MUMBAI (Reuters) – At least 10 Indian lending apps on Google’s Play Store, which have been downloaded millions of times, breached Google rules on loan repayment lengths aimed at protecting vulnerable borrowers, according to a Reuters review of such services and more than a dozen users. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google Play is displayed at Tokyo Game Show 2019 in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan, September 12, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Four apps were taken down from the Play Store – where… Source link

President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social-media platforms following his supporters’ siege on the U.S. Capitol. But it remains to be seen how fast or where — if anywhere — on the internet he will be able to reach his followers. The far-right-friendly Parler had been the leading candidate, at least until Alphabet’s GOOG, +1.12% GOOGL, +1.32% Google and Apple AAPL, +0.86% … Source link

A pregnant mum made a chilling Instagram post moments before her plane vanished and crashed into the sea. Ratih Windania is one of 62 people feared dead on board Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ 182 after the plane disappeared following its departure from Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday. Indonesian authorities said they had recovered pieces of wreckage and body parts on Sunday from the waters north of Jakarta. The mother posted on Instagram from the airport before boarding the flight. “Bye bye family…. Source link

(Image: Google) Many of us spent most of 2020 indoors due to the coronavirus pandemic. If you’re curious about where life took you in the past 12 months, however, Google Maps has just the thing. According to 9to5Google, Google Maps is offering “2020 Timeline Updates” that offer stats on where you’ve been. These email updates summarize locations visited over the past year for anyone who has their Location History on Android enabled. In addition to including cities and places you’ve visited,… Source link

Anthony Levandowski stood at the center of the race between Google and Uber to build self-driving cars. He was there at the beginning of Google’s program in 2009. By the time it became Waymo in 2016, he’d left, founded a self-driving truck company called Otto, and sold that (in 2016) to Uber for $600 million. He was eventually indicted on dozens of federal charges, accused of stealing 14,000 files containing Google’s self-driving trade secrets. In August, Levandowski was sentenced to 18… Source link

The 2020 postseason could be the last time fans see New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees in action. Brees is likely to retire when the NFL season is over, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Sunday, though the veteran hasn’t made it official. Brees likely to return after 2020 NFL season Brees, who turns 42 on Jan. 15, finished out his 20th NFL regular season last week. “I have yet to talk to one person who believes that Drew Brees will play in 2021,” Rapoport said. “He has not… Source link

Chewy Shaw, an engineer at Google, attends a video meeting with other workers in the union from his home Synopsis On the back of automation and outsourcing, a handful of tech giants and their generously paid tech workers are shaping a twotiered society, hollowing out the middle-class in the US. Pressure groups like worker unions could play an important role in setting the stage for collective bargaining. Earlier this month, 225-odd workers got together at Alphabet — parent conglomerate of… Source link

Joe Biden wants to give you a $2,000 stimulus check — and it could be quick It has been less than two weeks since Americans started getting their second coronavirus relief payments — “stimulus checks” — and the anticipation about a third phase is already heating up. President-elect Joe Biden has called the current $600 round of cash a “down payment,” and early last week he said $2,000 checks would go out “immediately” if his party took control of both houses of Congress. The Democrats… Source link

Horse trainer Eric Guillot has been banned by the New York Racing Association and 1/ST Racing for changing the name of one of his horses to a racial slur, which was directed at a Black TVG analyst. Guillot, who has made $13 million over his career from horses he trained, tweeted on Jan. 1 that the three-year-old colt he was running at Aqueduct Racetrack was being given a new name “in honor of a TVG analyst,” and followed that with a Black fist emoji. He revealed in a follow-up tweet that… Source link

Topline Parler—a social media app increasingly popular among conservatives, including many who participated in Wednesday’s unrest at the U.S. Capitol—is on the brink of being booted from the Internet after Amazon, Apple and Google said they would cut ties with it, all within the span of 24 hours.  Parler was founded by John Matze, Jr., Jared Thomson, and Rebekah Mercer in 2018. AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Amazon notified Parler on… Source link