Google agreed to pay $360 million to Activision to stop competition, Epic Games alleges

November 18, 2022 05:00 am | Updated 05:00 am IST – OAKLAND, Calif. The Google agreements with developers were described in earlier versions of the lawsuit, but the exact terms had not been revealed. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Alphabet Inc’s Google has struck deals with at least 24 big app developers to stop them […]

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Google, Apple rivals to launch ad campaign for bill against Big Tech

A group of small tech companies this week will launch an advertising campaign urging lawmakers to pass landmark legislation that would diminish the power of the country’s largest internet giants. The small companies, which compete with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., are hoping to push Congress to pass the […]

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Google Play adds UPI Autopay support for subscription-based payments in India

Google Play has just announced its own UPI-based automatic payment option for users in India who pay for in-app subscriptions. The new Google Play UPI Autopay payment option will help users make recurring payments with ease using any UPI application that supports the feature. This should ensure some relief for users given recurring payments have […]

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Google to pay nearly $400 million to settle state location-tracking probe

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states in connection with an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. State attorneys general announced the settlement on November 14, 2022, calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S. history. | Photo Credit: AP Alphabet’s Google will pay $391.5 million to settle […]

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Five interesting things you can do with Google Assistant

Google Assistant is a powerful tool to perform tasks like making phone calls, setting reminders, or getting directions. But these are only the basics that everyone’s likely already familiar with — the voice assistant is actually capable of so much more — some of which you may even be surprised to hear about. Today we […]

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Apple’s web search technology engineers leave for Google, says report

A number of employees who are part of Apple’s search team have reportedly left the company to join Google in a setback to the former’s ambitions to develop a search engine that rivals the latter. According to a report by The Information, the employees who had left were founders of the company Laserlike, which Apple […]

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Google rolling out third-party payments to Spotify, Bumble

Google today announced that it is beginning rolling out support for third-party payments on popular apps Spotify and Bumble. The tech giant’s user-choice billing will also be expanding to more countries, including the US. Google’s User Choice billing was also announced for countries like India previously and is now also expanding to non-gaming apps starting […]

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Renault, Google expand pact to make cars ‘like mobile phones’

Renault SA is deepening its collaboration with Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a bid to extend capabilities on remote software updates to new models such as the electric Megane E-Tech and Austral. “We want to make the car an intelligent object that learns and one that can be upgraded over the air like a mobile phone,” […]

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