Ritu Jha- An Indian American Google employee who was arrested on the count of murder in the second-degree after his wife’s body was found on a beach in Hawaii has been released pending further investigation, Hawaii Island Police announced Fri., Feb 21 in a press release. However, the family of suspect Sonam Saxena, 43, says […]
IANS- In fresh trouble for Google, 50 US Attorneys General probing its anti-trust market practices have decided to expand the investigation into the tech giant’s Android and Search businesses. CNBC reported on Thursday that the investigation has widened and Attorneys General will begin to examine whether the company has acted anti-competitively with its Search […]
IANS- Google is under an anti-trust probe over a new Internet Protocol that could give the tech giant an unfair competitive advantage, the media reported. The US House Judiciary Committee is investigating Google’s plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome, a new standard that aims to improve internet privacy and security by encryption, reports the […]
indica News Bureau- Google has announced the setting up of Google Research India, an artificial intelligence research team in Bangalore, Karnataka, that will focus on advancing computer science and applying AI research to solve big problems in healthcare, agriculture and education, among other areas. The company said artificial intelligence is opening up the next […]
IANS- The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has directed Google to pay a record $170 million over YouTube’s child privacy violations. The settlement announcement was made Wednesday, Sept.4 by FTC and requires Google and YouTube to pay $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York for allegedly violating the Children’s Online […]
IANS- Microsoft has admitted that third-party contractors listen to your voice conversations on Skype and virtual assistant Cortana. The revelation came after Motherboard found contractors were listening to audio from both Skype and Cortana, including sensitive and personal conversations of Microsoft customers. “We realized, based on questions raised recently, that we could do a […]
indica News Bureau U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, has filed a lawsuit against Google in a California court claiming that the tech giant infringed on her free speech by suspending her ad account after her participation last month in her party’s televised debate, the campaign announced. The Hawaii […]
indica News Bureau- Data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the first three quarters of fiscal year 2019 show employers seeking H-1B and L-1 visas for workers are being asked to prove they’ll have work assignments for the full three-year term of the visa program, in a continuing trend under President […]
IANS- The current dominance in online commerce enjoyed by Amazon could be endangered if Instagram, with its one billion users worldwide, pushes ahead with its plans to enter that space, as its new chief, Adam Mosseri, has said he intends to do. In his first public interview on the company’s future strategy since taking […]
IANS- After announcing a fresh investment of $600 million in expanding its data center in Oklahoma, Google has now decided to invest $1 billion for 20,000 homes in the Bay Area in San Francisco. “Today we’re announcing an additional $1 billion investment in housing across the Bay Area. Over the next 10 years, we’ll […]
