Tag: Google

New Delhi: Increasing its stake in its ongoing fight with Google, leading digital payments platform Paytm on Thursday announced a Rs 10-crore fund for mini apps developers in the country. Addressing a mini apps developer conference, Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said that he is targeting “at least one million mini apps” to put an […]

New Delhi: Google has introduced breakout rooms in its video conferencing app Meet to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls and have more engaged distance communication. Google will let you make up to 100 breakout rooms during a single call. With the feature, teachers and educators will be able to break their classes […]

New Delhi: Google has introduced new updates for Chromebooks that help people with disabilities make their working environment accessible and productive. Now, the visually impaired can change the colour of the cursor to improve its visibility and add a personal touch to Chromebook. This feature is designed to help people with low vision and complements […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Amazon and the Centre on a plea filed by CPI MP Binoy Viswam seeking protection of data of transactions made over UPIs. The plea said that instead of fulfilling their statutory obligations, the RBI and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) […]

San Francisco: As the US presidential election inches closer, Google said it has terminated more than 3,000 fake YouTube channels in July-September period which were part of a large spam network linked to China that attempted to run an influence operation on YouTube. As a result, this large China-operated network hasn’t been able to build […]

New Delhi: The cyber security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) are growing exponentially, disrupting businesses of all sizes globally, leading to outages and loss of user trust, Google has said. The tech giant revealed that its infrastructure absorbed a massive 2.5Tbps DDoS in September 2017, the highest-bandwidth attack reported to date which was the […]

New Delhi: Google has announced to discontinue its emergency location sharing app called Trusted Contacts from December this year and it has already disappeared from Play Store. Launched three years back, the app allows people to add their trusted friends and family members and seek their help in case of an emergency. The contacts could […]

New York: By analysing Google web searches for keywords related to Covid-19, researchers have said that web-based analytics have demonstrated their value in predicting the spread of the infectious disease. According to the study, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Strong correlations were found between keyword searches on the internet search engine Google Trends […]

San Francisco: Chrome OS is reportedly getting a dark mode which has been in high demand for its benefits on eye strain and general readability. Spotted in Google’s experimental Canary channel, Android Central reported that the Canary version of Chrome OS contains an experimental version of Chrome OS’s dark mode. “It may only be accessed […]

San Francisco: Google has pledged to make its product packaging 100 per cent plastic free and completely recyclable by 2025. Currently, the back housing (or the back cover) of the recently launched Pixel 5 is made with 100 per cent recycled aluminum, Google said in a statement on Monday. “We’ll continue to keep all shipping […]

New York: “Baloney!”, “sham!” and “who the hell are you” scoldings dominated a Senate hearing on Wednesday where the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google took heat in a talking match with US lawmakers over the idea of free speech and alleged anti-conservative bias on the companies’ mighty platforms. The Congressional grilling quickly shifted into […]

San Francisco: Google is reportedly testing a new feature in the Play Store app that will allow users to directly compare similar apps, in order to make decisions before downloading an app. According to a report in Android Police, a new section called “Compare apps” has begun showing for a few users that displays similar-looking […]

New Delhi: Google and digital payments major Paytm were questioned by a parliamentary panel in India on a range of issues including data privacy and China links. The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill on Thursday also provided the two companies time to submit written responses to questions on several issues including […]

New Delhi: Hit by pandemic-related cuts in ad spend, Googles digital media revenues fell by 7 per cent in Q2 2020 to $38.3 billion, causing its market share to fall from 29 per cent in Q1 2020 to 26.3 per cent in Q2 — its lowest share of the global digital media market in the […]

New Delhi: Google has advised Android smartphone users to update the Chrome browser after it patched a Zero-Day bug in the browser. Google said the bug was exploited to allow attackers to bypass and escape the Chrome security sandbox on Android devices and run code on the underlying OS, reports ZDNet. The tech giant has […]