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Google offers free weekly coronavirus tests to 90,000 US employees
Google is offering free weekly Covid-19 tests to 90,000 employees in the US
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Google blames Gmail, YouTube outage on error in user indentification system
On Tuesday, Google's Gmail service had another disruption. The company attributed this to an issue with data migration
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Google to shut down its light-weight IoT version of android early next year
Google has announced that Android Things will shut down early next year.
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Vistara allows passengers to book their tickets directly on Google
Passengers can now directly search and book tickets on its flights using Google
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Google says Australian law on paying for news is unworkable and biased
A Google executive said on Friday that a proposed Australian law to make digital platforms pay for news was unworkable and its proposed arbitration model was biased toward media businesses.
Google hit with third lawsuit as US states sue over search dominance
The complaint filed on Thursday focuses on Google's search business and search advertising, as well as what they said was an effort by Google to use special agreements to also dominate newer techs
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Texas suing Google over alleged anti-competitive ad tech practices
In a tweet on Wednesday, Texas Attorney General said his suit centres on the lucrative market for digital ads, where Google obtains most of its revenue
Google acquires Neverware, a firm that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
Google has acquired Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks, for an undisclosed sum.
Google secretly gave Facebook perks, data in ad deal: US states
By Paresh Dave and Katie Paul
Facebook, Google entered illegal deals to undermine competition: US lawsuit
Facebook and Google used a series of deals to consolidate their market power illegally, Texas and nine other states alleged in a lawsuit against Google
Best of BS Opinion: Vivad Se Vishwas scheme, Das' 2 years as RBI guv & more
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
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Google crash: What are the alternatives for users in case of future outage
Google serves 3.5 billion users, which is approximately half the world population
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Downside of dominance
Outage of Google's services shows the risk of concentration
Covid-19: Google now eyeing flexible work week; delays office return
But even as it extends the remote work period for most of its staff, Google is laying out a series of proposed changes that may substantially alter how its employees work
Google services YouTube, Gmail, Drive recover after global outage
"We're back up and running!," the video platform said in a tweet
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Tech giants risk EU fines up to 10% of turnover if norms violated: Report
The proposed rules, to be announced by EU digital chief Thierry Breton and EU antitrust czar Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday, are likely to affect Amazon.com, Apple , Facebook and Alphabet unit Google
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Google services Gmail, YouTube and Docs inaccessible to users worldwide
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages of major websites, reported a spike in complaints about Google services crashing at 5pm in India
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Google delays return to office and eyes 'flexible work week' for employees
Google will allow its employees to work from home until September next year, extending the return to the office by a few months
Amazon Pay revenue grew 64% to Rs 1,370 crore, losses increase 61%
After the closure of the financial year 2019-20, the firm has revised authorised share capital from Rs 6,000 crore to Rs 16,000 crore in an extraordinary general meeting held in September this year
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Decoded: Why Facebook is being sued by the US government and 48 states
Facebook may have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
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