The internet users have seen an ad-free internet for some hours on Thursday night, December 8, 2022. At 8:04 pm Eastern Standard Time, tech giant Google posted that it was investigating reports of an issue with Google Ad Manager. The users can get into the program, and they were seeing error messages, with high latency […]
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Google has terminated thousands of YouTube channels in Brazil, Russia, and China as part of its investigation into coordinated influence operations. Google has terminated 5,197 YouTube channels and around 17 bloggers as part of the company’s ongoing investigation into coordinated influence operations linked to China. These YouTube channels and blogs have mostly uploaded spam content […]
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The UK’s media watchdog, Ofcom, said that new regulations might be required as it has concerns regarding the role of US technology giants such as Apple Inc., Google, and Facebook in controlling what type of news stories people see and how they react to them. Following a recent study of how news is consumed, Ofcom […]
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Google is starting to launch support for third-party payments on popular apps, including Bumble and Spotify. Google’s user-choice billion feature will also be expanding to more countries, including the United States. The user choice billing of Google was also announced for countries such as India previously, and is now also expanding to non-gaming apps starting […]
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Google’s parent company Alphabet, will pay 85 million dollars to end a consumer privacy lawsuit filed by the state of Arizona. The lawsuit alleged the search engine violated the Consumer Fraud Act of the state, and had misled internet users about its use of location data and data collection practices. The lawsuit accused Google of […]
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Google announced that it will be shutting down the Google Translate service in mainland China, as of the low usage in the country. According to Google, they are discontinuing Google Translate services in mainland China because of the low usage. According to the reports, the Hong Kong version of the translation service is not accessible […]
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The UK communications regulator will investigate cloud technology services that are dominated by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft combine for over 80 percent of total revenues in the public cloud infrastructure services market of the United Kingdom. Ofcom, the UK regulator conducting the study, can make recommendations to the UK government to change regulations or policy, […]
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Google faces a lawsuit of 24 billion dollars in Europe and the United Kingdom that accuses the technology company of anticompetitive conduct in the digital advertising market. Google, which is a key player in the online advertising market as well as being a dominant force in search, is accused of abusing its power in the […]
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Google now faces a UK trial over an estimated 1.1 billion dollars damages claim after a court has authorized a lawsuit that is alleging the technology company owned by Alphabet, overcharged 19.5 million customers for purchases in app store. The class action, which was certified by the Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleges Google abused company’s dominant […]
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According to the reports, four of the Democratic US lawmakers have called in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States for the purpose of investigating the companies including Apple and Google of Alphabet. They are now claiming that, the companies are now collecting and selling the personal data of the smartphone users and […]
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