Government Plans Action Against Google Over Abuse of Market Position

Government Plans Action Against Google Over Abuse of Market Position

India’s government plans to take action against Alphabet‘s Google after an antitrust watchdog last year found the group to have abused its market position by indulging in anti-competitive practices, a top IT minister told Reuters. India’s antitrust body in October fined Google $275 million (nearly Rs. 2,280 crore) in two…

Government Plans Action Against Google Over Abuse of Market Position

Google Agrees to Pay $39.9 Million Over Lawsuit for Misleading Location Tracking Practices

Google will pay Washington state $39.9 million (nearly Rs. 330 crore) to resolve a lawsuit accusing the Alphabet unit of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on Thursday. The settlement resolves claims that Google deceived people into believing they controlled how the search…

Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-style Conversational Product Search to its Online Store

Amazon Plans to Add ChatGPT-style Conversational Product Search to its Online Store

Amazon.com plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivalling efforts by Microsoft and Google to weave generative artificial intelligence into their search engines. The e-commerce giant’s ambitions appear in recent job postings reviewed by Bloomberg News. One listing seeking a senior software development engineer says the company…

Government Plans Action Against Google Over Abuse of Market Position

Google Agrees to Pay $8 Million to Settle Claims Against Deceptive Pixel 4 Ads

Google, a unit of Alphabet, has agreed to pay $8 million (roughly Rs. 65 million) to settle claims it used deceptive advertisements to promote the Pixel 4 smartphone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday. The search and advertising giant, which also makes Android smartphone software and owns YouTube,…

New Twitter CEO Appointment May Allow Elon Musk to Focus on Tesla, Remove Distraction

New Twitter CEO Appointment May Allow Elon Musk to Focus on Tesla, Remove Distraction

Elon Musk‘s selection of a new CEO for Twitter may remove a big distraction for the billionaire and allow him to focus more on Tesla, which has been struggling with a drop in demand for its electric vehicles, analysts said. Shares of the world’s most valuable electric vehicle maker, which…

Google Fined RUB 3 Million in Russia Over YouTube Videos on LGBT Propaganda: Reports

Google Fined RUB 3 Million in Russia Over YouTube Videos on LGBT Propaganda: Reports

A Russian court fined Alphabet‘s Google RUB 3 million (nearly Rs. 31 lakh) on Thursday for failing to delete YouTube videos it said promoted “LGBT propaganda” and “false information” about Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. Over the last year Moscow has levied dozens of fines against…

Government Plans Action Against Google Over Abuse of Market Position

Google Directed by Delhi High Court to Take Down YouTube Videos Defaming Indian Spices

The Delhi High Court has directed internet giant Google to block or take down from YouTube certain “defamatory” videos, which targeted major brands including ‘Catch’ by alleging that Indian spices contain urine and cow dung, in case they resurface. The high court said it was convinced that creation and uploading…

Apple Accuses Patent Owner Arendi of Revealing Secret Settlement Agreement Details in Google Trial

Apple Accuses Patent Owner Arendi of Revealing Secret Settlement Agreement Details in Google Trial

Apple on Wednesday accused patent owner Arendi S.A.R.L. of revealing secret information about a settlement agreement between them, including how much Apple paid, during Arendi’s separate infringement trial against Alphabet‘s Google. Apple asked a Delaware federal judge to impose monetary sanctions against Arendi and its law firm Susman Godfrey one…

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI CEOs Meet US President Biden at White House, Discuss AI Risks

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI CEOs Meet US President Biden at White House, Discuss AI Risks

President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet‘s Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such…

Google Fined RUB 3 Million in Russia Over YouTube Videos on LGBT Propaganda: Reports

Google Wins US Patent Trial Over Data-Retrieval Technology on Pixel Phones, Google Apps

Alphabet’s Google LLC won a jury trial on Tuesday in a long-running patent lawsuit in Delaware federal court over features in Google’s smartphones and apps. The jury decided that Luxembourg-based patent owner Arendi SARL’s patent was invalid and that Google did not infringe it, according to the verdict made public…