JUNE 8, 2021 On the heels of the French fine, Google has initiated changes which it said would benefit its partners, the media. Google’s commitment applies to its business in France but the company said some of the changes it is making will take effect globally A heavy French hammer has hit Google with the ...

June 7, 2021 Alphabet’s Google agreed to make changes to some of its widely-used online advertising services under an unprecedented settlement with France’s antitrust watchdog released on Monday. The authority also fined the Mountain View, California-based company 220 million euros ($267.48 million) after a probe found it abused its market power in the intricate ad ...

April 22, 2021 A panel of U.S. senators questioned officials from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors. Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use ...

April 14, 2021 The Vice President,  Yemi Osinbajo has called on world leaders to build a fairer world that takes into account the interest of the poor and the marginalized. He noted that the world should not impose unfair burdens on developing countries, but that the principle of fairness must be applied by leaders in ...

Alphabet Inc’s Google has reached licensing deals with over 600 news outlets around the world and is seeing a “huge increase” in users requesting more content from specific publications as part of a new program, it said on Wednesday. The update comes as big internet service providers including Facebook Inc have been locked in bitter ...

Google says today’s Doodle celebrates the 142nd birthday of Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr. Wu Lien-teh, who invented a surgical face covering that is widely considered the precursor to the N95 mask.Born into a family of Chinese immigrants in Penang, Malaya (modern-day Malaysia) on this day in 1879, Wu went on to become the first student of ...

In honour of women who have made a difference through the years, Google is giving a ‘big hand’ to honour this year’s international women’s day. The tech giant is celebrating the annual celebration today with an animated doodle that highlights women’s “firsts” in history. The Google doodle shows images of ‘raised hands’ which according to ...

Despite the harsh economic conditions of last year due to the covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown, African start-ups were still able to raise a substantial amount of venture capital. According to the latest WeeTracker venture capital report for 2020, African start-ups raised $727.27million from 478 Venture Capital deals in 2020. Not surprisingly, Nigeria tops ...

The outgoing Republican chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee asked the chief executives of five major U.S. tech firms to answer detailed questions about decisions to restrict or permanently ban accounts of conservative users. Senator Roger Wicker sent letters to Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter in which he said “thousands ...

Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state filed lawsuits against the social media company, saying it used a “buy or bury” strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay. With the filing of the twin ...