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Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., has announced agreements to pay publishers in Australia (AP)

EXPLAINER: What's up between Google, Facebook and Australia?

Google has announced agreements to pay publishers in Australia while Facebook said it blocked users in the country from...

18 Feb 2021 10:55 PM IST

Facebook made the aggregated survey information from its users available at https://dataforgood.fb.com/covid-symptoms-map/, while the data for the all responses including from Google users will be published on Carnegie Mellon page covidcast.cmu.edu soon.

Coronavirus 'heat map' visualises spread of COVID-19 from Facebook,...

Carnegie Mellon researchers said they received about one million responses a week from Facebook users, and 600,000 from...

20 April 2020 8:55 PM IST

Granted that Google and Facebook give news content legs. They take the story beyond the geographical limits of the newspapers reach. But if the disseminator makes nearly all the profits and shares mere peanuts with the producer of the content, how long will news production survive?

Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide

Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will...

20 April 2020 3:54 PM IST

In addition to Facebook, LeadCloaks software also targeted a number of other technology companies including Google, Oath, WordPress, Shopify, and others. (Photo | AFP)

Indian techie running deceptive coronavirus ads, fake news on...

Basant Gajjar's company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software to sneak fake news and scams past Facebook and...

10 April 2020 4:23 PM IST

Lack of adequate security has been a huge and seemingly endless problem with Zoom.

Google bans Zoom on devices used by staff

Employees may continue to use the videoconferencing app to connect to friends and family over browser or mobile

9 April 2020 4:20 PM IST

Two years ago, YouTube began testing panels providing vetted sources of information on topics prone to bogus assertions such as the world being flat.

YouTube adds fact-check panels to videos in US to curb spread of...

Fact-check information panels highlight credible findings by third-parties so YouTube viewers can make informed...

29 April 2020 3:13 PM IST

Googles Play Store has apps with child abuse material, links to WhatsApp groups which are encrypted are found on Twitter, the NCPCR said, indicating the need for the tech-enabled companies to do more proactively to shut down child sexual abuse material.

Searches for child sexual abuse material spike, NCPCR sends notice to...

A recent report by India Child Protection Fund showed that there has been a surge in searches for child sexual abuse...

26 April 2020 10:51 PM IST

Quarterly updates are due this week from Google parent Alphabet, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, all of which will see an impact from the pandemic.

Big Tech firms try to highlight covid efforts to burnish image as they...

Quarterly results looming, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft do not want to be seen as having cashed in on the...

26 April 2020 10:22 PM IST

Some 300 leading academics urged governments to dismiss the centralised approach to an app they were backing, saying it risked undermining public trust. They said an approach being developed by Apple and Google, whose operating systems run most of the worlds smartphones, was more privacy friendly. (Photo | AP)

Germany backs Google and Apple's covid app, after privacy concerns...

Backing for a pan-European app that was to keep data on a central server was stopped over criticism from a nation...

26 April 2020 9:40 PM IST

Like the detection of traffic jams or traffic measurement on Google Maps, the new reports will use aggregated, anonymised data from users who have activated their location history. (Representative Image)

Sharing location with Google? Now it will be displayed on site to aid...

Reports on users' movements in 131 countries will be published on a website and will chart movement trends by geography,...

3 April 2020 4:50 PM IST

The Google News Initiative is using its extensive CrossCheck network to help newsrooms respond quickly and address escalating content that is causing confusion and harm.

Boom Live is Google's partner in India in fight against coronavirus...

The tech giant has committed USD 6.5 million worldwide to help factcheckers through its Google News Initiative

3 April 2020 2:01 PM IST

HTC hasnt been able to reach its shipment target for this year.

HTC could be up for sale; Google, Samsung could hop on

HTC has been steadily falling since a few years.

29 Aug 2017 10:30 AM IST