infrastructure ecosystem in India.

Jul 13, 2020

Paytm ropes in Anubhav Sharma, NCPI's UPI head amid rising competition from Google Pay, PhonePe

Anubhav Sharma, who was heading the Unified Payments Interface and Immediate Payment Service at the National Payments Corporations of India, has joined Paytm. However, his exact role at Paytm Payments Bank is yet to be ascertained.

Jun 22, 2020

Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledges $175 million to help black entrepreneurs

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced to give over $175 million towards supporting Black business owners, startup founders, job seekers and developers.

Jun 18, 2020

Online searches for Sushant Singh Rajput rise over 1400 percent: Study

The statistics were revealed by SEMrush study, which shows that on June 15 and June 16, the number of tweets on #SushantSinghRajput, #GoneTooSoon, and #ripsushant remained high.

Jun 17, 2020

Google to support Indian startups creating solutions for the new normal

In addition to the fresh call for applications, Google for Startups also announced the launch of 'Emerging stronger: Playbook' for startups to face the Covid-19 Challenge.

Jun 17, 2020

New Google tool to help users find Covid testing centres in India

The users will now see a new "Testing" tab on the search result page providing a list of nearby testing labs along with key information and guidance on the services.

Jun 12, 2020

Google Cloud, Deloitte global alliance to help Indian firms go digital

The Deloitte-Google Cloud alliance has developed over 40 industry solutions on Google Cloud platform for financial services, retail/consumer, manufacturing, life science and healthcare.

Jun 10, 2020