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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.

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems from SolarWinds

Microsoft also had its own products leveraged to attack victims, said people familiar with the matter

Twitter to launch new verification process for blue badge from January 20

Twitter India on Friday said it will begin automatically removing the verified badge from inactive and incomplete accounts

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

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

India plays an important role in hunt for talent in digital age: Amazon CTO

Vogels says India has tremendous engineers, innovators and a great entrepreneurial spirit.

8 predictions by Amazon CTO on how tech will change our lives next year

Though predictions are always tough, Vogels sticks his neck out and makes eight predictions on how technology will continue to change our lives in the coming year

India's smartphone market up 42% in Oct with shipment of 21 mn units: IDC

This was driven by multiple online sale events

Twitter to purge Covid vaccine misinformation, label fake tweets

Twitter has announced to remove tweets making false or misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccinations from next week and label such fake claims from early next year.

Samsung denies rumours of Galaxy Note series discontinuation from next year

Samsung Electronics has denied rumours that it will discontinue the Galaxy Note series next year, saying the flagship phablet line will live on despite the rise of other premium devices

Twitter shuns Quote Tweet feature, returns to normal retweets

Twitter on Thursday announced to return back to the old way of retweets after realising that the new feature called Quote Tweet did not go well with the users.

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

Apple wants to make iPhone user tracking harder and Facebook is upset

Facebook previously told investors that Apple's changes, scheduled to go live early next year, will lead to significant headwinds because most of its advertisers are small businesses

A picture-perfect growth story: Instagram has grown by 66% in India

Its own mother brand Facebook grew by 16 per cent to 380 million users, while LinkedIn grew by 20 per cent during the same period

Centre of excellence in the works for gaming, visual effects: Javadekar

IIT Bombay to collaborate with govt on the project, I&B ministry has identified animation, visual effects, gaming and comics (AVGC) sector as sunrise industry

TikTok to place warning screens on videos that contain disturbing content

Chinese short video-making app TikTok will now place warning screens on graphic videos

Instagram testing new 'Lite' version of the app in India for Android phones

Instagram said it is testing 'Instagram Lite' app in India that occupies less space on Android phones and consumes lesser data, before it rolls out the offering globally

OPPO launches 'OPPO A15s' with selfie camera, 4230mAh battery for Rs 11,490

Smartphone maker OPPO on Wednesday launched a new A-series smartphone 'OPPO A15s' for Rs 11,490 in India

ISRO's technology transfer policy to get renewed focus and thrust

The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency under the Department of Space (DOS) has come out with revised technology transfer policy guidelines - 2020