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According to two individuals acquainted with Google’s strategy, the firm is getting ready to file a petition with the Supreme Court in the coming days to challenge a decision made by the nation’s antitrust agency that will require it to alter the way it promotes its Android platform. In October, the Competition Commission of India […]
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai holds that India can be an example of creating open stacks using technologies such as the UPI and Aadhaar. He was speaking at a “Google For India 2022” event in the capital on Tuesday. “Look at what India has accomplished with the UPI, Aadhaar, and the payments stack, and […]
Now, a cellular data connection is required for Google Voice to automatically convert to Wi-Fi access. Better call quality will result from using this specific network type, the tech giant revealed on Friday. The internet giant Google has added a new “clever network switching” function to its phone service Google Voice with the purpose of […]
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined US company Google Rs 936.44 crore on Tuesday for the second time in less than a week, taking the total penalty to ₹ 2,274 core, for “misusing its dominant position” about Play Store policy. The CCI asked the tech giant to “stop engaging in unfair commercial practices”. After […]
Sources said on Friday that Alphabet Inc’s Google unit was ordered by the country’s Federal Court to pay A4 60 million in penalties because of misleading users on collection of their personal data. The court found that Google had misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 […]
Celebrating the 113th birth anniversary of famous Malayalam poet Balamani Amma, Google illustrated a Doodle by Kerela-based artist Devika Ramachandran. The Doodle showcases Balamani Amma composing a poem and sitting by a window, with several books around her. Balamani published more than twenty anthologies of prose, translations, and poetry. She received many accolades, including Padma […]
It is not for nothing that Google has emerged a verb in itself! To mark the ARMY’s ninth anniversary, the browser has made a huge change to the “BTS” search page. Onwards July 9, you get to see a shower of purple hearts on your browser each time you “google” the K-Pop craze. There is […]
Google India announced the launch of Startup School on Wednesday, with the goal of guiding 10,000 startups in the country’s tier II and III cities. Startup School is a series of guided online training designed to provide tools, products, and knowledge to early-stage startup founders. The curriculum will include instructional modules on topics such as […]
Google Doodle is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the world’s most famous 15 year old author, and her account of horrors of holocaust, written by Jewish German – Dutch diarist Anne Frank. To honor her memory, the search engine has featured a slideshow of real excerpts from her diary, that narrate first hand experience of […]
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is currently in the final stages of discussions with Google, in order to get a unique geotag for every property in the city. The two entities are set to sign an MoU in this regard soon. This agreement will include every property – commercial, residential, chawls as well as special buildings […]
Google CEO and Padma Bhushan recipient Sundar Pichai is celebrating his 50th birthday today. Here’s a timeline of his career from IIT, Kharagpur, to becoming the CEO of the search giant Google. Completing his B.tech in metallurgic engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology IIT and M.S. in material science from Stanford University, he joined […]
Refreshed by your Monday morning coffee? The godfather of espresso machines deserves a standing ovation for it. Search giant Google came up with a doodle made from coffee by an artist named Olivia When, to celebrate the 171st birth anniversary of Angelo Moriondo, credited for patenting the earliest known espresso machine in 1884. Born on […]
Two dozen new languages including eight Indian languages have been added to Google Translate, a favourite translation tool of many users. Following this update, Google Translate now supports 133 languages used around the globe. Besides Sanskrit, the other Indian languages in the latest version of Google Translate are Assamese, Bhojpuri, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Mizo and […]
The day of an emotion that drives the human race in this tough world, that keeps their heart-thumping and makes this world a much more liveable place – the day of love, “The Valentine’s Day”. Throughout the year, Google never misses out on a chance to maintain its tradition of introducing little interactive games for […]
In what has emerged as a well-oiled operation, the Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Narmada district police in Gujarat has arrested a woman from Delhi who allegedly ran a racket selling fake degrees from various universities across the country. A former employee of Google, the arrested woman Beula Nand from Chhattisgarh holds a Diploma in […]
Every year, Google comes out with its ‘Year in Search’ list, reflecting the top queries being asked in each country, and the 2021 list is as intriguing as ever. Interestingly, a tough math problem made it to India’s list: what is the factorial of 100? This was the second most searched query on Google for […]
A specialized vessel is required for laying underwater internet cable by plowing up to the height of a two-storey building for thousands of miles undersea. Here’s how the tech giants, Google and Facebook are doing it. Both Tech Giants invest in cable projects along with a consortium of other companies, Google has invested in nineteen […]
Reliance Jio made an announcement on Friday that it has put off the launch of JioPhone Next, the low-priced smartphone developed in partnership with Google, to Diwali. The phone was initially scheduled to be launched on September 10 on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. The company further said in a statement that both the companies […]
Google has dedicated its homepage to celebrate 107th birth anniversary of India’s first women pilot, Sarla Thukral. Sarla Thukral was India’s first lady to fly an aircraft. She earned an aviation pilot license at a young age of 21 in 1936 and flew a Gypsy Moth solo in a traditional saree. Sarla was born in […]
It’s been a heady two weeks for Indian cricket in Sri Lanka where the Asia Cup was staged. First, the thumping win over Pakistan before Rohit Sharma’s troops made a farce of the final by not even getting Sri Lanka a chance to compete. From a marketing perspective, while such one-sided encounters leave fans craving […]
