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Google made sure it was the search engine of choice for mobile carriers FTC staff urged the agency’s five commissioners to sue Google for signing exclusive contracts with Apple and the major wireless carriers that made sure the company’s search engine came pre-installed on smartphones. View note A top Google executive told investigators that the company was paying “humongous” sums as part of these deals. He bragged in internal company communications that the contracts… Source link

Facebook: The Google+ network and phone wars Google’s fledgling social network, Google+, had about 500 million users in 2012 compared with more than 1 billion people on Facebook. (Facebook now has an estimated 2.8 billion users worldwide.) But Facebook said the new upstart had an unfair advantage: Google had structured its search website so that users would see links to Google+ profiles before those from networks like Facebook and Twitter. In a previously unknown March 2012 presentation… Source link

The contracts at the center of the fight made Google the default search engine on almost all U.S. smartphones and locked in that exclusivity for years, giving the company a major advantage just as Americans were starting to flock to smartphones. In its antitrust suit against Google last October, DOJ revealed that the company pays as much as $12 billion a year to Apple alone to keep its search engine as the default on iPhones, iPads and the Safari browser. The FTC memos suggest Obama-era… Source link

DuckDuckGo is calling out Google over its new privacy labels on iOS which reveal how much data the company is collecting from iPhone users. Google’s main app and the Chrome browser app have both been updated for iOS. As is now required by Apple, Google is providing privacy labels for each of the apps which list the data they collect from users and what the data is used for. The long list of information Google collects from iOS app users is the subject of DuckDuckGo’s latest attack against… Source link

Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. There is a whole art to keeping services running at scale up and running, and the people who do it are called site reliability engineers, or SREs. More and more, the practices that Google created are being adopted and so is the SRE term. Most companies can’t hire the smartest people in infrastructure in the world, like the hyperscalers and cloud builders can. And so… Source link

Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode is at the forefront of a $5 billion class-action lawsuit which alleges users are being tracked during private browsing sessions. The lawsuit alleges Google is in violation of wiretapping and privacy laws for intercepting, tracking, and collecting communications when Chrome’s Incognito mode is in use. Google has been trying to get the lawsuit dismissed since it was filed last June. A federal judge ruled the lawsuit must go forward. In the judge’s ruling… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas — Google Fiber announced Monday it has opened a new “Fiber Space” on South Lamar Boulevard. The new “Fiber Space” will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday. The office is located at 701 S. Lamar Blvd. The company has closed its downtown retail space to the public, so this new office space will give Austinites a new option to explore using the service in the… Source link

‘Grow with Google’ Vice President Lisa Gevelber explains Google’s professional certification training program which could lead to opportunities in high-growth fields. Google’s online job training program is hoping to “create real economic opportunity for everyone,” according to Grow with Google Vice President Lisa Gevelber. “Eighty million Americans do not have a college degree and we feel like that is a barrier to getting a good job,” she told FOX Business’ “Cavuto: Coast… Source link

Microsoft, as expected, has synchronized the release schedule of its Edge browser with Chrome’s, which Google had earlier announced would accelerate to an every-four-week cadence. “As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster,” the Edge team wrote in an unsigned March 12 post to a company blog. The week prior, Google had… Source link

Written by Sean Lyngaas Mar 15, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Google has released an urgent software update for a flaw in the popular Chrome browser amid reports that an exploit for the bug is already available.  The vulnerability is in Blink, the feature that Chrome uses to convert HTML code to web pages, and could allow an attacker to execute code remotely or conduct a denial-of-service attack on a machine,