Google wants to give developers promoting apps on its British Play store more billing choices. According to an announcement Wednesday (April 19) by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the tech giant has proposed allowing developers to use third-party payment processors for in-app transactions....
Continuing its push for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare use cases from search to symptom tracking and treatment, Google announced progress along these lines at its annual Check Up event on Tuesday (March 14). Google Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo told attendees that “The future...
Autofill solved a lot of problems for eCommerce — especially friction at checkout. Peeyush Ranjan, vice president and general manager of Google Pay, told Karen Webster that being able to fill in one’s payments details with a single click was a huge step in making...
Digital advertising headwinds have hit Alphabet — but the firm sees potential in cementing Google’s place in everyday commerce. Advertising revenue for the fourth quarter was down 3.6% from last year, to $59 billion. YouTube ads were 8.1% lower to just under $8 billion. CEO...
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...
