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EU demands major concessions from Google over Fitbit deal

The EU has demanded that Google make major concessions relating to its $2.1bn acquisition of fitness-tracking company Fitbit if the deal is to be allowed to proceed imminently, according to people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Since it was announced last November, the acquisition has faced steep opposition from consumer groups and regulators, who have raised concerns over the effect of Google’s access to Fitbit’s health data on competition. EU regulators now… Source link

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E.U. Deal, U.K. Extradition Treaty, Google: Your Tuesday Briefing

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering the E.U.’s landmark stimulus deal, the suspension of the U.K.’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong and the last days of a famous Parisian store. E.U. agrees on a groundbreaking stimulus package After days of intense talks in Brussels, European Union leaders on Tuesday stepped up to confront one of the gravest challenges in the bloc’s history, agreeing on a 750 billion euro spending package to rescue… Source link

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Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google will collaborate with India’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Reliance Industries is pictured in a stall at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show at Gandhinagar, India, January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the… Source link

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Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms | News

Monday, July 20, 2020 7:09 a.m. EDT by Thomson Reuters By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet’s Google will collaborate with India’s Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the partnership at his company’s annual meeting last week, said… Source link

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Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms | News

Monday, July 20, 2020 7:09 a.m. EDT by Thomson Reuters By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet’s Google will collaborate with India’s Reliance Industries on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the partnership at his company’s annual meeting last week, said… Source link

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Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms

By Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet’s <GOOGL.O> Google will collaborate with India’s Reliance Industries <RELI.NS> on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the partnership at his company’s annual meeting last week, said Google would build an Android operating system (OS) to power a low-cost “4G or even 5G”… Source link

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Reliance-Google smartphone deal in India threatens Chinese firms

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A $4.5 billion deal under which Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google will collaborate with India’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) on a new smartphone likely heralds a big shake-up for the world’s second-largest mobile market, industry executives and analysts say. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Reliance Industries is pictured in a stall at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show at Gandhinagar, India, January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave Reliance boss Mukesh Ambani, announcing the… Source link

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Chinese AirPods Maker Soars on Deal to Assemble iPhone Amid Trade Tensions

(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will soon invite a mainland Chinese company into the exclusive club of global iPhone assemblers, marking the biggest change to a decade-old production model just as Washington-Beijing tensions escalate. Luxshare Precision Industry Co. struck a deal to acquire Wistron Corp.’s iPhone unit and become the first mainland company to assemble Apple’s marquee device. It’s another win for a company that went from making cables and antennas to AirPods, sending its shares… Source link

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Why BigQuery Omni Is A Big Deal For Google Cloud Customers And Partners

At Google Cloud Next 2020 virtual event, Google announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud extension of BigQuery that can run in AWS and Azure.  Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud Google BigQuery is a managed, serverless data warehouse available on Google Cloud. After App Engine, BigQuery was one of the first managed cloud services from Google. Launched in 2010, BigQuery is the most popular cloud data warehouse platform in the public cloud. It is one of the… Source link

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