MOSCOW (RUSSIA): Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has initiated proceedings against US tech giant Google for allegedly abusing its dominant market position in video hosting services. The FAS said the case concerned Google’s YouTube unit and that the company’s actions had resulted in
US Justice Department investigators are worried about Google’s plan to block “cookies”. The search giant had been since then asking advertising industry executives whether the move by the company will hobble its smaller rivals, Alphabet Inc’s Google a year ago announced it would ban some cookies in its Chrome browser to increase user privacy. Over
NEW YORK (US) – In a bid to create 10,000 new full-time jobs as it takes on a pandemic-driven surge in internet traffic, Google will invest $7 billion in offices and data centers across the US this year, down from the $10 billion last year. The latest investment includes expansion plans for data centers in […]
FRANKFURT (GERMANY) – Google is teaming up with two global insurers to cover cyber breaches and related risks for businesses that use its cloud services, the first time a major provider has opened up such insurance to its clients, the companies said on Tuesday. Major insurers have been treading carefully on cyber risks for years, […]
NEW DELHI (INDIA) – Reliance Industries of India has tied up with Facebook Inc, Google and Infibeam to establish a national digital payment network, reported the Economic Times newspaper on Saturday. Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network that would rival the system operated […]
NEW YORK (US) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will resume accepting political advertisements in the United States from Feb. 24, according to an email to advertisers seen by Reuters. Google paused such advertisements in January following the violence at US Capitol and in the run up to the presidential inauguration. “We will continue to rigorously enforce […]
BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) – Google is joining hands with the European Investment Fund (EIF) and two similar organisations in Latin America and Asia to provide funding of $75 million to small- and medium-sized firms reeling from the impact of the pandemic. The funds are part of an $800 million initiative announced in March to tackle the […]
SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA)- Australia’s Seven West Media Ltd became the country’s first major news outlet to sign a licensing deal with Google. This move was taken, as the government pushes ahead with a law, prompting Google to pay media companies for content. At an earnings announcement on Tuesday, Seven, which owns a free-to-air television network and […]
CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA) – Australia is all prepared to bring in a key legislation to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers and broadcasters for content next week, said Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Friday. Australia is gearing up to become the first nation to make it mandatory for Google and Facebook to pay for news content […]
CANBERRA (AUSTRALIA) – Tech giant Google on Friday launched a platform in Australia providing news it has paid for. With this, it has struck its own content deals with publishers so as to show legislation proposed by Canberra to make payments is unnecessary. Having only rolled out in Brazil and Germany before, the News Showcase […]