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FILE PHOTO: Visitors stand at the French web-hosting and server provider OVH Group new headquarters in Paris, France, October 17, 2018. Picture taken October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau PARIS (Reuters) – French technology firm OVH said on Tuesday it is partnering with Google to build up its capacities in cloud computing, leaning on the U.S. giant’s technology to speed up a push towards developing a European contender in the area. Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet’s Google dominate the… Source link

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In our review of Google’s $99 Nest Audio speaker, we wrote that it’s “unfortunate that you can’t use two Nest Audio speakers paired with a Chromecast for home theater audio, like you can do with a couple of Amazon Echo speakers and a Fire TV.” But it appears that Google originally intended to offer just such a feature — and we’re wondering if the company might still introduce it in the next few months. As 9to5Google points out, Google seemingly forgot to remove a rather… Source link

In mid-October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a long-expected antitrust lawsuit against Google, one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. Claiming that Google has used deals with phone makers to keep its web search… Source link

India’s antitrust watchdog has opened an investigation into Google for allegedly abusing the dominant position of its app store and Android mobile operating system to promote its payments service in the world’s second largest internet market. In its Monday announcement (PDF) about opening an antitrust case against Google, Indian watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) said it would review claims whether Google “unfairly” skews the search results on… Source link

The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the island of Cyprus, Recode has learned, becoming one of the highest-profile Americans to take advantage of one of the world’s most controversial “passport-for-sale” programs. Schmidt, one of America’s wealthiest people, and his family have won approval to become citizens of the Mediterranean nation, according to a previously unreported notice in a Cypriot publication in October. While it is not… Source link

New Delhi: The Competition Commission of India has opened yet another antitrust case against Google, this time looking into the company’s payments app, Google Pay. The case alleges that Google unfairly promoted its own payments app via “prominent placement on the Play Store” and “imposing unfair terms on users by requiring them to use Google Pay which is not in compliance with the data localisation directive issued by Reserve Bank of India and the guidelines issued by NPCI”. … Source link

The Pixel 5, which looks pretty good. Ron Amadeo … Source link

BECKER — With state bonding funds secured, Becker is another step closer to what it hopes will be a bustling business park. Legislators agreed on a bonding bill in October, and the $1.9 billion spending package included $20.5 million for the Becker business park. Becker is hoping to be home to a new Google Data Center, and this state funding is considered a key to redevelopment efforts tied to the incremental planned closure of Sherco, an Xcel coal-powered generating plant set to be… Source link

This year has been strange for everyone. Never did I think that I would go almost 4 months without wearing “real” pants. However, one thing did not change as the muggy days of summer approached: the onset of summer internships. Around the country, MBAs relished their week or two off between final exams and first-day impressions on the new job. This time around, the difference was that internships were remote, and some even shortened. This put even more pressure on interns to make a… Source link