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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday outlined changes to search results and new tools for apps developers to promote their products on third-party apps and rival app stores as part of efforts to comply with landmark EU tech rules seeking to curb Big Tech’s power. Designated as gatekeepers controlling millions of users and businesses’ access to their platforms, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance will have to be compliant with… Source link

More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED. The two-day… Source link

Two days after a WPBF 25 Investigation into a company allegedly posing as a Stanley Steemer franchise, Google said it has suspended the imposter company’s sponsored ads.Tom Scalera, President of Stanley Steemer of South Florida, told WPBF 25 last week that another company was fooling customers by placing sponsored ads on Google right under his ads, and then when people called the wrong number by accident, the other company said they were Stanley Steemer.So Scalera complained to Google… Source link

Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images In taking questions from the crowd, Brin discussed AI’s impact on search and how Google can maintain its leadership position in its core market as AI continues to grow. He also commented on the flawed launch last month of Google’s image generator, which the company pulled after users discovered historical inaccuracies and questionable responses. “We definitely messed up on the image… Source link

In December, Google spent $700 million to resolve states’ claims that its Play Store had strong-armed app makers into high fees and tough terms. About six weeks after that, Google paid $350 million to end a lawsuit accusing it of improperly sharing users’ private information. On Monday morning, a Massachusetts company called Singular Computing said it had resolved its lawsuit with Google, involving claims that the tech giant had stolen its chip designs. Singular said in a news release… Source link

Google is taking a page from Apple and developing its own emergency SOS feature for Android phones that can connect to satellite services.  The test feature is popping up on Google Pixel phones with the latest software update. In the Settings > Safety & emergency tab, you may see a “satellite SOS” option. The feature doesn’t activate anything, according to 9to5Google. Still, the menus describe the function as a way to “message with emergency services and share your location when you… Source link

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A group representing Indian startups has asked the country’s antitrust watchdog to order Alphabet Inc’s Google to reinstate apps it removed for policy violations, a letter seen by Reuters shows, escalating a showdown with the U.S. giant in a key market. Google on Friday removed more than 100 Indian apps, including popular ones by Matrimony.com, for not complying with its policy of paying a service fee when in-app payment options other than Google’s are… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s Gemini diversity errors and lower employee raises hurts morale  The Verge Source link

NEW DELHI: Unable to offer any explanations for the unsubstantiated comments on PM Modi made by its AI platform Gemini, American tech giant Google said a ‘sorry’ to the govt and called the platform ‘unreliable’, minister of state for IT & Electronics Rajeev Chandrasekhar has told TOI.“We had sent them a notice, seeking an explanation on the unsubstantiated results thrown up by Gemini regarding a particular query on PM Modi. They replied and said, “Sorry, the platform is… Source link

Google Drive for iOS now lets you filter searches using dropdown menus for File Type, Owners, and Last Modified, the company wrote on Friday in its Workspace Updates blog. The dropdown menus show up before and after a search, and relevant filter recommendations will show up as well as users type. Google says the update is available to Google Workspace customers and individual subscribers, as well as anyone with a personal Google account on iOS. The feature hasn’t been rolled out for Android… Source link