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Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google confirmed Wednesday it’s investing $4.5 billion into Indian digital services firm Jio Platforms in exchange for a 7.7% stake in the company, which is valued at $65 billion.  The investment, reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday and confirmed by Google VP Sameer Samat in a blog post, comes less than four months after Facebook said it was pumping $5.7 billion into Jio Platforms.  Owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance… Source link

Google is investing $4.5 billion for a 7.73 percent stake in Jio Platforms, an Indian internet giant that offers broadband, mobile services, and online commerce platforms, the company announced today. The investment, which is pending regulatory review, is part of Google’s commitment to invest around $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years. It follows a similar move from Facebook to invest $5.7 billion for a 9.9 percent stake in the company earlier this year. Jio Platforms… Source link

Google (GOOGL) will pump $4.5 billion into Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, the digital technology arm of sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries. That gives Google a 7.7% stake in the company, the companies announced Wednesday. The investment includes a deal to jointly develop an entry level, affordable smartphone and “expand the benefits of digitization across the length and breadth of India,” they said. The deal values Jio at about $58 billion. Jio Platforms includes India’s biggest mobile… Source link

Presentations and classes without gatecrashers are promised with the latest Google Meet upgrade. Google Google Meet has just announced an update which will mean that Zoombombing is history. It’s been confirmed that it will be rolled out to G Suite for Education customers and was announced in the G Suite Updates blog and picked up by Damien Wilde at 9to5Google. MORE FROM FORBESThree More Things Nobody Told You About Apple Watch watchOS 7By David Phelan… Source link

Google has become the latest high-profile firm to back India’s Reliance Jio Platforms. The search giant is investing $4.5 billion for a 7.73% stake in the top Indian telecom network, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Wednesday. The investment today from Google is one of the rare instances where the Android-maker has joined its global rival Facebook in backing a firm. Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms, which has amassed over 400 million… Source link

The first organic result in Google Search has an average click-through rate of 28.5%, according to a newly published study. Sistrix analyzed over 80 million keywords and billions of search results to understand how users engage with SERPs. Average CTR falls sharply after position one, the study finds, with the second and third positions having a 15% and 11% click-through rate respectively. Unsurprisingly, the tenth position in Google has an abysmal 2.5% click-through rate. Beyond that, it’s… Source link

Google’s office in New York on June 3. Drew Angerer/Getty Images On the popular Netflix series You, a stalker accesses his girlfriend’s texts by stealing her phone. (To the woe of viewers, she fails to unsync the missing device from her iCloud account before replacing it.) Later, he installs spyware on his neighbor’s phone to read her text messages and track her whereabouts. Though it’d be nice to pretend… Source link

Google (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Google is now offering 100,000 scholarships. Here’s how you can get one. Here’s what you need to know. Google Scholarships Google is giving away 100,000 scholarships so you can earn an online certificate in these three areas: data analytics; project management; and user experience (UX) design Here’s the kicker: Google will treat these… Source link

Google Nest Minis come in four distinct “flavors”: Sky (blue), coral (orange), charcoal (black), and chalk (gray). James Martin/CNET … Source link

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the coronavirus pandemic has reaffirmed what the technology giant has believed since its early days: Employees don’t have to be at their desks to get work done, and work is not defined by a physical place. “It can happen anywhere,” Pichai said, noting that, in a recent survey of U.S. chief financial officers, most said the coronavirus will have a lasting impact on improving their work flexibility. “As we adapt to new models of working,… Source link