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In November last year Google announced it had reached agreement to buy Fitbit, which produces wearable fitness trackers and watches that communicate with a health monitoring app.

Google's plan to buy Fitbit comes under lens of EU competition...

Google has an operating system for smartwatches so Fitbit's user data will strengthen its already powerful position in...

4 Aug 2020 10:47 PM IST

Pressure has been growing both from the right and the leftand sometimes internallyto do something about the overwhelming dominance of the internet platforms. In this photo, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos. The four CEOs on Wednesday attended an antitrust hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee. (Photo | AFP)

Tech This Week | What we learned from the US antitrust inquiry

Lawmakers seem to be catching up with technology and so will regulation, so Big Tech should not take things for granted.

1 Aug 2020 4:17 PM IST

Thousands of Google employees walked out of work in protest in 2018 after The New York Times revealed Android creator Andy Rubin received $90 million in severance even though several employees had filed misconduct allegations against him. Shareholder lawsuits followed, and in 2019 Google launched a board investigation over how it handles sexual misconduct allegations. (Photo | AFP)

Google parent settles sexual misconduct lawsuit with $310M pledge...

Alphabet Inc. said Friday that it will prohibit severance packages for anyone fired or under investigation for...

26 Sept 2020 6:16 PM IST

The app relies on software developed by US technology giants Apple and Google, and in a bid to assuage privacy concerns, holds all the data generated on peoples phones and allows the information to be deleted easily. (Photo | AFP)

Britain's delayed virus app launched in England and Wales, after...

The app uses Bluetooth to alert users if they spend 15 minutes or more within two metres of a user who subsequently...

24 Sept 2020 10:41 PM IST

Sberbanks offerings include SmartMarket platform, on the lines of Apples AppStore and Google Play; virtual assistant Salute; TV streaming device SberBox; and SberPortal, Russias first multimedia smart display device that will go on sale in late 2020, and SberPrime subscriptions for films, TV series and songs in addition to grocery delivery service, like Amazon. (Wikimedia Commons - ÐÐ»Ð°Ð´Ð¸ÑÐ»Ð°Ð² Ð¤Ð°Ð»ÑŒÑˆÐ¸Ð²Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾Ð½ÐµÑ‚Ñ‡Ð¸Ðº)

Russian bank Sberbank enters tech space in major move to rival Google,...

The bank-turned-tech-firm is set to launch a host of digital products and services first in Russia and later abroad,...

24 Sept 2020 9:50 PM IST

The anticipated lawsuit against Google by the Justice Department could be the governments biggest legal offensive to protect competition since the ground-breaking case against Microsoft almost 20 years ago.

Antitrust case against Google gets ready as Trump administration seeks...

Lawmakers and consumer advocates say Google abuses its dominance in online search and advertising to kill competition...

24 Sept 2020 8:20 PM IST

TikToks interim CEO Vanessa Pappas proposed a meeting of safety officers from each company to work out details of a collective approach, which we believe will help us all improve safety for our users . (Photo | Pixabay - iXimus)

Come together to stop spread of suicide content, TikTok urges...

It is proposed that nine social media firms speedily identify violent, graphic content, including suicide, and swiftly...

22 Sept 2020 7:33 PM IST

Health officials initially targeted a 60% adoption rate for tracing apps, an optimistic goal based on an Oxford University study from April although researchers noted a lower uptake still helps if other measures, such as social distancing, are enforced. (Photo | AFP)

It's not even privacy that's the issue, yet Europe is cold to Covid...

A few countries have scrapped their tracing apps and others have found so few users that the technology is not very...

22 Sept 2020 5:32 PM IST

Google Pay has started its own Tez Shots Campaign which says, Score Runs to earn assured rewards worth up to Rs 1 lakh . Yet Play Store policies that got Paytm temporarily removed did not apply to Google Pay, the home-grown digital financial services firm alleged.

Paytm accuses Google of following double standards on cashback policy,...

Paytm said it was arm-twisted to comply with biased Play Store policies that are meant to artificially create...

20 Sept 2020 7:47 PM IST

Facebook said will also make it clearer which parts of its Workplace internal message board is for discussing contentious political or social issues, and carefully moderate those conversations. (Representative Image)

As things get heated on internal message boards, Facebook mulls...

A year ago on getting complaints about heated, abusive posts, Google told staff to be responsible and thoughtful on...

18 Sept 2020 5:42 PM IST

Among the concerns is a fear that under the so-called News Media Bargaining Code, news businesses will be able to somehow control their algorithms, Australias fair trade regulator Rod Sims said. Well engage with them and clarify that so that theres no way that the news media businesses can interfere with the algorithms of Google or Facebook, Sims said.

Australia's pay-for-news law: Facebook, Google won't have to give out...

The final draft of the bill could be introduced into Parliament in late October.

17 Sept 2020 10:52 PM IST

If the US-based platforms could not agree with Australian media businesses on pricing after three months, arbitrators would be appointed to make binding decisions.

Would encourage Google, Facebook to cooperate with government on news...

I think people from these companies understand that when I say something, I mean it, Prime Minister Scott Morrison told...

7 Sept 2020 5:01 PM IST