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Google's $2.1-billion Fitbit deal faces EU antitrust investigation
The deal, announced last November, would see Google compete with market leader Apple and Samsung in the fitness-tracking and smart-watch market
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'Absolutely false': CEO Pichai denies Google's link with Chinese military
In one of the harshest attacks on Google, two US representatives accused the company of helping China's military
 "'Absolutely false': CEO Pichai denies Google's link with Chinese military")
Google supercomputer, Nvidia GPUs break AI performance records
Google said it has built the worlds fastest machine learning (ML) training supercomputer that broke AI performance records in six out of eight industry-leading MLPerf benchmarks
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Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk made $115 billion this year
Their fast-growing wealth provides a breathtaking measure of their companies' economic might
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4 Big Tech CEOs under US Congress scanner on issues of competition, privacy
One of them is the world's richest individual (Bezos); another is the fourth-ranked billionaire (Zuckerberg)
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Google Stadia tests game streaming on a 4G or 5G mobile network
Google has announced a new Stadia experiment that lets users play games on mobile devices over 4G and 5G cellular networks
In prepared remarks, big tech CEOs defend themselves ahead of US testimony
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai to be grilled over the dominance in their fields of e-retail, smartphone software, social media and search.
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Google's new subsea cable to link US, United Kingdom and Spain
The cable, named Grace Hopper after the computer scientist, will also connect to Spain, becoming the first Google fiber line to land there, the company said in a statement
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Global tech show CES to be held online in 2021 over Covid-19 concerns
CES is the biggest annual event in Las Vegas and cancellation will be a blow to the city, where hotel prices soar and roads clog with traffic during the event
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Australian regulator sues Google for misleading about personal data use
Regulator says practice allowed Alphabet Inc unit to link the names and other ways to identify consumers with their behaviour elsewhere on the internet
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India Inc's deal activity at a 6-year low amid Covid-19 pandemic
Last year, India Inc sealed deals worth $88.88 billion in the January-July period, but this year the total transactions are $56.73 billion, fueled mainly by RIL-Jio deals
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Google extends work from home for employees till June 30 next year
In May, Google had also announced $1,000 allowances to cover equipment costs for employees working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Google working on smart tattoos that turn skin into living touchpad
Google is working on smart tattoos that, when applied to skin, will transform the human body into a living touchpad via embedded sensors
Top headlines: Mistry family in talks for funds, Google ups lending biz
Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj says he is certain that a V-shaped economic recovery will take a year.
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RIL's home team advantage
India's complicated e-commerce policy with restrictions on overseas investors may help keep out global retail and e-commerce players
US House panel hearing with big tech CEOs rescheduled for Wednesday
The panel has conducted a bipartisan investigation over the past year of the tech giants' market dominance and their effect on consumers
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Google getting serious about competing with Amazon in online shopping
As the coronavirus pandemic continues, the push to create an online shopping marketplace to compete with Amazon has taken on new urgency as consumers are avoiding stores
Google Messages gets emojis, voice message, other WhatsApp-like features
Take a look the Google Messages new features and how they work
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GPay a third party app provider, not payment system operator: RBI to HC
The bench said the matter requires detailed hearing as it affects other third party apps and listed it on July 22
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Google Assistant for KaiOS gets Google Lens-like text translation feature
The translate feature is currently available for English and several Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil
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