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Google says Microsoft balking at turning over documents in antitrust fight

Editorial Bureau July 30, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) – Highlighting that Microsoft has failed to comply with a subpoena, according to a court filing unsealed late Thursday, Alphabet’s Google has asked a judge hearing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the search and advertising giant to compel

Tech

Google, Facebook to set aside initial iOS fears with big revenue jump

Editorial Bureau July 27, 2021

Wall Street expects Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc are likely to report a surge in digital ad sales this week after smaller rivals declared soaring demand, boosting expectations that the impact of Apple Inc’s privacy changes has not yet been witnessed. Together, Google and Facebook generated about $70 billion in revenue last quarter through digital […]

Tech

Google widens India cloud services with new infrastructure push

Editorial Bureau July 15, 2021

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is ramping up cloud infrastructure in India with a second cluster of data centres in and around capital New Delhi to meet increasing customer demands in a key growth market, senior company executives said. The Google cloud region in Delhi and its outskirts is the US tech giant’s […]

Europe

Google’s copyright talks with publishers, French anti-trust decision pending

Editorial Bureau July 8, 2021

PARIS (FRANCE) -France’s anti-trust watchdog head Isabelle de Silva has informed that it will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news content. Antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how

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US states level allegation on Google for ‘unlawfully’ protecting Play Store monopoly

Editorial Bureau July 8, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) -Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general sued Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday, alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones. The allegations about Google’s Play Store stem from an investigation involving nearly every US state that

Europe

Antitrust inquiry on unfair advertising, Google again under scanner

Editorial Bureau June 22, 2021

BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) – An investigation into whether Google’s digital advertising business gives the Alphabet unit an unfair advantage over rivals and advertisers has brought the company under EU antitrust spotlight again. The European Union competition enforcer’s move marks a new front against Google and follows more than 8 billion euros ($9.5 billion) in

Tech

Protests over ‘inequities’, Google drops engineering residency

Editorial Bureau June 22, 2021

A long-running program in Google that according to the participants enforced “systemic pay inequities,” will be shut by the company. According to the correspondence received by a news agency, the program was aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds. Google confirmed it was replacing the Engineering Residency with a new initiative, saying

Tech

Google in search of new measure of skin tones to curb bias in products

Editorial Bureau June 19, 2021

Alphabet Inc’s Google told this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color. At issue is a six-color scale known as Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST), which […]

UK

Deleting user-tracking feature, Google to coordinate with Britain’s regulator

Editorial Bureau June 11, 2021

LONDON (UK) – Alphabet Inc’s Google has informed that its Chrome browser would not be able to eliminate user-tracking technology that is important to advertisers. it added that that the same is not possible without sign-off from Britain’s competition regulator. the Acca proposal has the mentioned the recent developments in the issue. The company said […]

Tech

Antitrust hearing witness list will have Amazon, Google executives

Editorial Bureau June 11, 2021

WASHINGTON (US) – A hearing on the congressional testimony by Sonos CEO Patrick Spence accusing Google and Amazon of using their dominance of search and online retail, respectively, to subsidise the smart speaker market and, potentially, dominate the market for other smart home devices has been scheduled before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust