Google uncovered plans to bring forth an open-source application programming interface (API) standard called Ripple Project that would help bring multi-functional small chips to various devices, including electric vehicles (EV). Since 2015, Google openly revealed that it was entering the gates of chip-making with its tiny radar chips that can keep score of sleep schedules, […]
On Tuesday, Alphabet’s unit, Google, was hit with a $169 million fine by France’s data privacy watchdog, Commission Nationale de L’information et des Libertés (CNIL), for implementing restrictions for users to decline cookies – online trackers. Facebook’s parent company, Meta Inc, was also caught in the regulatory crossfire, as it was also fined $67.82 million […]
A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants. The Tagansky District Court ruled that Google repeatedly neglected to remove the banned […]
Google parent company Alphabet is folding one of its subsidiaries back into Google as the startup’s founder steps down to confront a neurological disease. Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff said Thursday he’s leaving the company focused on urban planning technology because he “very likely” has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Sidewalk Labs was […]
Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. on announced Friday its latest innovative approach to tidying up the search engine’s U.S.-based offices by using multi tasker robots to fulfill different purposes, leading for general-purpose robots to assist humans on a daily basis. The team behind the machinery, developed by X, Alphabet’s innovation division, publicized that its prototype […]
Google announced on Tuesday the release of its latest feature directed at local journalism readers and reports to assist in organizing local news outlets. The latest feature will deliver more transparency to homegrown news content when individuals seek information concerning their community. According to the search engine, its latest feature is not a new one […]
A group of U.S. states filed Friday in a New York federal court an amended lawsuit against Google advertising monopoly with allegations of breaking antitrust laws by adopting strongarm strategies to empower its ads business. Alphabet’s unit has been under fire for its affiliated methodologies to heighten its supremacy in the advertising market, with regulatory […]
Google announced Tuesday plans to invest $750 million in Australia’s tech future in the upcoming five years, ten months after threats of pulling the search engine out of the country. This year has put the Big Tech giant’s affiliation with the Australian government under the spotlight, as Google threatened to extract its search engine from […]
Europe’s antitrust regulators marked their biggest win on Wednesday after Google lost an appeal on a $2.8 billion for attempting to monopolize shopping services while downgrading competitors’ services. The win signaled the European Commission’s first major triumph against one of the Big Tech giants out of three key court rulings aimed at heightening regulations on […]
Google’s custodian company, Alphabet Inc., exceeded on Monday its previous cap by hitting a $2 trillion market value, closing the trading day at $2,987 per share., according to Nasdaq. The Big Tech conglomerate surpassed last year’s market valuation by doubling its $1 trillion since January 2020. Now, in its third quarter (Q3), the tech behemoth […]