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Google is promising to add some of its nifty features such as pins, reminders, and category bundles in its Gmail service.

Not only Google+, say bye to Inbox too

Google is reportedly planning to unveil the upgraded Gmail at its annual Google I/O 2019 event.

20 Mar 2019 11:02 AM

He went further when asked about social media at a joint press briefing with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro. (Photo:AP)

Trump's scathing attack on social media giants, says 'they are politically biased'

President Donald Trump stepped up claims of political bias by Big Tech firms on Tuesday in a fresh assault on Silicon Valley.

20 Mar 2019 10:39 AM

Last month, the EU accused Alphabet’s Google, Facebook and Twitter of falling short of promises to combat fake news. (Photo: AP)

Tech giants will have to be regulated in future

Introducing regulations would work better if online platforms, such as Google and Facebook, worked with authorities.

19 Mar 2019 11:29 AM

Google introduced a new link on its search results which aims to drive more traffic to price comparison rivals. (Photo: AP)

Google seeking to promote rivals to stave off EU antitrust action

Google had used its search engine market power to unfairly promote its own comparison shopping service.

19 Mar 2019 10:51 AM

The feature had been available on the Android version since 2017.

Ok Gboard, translate as I type

There are 103 languages which are supported in this integrated of Google Translate in Gboard.

17 Mar 2019 11:21 AM

It is to be noted that the patent associates the foldable screen technology to a ‘computing device’ and not smartphone in particular.

Google is working on a foldable device

Google’s latest patent application hints at the company’s interest in building a device that folds.

17 Mar 2019 10:28 AM

Last year, Vestager slapped a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.91 billion) fine on Google for using its popular Android mobile operating system to block rivals.

Google faces third EU antitrust fine next week: source

Online mapping services and others could also soon be in the spotlight.

16 Mar 2019 10:05 AM

The court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Sagar Suryavanshi seeking directions to the EC to regulate fake news in the form of paid political ads on social media.

Will regulate political ads during polls: EC tells HC

The EC’s counsel Pradeep Rajagopal made the statement.

16 Mar 2019 2:16 AM

Spotlight Stories started as a group within Motorola.

Google is killing its VR film studio Spotlight Stories

With the shutdown, Spotlight Stories employees will be given a chance to look for new positions within the company.

15 Mar 2019 10:55 AM

Android Q brings in a number of additional privacy and security features for users, enhancements for foldables, new APIs for connectivity, new media codecs and camera capabilities, NNAPI extensions, Vulkan 1.1 support, faster app startup, and more.

Android Q beta is here!

Android Q Beta 1 is now available for early adopters along with a preview SDK for developers.

15 Mar 2019 10:44 AM

Last year Google said it was no longer vying for a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the US Defense Department, in part because the company’s new ethical guidelines do not align with the project.

Google's work in China benefiting China's military

Google said it has “no plans” to relaunch a search engine in China, though it is continuing to study the idea.

15 Mar 2019 9:45 AM

The new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer does not search over a larger decoder graph and instead consists of a beam search through a single neural network. (Photo: ANI)

Now, dictate Google Gboard even when offline

Google has updated Gboard’s speech recognizer to mimic the keyboard dictation system.

14 Mar 2019 10:43 AM

Allo as a standalone app is officially dead.

Google Allo is officially dead

If you have been using the app, you still have the chance to export your chats.

13 Mar 2019 11:24 AM

Once a comment is identified as toxic, Tune can adjust the visibility of such comments.

This AI-enabled Chrome extension hides toxic comments to reduce your stress

Tune’s Perspective AI learns to flag negative comments from thousands of people labelling millions of posts as spam.

13 Mar 2019 10:56 AM

Big tech has been criticized by politicians in the United States and in Europe in recent years over issues ranging from Facebook losing track of users’ data to how Google ranks the results of searches.

UK needs to meet Facebook, Google competition with new rules: report

Smaller companies should also have access to the data that social media platforms hold on their users.

13 Mar 2019 9:38 AM

Democratic US Senator Elizabeth Warren. (Photo: AP)

Facebook pulls but then restores Warren ads aimed at Big Tech

“We removed the ads because they violated our policies against the use of our corporate logo,” Facebook told AFP.

12 Mar 2019 5:32 PM

Australian watchdogs are seen as unlikely to recommend that Google is split (Photo: AP)

Murdoch's News Corp calls for Google breakup

News Corp's local subsidiary complained that "Google enjoys overwhelming market power in both online search and ad tech services.

12 Mar 2019 5:28 PM

Efforts to curtail Google’s market dominance around the world had failed because of the search engine operator’s record of “avoiding and undermining regulatory initiatives and ignoring private contractual arrangements”. (Photo: AP)

News Corp's Australian arm calls for Google breakup

Google said it was a “mistaken premise” to suggest it had “market power in search, search advertising, and news media referrals”.

12 Mar 2019 3:05 PM

He allegedly told his hometown police that he'd get violent if his Google confrontation didn't go well.

Man threatens Google, arrested in California

Police say the 33-year-old Waterville, Maine, man was upset because his YouTube channel had been shut down.

12 Mar 2019 10:19 AM

Google says that it has made changes recently to take a hard line against sexual misconduct.

Google paid former exec USD 35 million after harassment claim

One portion of the minutes showed that Singhal received two USD 15 million payments.

12 Mar 2019 9:37 AM

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