Reliance Jio continues to add billions of dollars to its bank account, Apple scores a tax victory in Europe and researchers test a system for undersea Wi-Fi (with lasers!). Here’s your Daily Crunch for July 15, 2020. Google invests $4.5 billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms Another giant tech company has invested in India’s largest telecom, following Facebook’s investment a couple of months ago. Reliance Jio has raised about $20.2 billion in the past four months — more… Source link

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) is attempting to make nice with European regulators. On Monday, the U.S. tech giant promised that it will not leverage the fitness and health data generated by Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) to target advertising. Alphabet’s Google unit signed an agreement to buy the fitness tech company… Source link

A day after Nick Cannon lost his job for peddling anti-Semitism, Dwyane Wade tweeted his support for the entertainer. He later wrote that he wasn’t supporting Cannon’s comments. ViacomCBS cut ties with Cannon on Tuesday, citing “hateful speech” and “anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” he espoused on a podcast. On Wednesday, Wade tweeted at Cannon “We are with you keep leading!” The retired NBA star then deleted the tweet after around two hours and more than 2,000 comments before… Source link

In a set of new lawsuits, two Illinois residents argue that three tech giants violated state laws prohibiting the use of personal biometric data without permission. Illinois residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk allege that images of their faces appeared in IBM’s “Diversity in Faces” database without their consent and were used to train facial recognition systems at Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet. While all three companies are based on the West Coast,… Source link

Google is launching a major update to its G Suite productivity tools today that will see a deep integration of Gmail, Chat, Meet and Rooms on the web and on mobile, as well as other tools like Calendar, Docs, Sheets and Slides. This integration will become available in the G Suite early adopter program, with a wider roll-out coming at a later time. The G Suite team has been working on this project for about a year, though it fast-tracked the Gmail/Meet integration, which was originally… Source link

GOOGLE IS DOING ITS PART TO HELP THE ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYED WORKERS (CNN) – Google is lending a helping hand to unemployed workers amid the pandemic. The search engine says it plans to fund 100,000 need-based career certification scholarships. Google’s senior vice president of global affairs, Kent Walker, says the certificates are in data analytics, user experience design and project management. No college degrees or prior experience are needed… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., gestures while speaking during a discussion on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Pichai urged the U.S. and European Union to coordinate regulatory approaches on artificial intelligence, calling their alignment critical. Geert Vanden Wijngaert | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is making its popular Gmail app more of a productivity powerhouse. The Alphabet… Source link

True to Google’s penchant for just announcing things right after they’ve leaked, the company has unveiled a grand redesign of Gmail for G Suite business users ahead of next week’s Google Cloud conference. The app isn’t so much “Gmail” anymore as it is a unified app for all of Google’s communication platforms: Gmail, Chat, Rooms, and Meet. It will be available as an “early access preview” to G Suite customers this week and roll out to all G Suite customers later this… Source link

One of President Trump’s close economic advisers isn’t bullish on extending sweetened unemployment checks despite the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to keep unemployment levels elevated. “The single most important thing we have to do going forward is stop the $600 a week [unemployment] payments,” Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade. Moore estimates the U.S. economy has lost 1 million to 2 million jobs because of the extra unemployment… Source link

Image copyright Getty Images Expensive furniture sold by the US-based company Wayfair is at the centre of a bizarre conspiracy theory involving allegations of child trafficking, which has been spreading online. The unfounded claims first appeared on 14 June in the US but have become a global trend… Source link