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Google

Google is a division of the parent company Alphabet. Google is the world’s biggest search engine with greater than 90% of the world’s total search marketshare. Company’s primary revenue source in advertising through what it calls Google Ads.

Google was started by Sergey Brin and Larry page in the dotcom era of 1999 and went public in 2004. It has been involved in many controversies since than and the biggest of them have been around user piracy and collecting too much information about users and using that data for profit in unethical ways.

Current CEO is Sundar Pichai who hails from India. The latest controversy about the company has been its blacklisting of right wing sites in search results. Prior to that Google+ was shut down out of data leak concerns.

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News Reports

Indian Government warns Google Chrome users to update the browser immediately due to security risk

OpIndia Staff -
As per the notification by CERT-In and Google, these vulnerabilities affect users running older versions of Google Chrome browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. Specifically, if the browser version is below 134.0.6998.88/.89 on Windows and Mac or 134.0.6998.88 on Linux, the system is at risk.
News Reports

Google opens ‘Ananta’ in Bengaluru, one of its largest state-of-the-art campuses globally

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Google has opened its new campus, Ananta (meaning limitless in Sanskrit), in Bengaluru.
Economy and Finance

Google to set up its fifth Safety Engineering Centre in Hyderabad, signs agreement with Telangana government

ANI -
Technology giant Google is all set to establish a Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) in Hyderabad soon, which will be second in Asia and fifth one globally
News Reports

Court in Russia hits Google with mind-boggling fine of 2 Undecillion Rubles, a number with 36 zeros, for banning Russian media outlets

OpIndia Staff -
A court in Russia has ordered Google to pay an astronomical amount of 2 undecillion Rubles, or around 20 decillion USD for blocking several media outlets.
News Reports

Apple ordered to pay €13 billion and Google fined €2.4 billion by EU Court of Justice in separate cases: Know details

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The European Court of Justice fined Apple €13 billion for back taxes in Ireland and Google €2.4 billion for market abuse, marking significant steps in regulating tech giants in the EU.
News Reports

‘Yes, your smartphones are listening to conversations’: Facebook, Google partner admits that microphones are used for targeted ads without knowledge of users

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Cox Media Group admitted during a pitch deck to investors that its "Active Listening" software uses Artificial Intelligence to "capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations." The company explained that voice data can then be paired with behavioural data to target in-market customers for ads.
News Reports

Elon Musk says Google has ‘search banned’ Donald Trump in US, Republican Senator orders inquiry: What we know about the autocomplete feature

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Some social media users pointed out that the autocomplete feature of the Google search engine could not be compared to the actual search results
News Reports

Apple engaged in abusive conduct and practices, reveals CCI’s anti-trust probe, slams iPhone maker’s dominance in apps market

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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been investigating Apple Inc since 2021 for abusing its dominant position.
News Reports

Google Translate adds 110 new languages including Awadhi, Chhattisgarhi, Marwadi and Pakistani Punjabi using PaLM 2 AI language model

OpIndia Staff -
Google is adding support for 110 new languages to Google Translate, the company announced on Thursday
Tech

Big Tech against children’s online safety? Google, Meta spearhead over $1 mn lobbying efforts to oppose NY bills aimed at protecting children online

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The lobby effort is being conducted against the two bills that would prohibit the use of algorithmic recommendations on children and the collection and sale of personal data from users under the age of 18.
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