Tag: Google

San Francisco: Google has announced to bring its video chat service Meet to Gmail on Android and iOS smartphones so that people can easily join video meetings from their inbox on the go. In the coming weeks, Google users will soon notice a new Meet tab on the phone’s Gmail app where they can see […]

New Delhi: Google on Wednesday expanded its programme to support startups working on the solutions to solve real-life challenges towards the new normal post-COVID-19 landscape in India. Google for Startups has opened applications for the new batch of Google for Startups Accelerator, with a special focus on health-tech, fin-tech, edu-tech, agri-tech, retail and SaaS startups, […]

San Francisco: A team of Google researchers has created a new technology to take the immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences to a new level. New research shows the ability to record, reconstruct, compress, and deliver high-quality immersive light field videos, lightweight enough to be streamed over regular Wi-Fi. “We’re making this […]

San Francisco: To help users decide whether they should believe what they see, Google has started showing a fact-check label under the thumbnail image results that people search. “When you tap one of these results to view the image in a larger format, you’ll see a summary of the fact check that appears on the […]

San Francisco: As traditional media outlets ask social media giants to give their dues for using their news content on their platforms, Google has revealed that news publishers keep over 95 per cent of the digital advertising revenue they generate when they use Google Ad Manager to show ads on their websites. Thousands of news […]

San Francisco: Google has announced features coming to Google Assistant, with the most notable feature for Apple users being the ability to locate a lost iPhone using the digital assistant.…

San Francisco: Google on Monday said it is piloting a new feature in partnership with local news publishers to understand how COVID-19 is impacting different communities. The company said it would test the News feature in a few geographic areas in the US and Canada in the COVID-19 special section of the app, where users […]

New Delhi: In a bid to help Indian students create solutions for real-world problems, Google on Wednesday announced three teams as winners of its Build for Digital India programme launched in partnership with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) last year. The three winning teams were selected from over 7,000 students from more […]

San Francisco: Google on Wednesday announced a new feature that will make it easy to find quick facts about what people see on Google images in the form of a Knowledge Graph. Starting first in the US, the feature would include people, places or things related to the image from the Knowledge Graph’s database of […]

Seoul: Google’s video-sharing platform YouTube will cooperate with South Korea to closely monitor and prevent the spread of fake news and illegal content. Google’s Senior Vice President Neal Mohan made the comments during a videoconference with Han Sang-hyuk, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The remarks came after Han requested such cooperation, considering fake […]

New Delhi: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday announced a Google for India digitisation fund through which, the company will invest Rs 75,000 crore or approximately $10 billion over the next five to seven years to help India go digital. “We will do this through a mix of equity investment, partnerships and an operational infrastructure […]

New Delhi: To create an affordable yet powerful smartphone ecosystem for the masses in the country, Reliance Jio Platforms and Google on Wednesday announced to launch an entry-level Android smartphone soon. Jio Platforms and Google have entered into a commercial agreement to jointly develop the entry-level affordable smartphone with optimisations to the Android operating system […]

San Francisco: Witnessing a steep rise in the emoji use worldwide, Google has rolled out a quick access emoji bar in Gboard beta version, which would be available to all Gboard Android users in the coming months. The new emoji shortcuts bar in Gboard will appear right above the keyboard. With the emoji bar, users […]

San Francisco: Google is set to launch its Apple AirDrop-like file sharing feature for Android users sometime in August. Called Nearby Share and currently, in Beta, the tool will be available for current Android users, running Android 6 and newer, over the air, reports GSMArena. “The minimum OS version requirement falls in line with what […]

San Francisco: Google has so far provided $39.5 million in funding to more than 5,600 publishers in 115 countries who are facing financial hardship as a result of the economic and advertising downturn in the pandemic. India’s digital-only news organisation East Mojo and Tamil language publication Minnambalam are among the small and medium local newsrooms […]