Google doubles down on India
Google has announced that use of its Google Pay platform has tripled to 67 million users in India.
Google has announced that use of its Google Pay platform has tripled to 67 million users in India.
Internet giant Google has announced some measures designed to better protect the privacy of users of its Chrome browser.
The stripped-down version of Google’s mobile search engine is now available on all Android phones.
As part of its ongoing bid to get the EU off its back Android will give European users a choice of default search provider from next year.
Revenues might well be booming again at Google, but it seems shareholders are slightly concerned by increased costs, which is one of the fastest growing columns in the spreadsheet.
The French regulator has swung the GDPR stick for the first time and landed it firmly on Google’s rump, costing the firm €50 million for transparency and consent violations.
A UK governmental review into threats to the press, principally from the internet, has led to calls for tech giants to pay for news content that appears on their platforms.
US President Donald Trump has tweeted that Google search results about him are biased in favour of leftwing media.
Many of the internet giants managed to put principles before profits when dealing with China, but willpower does seem to be fading as Silicon Valley attempts to work around the Great Chinese Firewall.
An Apple analyst reckons Google will pay Apple $3 billion to keep its position as the default search engine on its devices this year.
Internet giant Google has received its anticipated spanking from the European Commission, but the fine is significantly larger than expected.
Google has reached a settlement with Russian authorities over claims it has been abusing Android’s dominant position, but that might not be the end of it.
The European Commission’s seven-year investigation into Google Search is set to conclude within weeks, according to a Telegraph report, with a massive fine.
As teased earlier in the week the European Commission has formally accused Google of abusing its dominant position with Android, but Google doesn’t see what all the fuss is about.
Search giant Google is today implementing a major tweak to its search algorithm that will favour websites it deems to be ‘mobile-friendly’. Essentially this means that if your website is easy to view on a mobile device it may be more prominent in search results done from a smartphone. The tweak apparently doesn’t affect desktop or tablet searches.
A US-based start up that launched last year has been snapped up by Google for an estimated $30m as natural language search and summarisation captures the industry’s imagination.
Microsoft seems to be on a roll at the moment, this week adding Canadian Blackberry maker Research In Motion to its lengthening list of partners. The deal announced this week makes Microsoft’s Bing the default search engine and mapping tool on Blackberry handsets, but the appearance of Steve Ballmer alongside RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis at the Blackberry World conference in Orlando, set tongues wagging.
Late last week web giant Google improved its search capabilities with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Metaweb – an open database of ‘things’.
Apple added another string to its bow this week with the acquisition of a mobile search service which pitches itself as a “virtual digital assistant”.
Competition is getting heated in the real time search space as monster social network Facebook snapped up FriendFeed for an undisclosed sum.
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