Google India policy head Archana Gulati quits

Google India policy head Archana Gulati quits

Google India’s government affairs and public policy head Archana Gulati, who had joined the tech giant just five months back after quitting government service, has resigned from her post, sources said. An economics graduate and a Ph.D. from IIT-Delhi, Gulati was Joint Secretary (Digital Communications) at NITI Aayog, a government think tank that advises the […]

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U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech

U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a Texas law that bars large social media companies from banning or censoring users based on “viewpoint,” a setback for technology industry groups that say the measure would turn platforms into bastions of dangerous content. The 3-0 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in […]

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Google to roll out anti-disinformation campaign in some EU countries

Google to roll out anti-disinformation campaign in some EU countries

Google’s Jigsaw subsidiary will launch a campaign next week to tackle disinformation in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic about Ukrainian refugees based on research by psychologists at two British universities. Working with Jigsaw, the psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol have produced 90-second clips designed to “inoculate” people against harmful content on […]

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Google threatens employees with possible layoffs, ‘blood on streets’: Report

Google threatens employees with possible layoffs, ‘blood on streets’: Report

Google executives have reportedly warned employees of possible layoffs if the end quarter results don’t look good. This has created panic amongst employees that fear losing their jobs. A screenshot viewed by Insider reveals that Google Cloud sales leadership threatened its employees, saying there will be an “overall examination of sales productivity and productivity in general” […]

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Alphabet Inc Google down in the U.S. according to Downdetector

Alphabet Inc Google down in the U.S. according to Downdetector

At the peak of outage, more than 30,000 user reports had indicated issues with Google in the United States alone At the peak of outage, more than 30,000 user reports had indicated issues with Google in the United States alone Alphabet Inc’s Google services appeared to be back up after facing a brief global disruption […]

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Google, Google Maps and other services recover after global outage

Google, Google Maps and other services recover after global outage

Alphabet Inc’s Google was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Google search was not the only service impacted. The outage also impacted a range of other Google products such as Google Photos, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Duo, etc. The services appear to be back now. According to […]

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The word of the year is ‘Uncertainty’

The word of the year is ‘Uncertainty’

More than two years into Pandemic Times, technology is more popular, stronger and richer than it was before. Or is it? This year — and particularly the past few weeks — have complicated what was a fairly straightforward understanding of how most of the tech industry and America’s superstar digital companies were faring. Repeatedly over […]

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Google Play Store turns 10: Top 10 apps that defined the decade

Google Play Store turns 10: Top 10 apps that defined the decade

Google’s Play Store recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, on the occasion of which the service even rolled out its brand new logo. Originated in 2012, the Google Play Store has today evolved into a much wider platform than a simple app market. However, Google did release a list of the most popular apps of the […]

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Google Street View comes to India, with data from local partners 

Google Street View comes to India, with data from local partners 

A decade after it was prevented from capturing data for its Street View services, Google has launched its 360-degree interactive panorama feature for 10 Indian cities with data from local partners Tech Mahindra and Mumbai-based Genesis International. This has been made possible by the new National Geospatial Policy, 2021, which lets local companies collect this […]

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Google says it will delete location data when users visit abortion clinics

Google says it will delete location data when users visit abortion clinics

Google said Friday that it would delete abortion clinic visits from the location history of its users, in the company’s first effort to address how it will handle sensitive data in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The location data change will take place in the coming weeks, Jen Fitzpatrick, a […]

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