Google says an Indian antitrust order will hinder the Android ecosystem. The company told the Indian Supreme Court that the antitrust order will slow the ecosystem’s growth in the country by requiring Google to modify its contracts, its license agreements and its arrangements with a...
Google has asked a federal court to throw out an antitrust lawsuit. The request addressed the U.S. Justice Department’s suit filed in 2020 that alleges that the Alphabet firm violated antitrust law in order to uphold its dominant position in the search market, Reuters reported...
Google Pay has reportedly won permission to operate as a payment institution in Brazil. The move helps the company expand its footprint in Latin America’s largest economy at the of a year that has seen Google pledge $1.2 billion to invest in the region’s digital...
Google is reportedly merging two of its mapping teams under pressure to reduce costs. The tech giant will combine the team overseeing its mapping service Waze with workers handling its Maps feature, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Dec. 8). The move comes near the...
Google and Renault are expanding on their partnership, allowing the automaker to offer over-the-air software updates to its vehicles amid a boom in the connected car marketplace. “We want to make the car an intelligent object that learns and one that can be upgraded over...
Delivering on its recent promise to “supercharge” search in time for the 2022 holidays, Google unveiled a new set of features that add value to shopping queries, ideally to speed conversions. In a Tuesday (Nov. 1) blog post, Google VP/GM of Consumer Shopping Shashi Thakur...
With the holidays approaching and consumers increasingly worried about costs, Google has unveiled a series of tools designed to help them find deals when they shop. “Coupon codes are a great way to save, but finding them — and making sure they work — can...
Calling it “a big deal” for creators, Google parent Alphabet said Tuesday it will pay top creative talent to post videos on its new YouTube Shorts platform as it aims to grab a bigger slice of a shrinking ad-spend pie while slowing the advance of...
Google is continuing its efforts to enhance its shopping offerings with new features designed to provide what it calls “a more visual experience” to people using its desktop search. According to a post on the company blog Thursday (Oct. 20) shoppers will now encounter results...
