San Francisco : Google will invest $13 billion in building new data centres and offices in over a dozen states in the US in 2019, the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has said. In a blog post late on Wednesday, Pichai ...
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Gurugram : Google and OnePlus were the only brands which shipped all their smartphones with the latest version of Android OS in 2018, a new report said on Monday. According to market research techARC, 32 models of smartphones were launched ...
Read More »Google slammed for risking Android with infected PNG images
San Francisco : Google is reportedly being slammed by security experts following the disclosure of a vulnerability that has exposed Android to the risk of being compromised by infected images. Revealed in Google’s February security update, the flaw leaves Android ...
Read More »Alphabet logs $39.3 bn in revenue on Google ad business
San Francisco : Riding on Google’s robust ad business, the parent company Alphabet has logged $39.3 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2018 — an increase of 22 per cent from the same period a year ago. Google’s ...
Read More »Google deletes 29 apps that steal users’ information
San Francisco : Google has deleted 29 malicious “beauty camera” apps that were sharing pornographic content and forwarding users, particularly in India, to phishing websites to steal their information. Some of these Android apps have been downloaded millions of times ...
Read More »Google introduces spam protection for text messages
San Francisco : Google has begun rolling out its spam protection feature for Messages after almost over six months of developing it for Android users. Based on reports from a handful of tipsters, that spam protection feature is now going ...
Read More »Google uses mobile-first indexing for most pages in search results
San Francisco : Google has said that its algorithms now use mobile-first indexing for over half of the pages shown in search results globally. Google introduced mobile-first indexing about two years ago as it found that an increasing number of ...
Read More »France to slap Apple, Google with new digital tax in 2019
San Francisco : With efforts to reform a European Union tax law not bringing the desired results, France is going to introduce from January 1, 2019 a digital tax on technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, the ...
Read More »Australia recommends strengthening regulation of Facebook, Google
Canberra : The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Monday proposed measures to counter the dominant market positions of Google and Facebook and strengthen monitoring on their access to information, advertising and consumers personal data. The regulatory body, which ...
Read More »Google adds support for hashtags on Maps for Android devices
San Francisco : Google has released support for hashtags on Maps for Android devices that would help users to discover recommended as well as new places. The company confirmed support for hashtags rolled out globally on Android devices, TechCrunch reported ...
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