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Millions of business listings on Google Maps filled with fake addresses
Google's failure to eliminate phony listings puts legitimate businesses at the risk of threats and blackmail by competitors or con artists
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It will be India vs England in the final of ICC World cup: Sundar Pichai
Describing himself as a passionate cricket fan, the 46-year-old head of California-based internet giant said that when he came to the US, he found baseball a bit challenging
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Unintended consequences if you regulate us for the sake of it: Google CEO
According to media reports, the US Department of Justice is preparing to open a case against Google for potential anti-trust violations
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Pichai cautions against regulating tech giants just 'for the sake of it'
The DOJ and Federal Trade Commission are said to be dividing up responsibility for oversight of Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon to probe their market dominance
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Restricting cross-border data flow will hurt economy: Internet companies
Asia Internet Coalition says draft e-commerce policy must not classify data as a community resource.
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Google's conduct may result in denial of mkt access for competing apps: CCI
The order follows a complaint in which it was alleged that the search giant indulged in anti-competitive practices by mandating smartphone
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In 2018, Google took down 30 lakh fake business profiles from its platform
More than 250,000 of fake business profiles that it removed were reported to Google by users
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Stay safer: How Google Maps will alert you when your cab goes off route
Earlier in June, the feature was being tested exclusively in India
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Google appears to have misused dominance in India: Competition watchdog
The Indian case is similar to one Google faced in Europe, where regulators imposed a $5 billion fine on the company for forcing manufacturers to pre-install its apps on Android devices
Huawei awaits nod for Google Android usage after Trump partially lifts ban
Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump softened his stance on the Chinese tech giant
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Meet Aparna Sinha, the powerful India-born woman technologist at Google
Sinha leads the team for the tech giant's cloud computing project Kubernetes and newly announced Anthos product
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Budget 2019: Slew of measures to give push to digital payments adoption
Govt has proposed no charge or merchant discount rate for companies with over Rs 50 cr turnover accepting payments digitally
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Google reaches out to small and medium businesses with Google Pay platform
The company is rapidly scaling up their outreach among small businesses, with almost two out of three transactions coming in from non-metro locations
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp calls for Google breakup in Australia
In a petition to Australian regulators, News Corp's local subsidiary complained that 'Google enjoys overwhelming market power in both online search and ad tech services.'
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France uses strict EU privacy law first time, fines Google 50 mn euros
Google allegedly made it too difficult for users to understand and manage preferences on how their personal information is used.
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Salinger: The one-trick pony sensation
The more Salinger tried to hide, the more insistent America became
Google wins $1.3 bn tax bill case as French court strike down govt demands
The Paris administrative court ruled that Google Ireland Limited was not subject to corporate and value-added taxes for the period 2005-2010
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Google's marketing of children's apps misleads parents, consumer groups say
The groups also said some apps appeared to violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a federal law that prohibits sites and apps from collecting personal information from children
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Google to invest $1 bn to build new offices in New York; hire 7,000 workers
The announcement comes weeks after both Amazon and Apple made known their individual expansion projects in the Big Apple
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After Amazon, Google to establish campus in New York at $1 bn investment
Earlier in March, Google had announced a $2.4 billion purchase of the Manhattan Chelsea Market
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