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Google adds COVID-related health and safety info to Google Travel – TechCrunch

Google today announced it’s adding more COVID-related health and safety information to its Google Travel booking service. Starting this week, when users search for hotels and vacation rental properties through Google Travel, they may see new information about COVID-19 safety precautions at the property — like enhanced cleaning procedures that may be in use, for example, or if there’s an option for a contact-free check-in, among other things. The company said it’s working in… Source link

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Google is giving free Stadia gaming kits to YouTube premium subscribers

Google has added another promotion to help push its cloud gaming service Stadia into more households: now YouTube Premium subscribers can get its $100 Stadia Premiere Edition bundle for free. Google’s Stadia Premiere Edition features one Stadia controller in addition to a Chromecast Ultra. However, it is important to note that the Chromecast Ultra included is an older model and not the newer one that was recently released. Google has said that the new Chromecast Ultra will not support… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK — When asked about Google, Bryan Clayton voices a familiar lament among small business owners. “You keep getting squeezed further and further down the search results page,” says Clayton, CEO of GreenPal, a company that operates an app to help homeowners find lawn care. “As a startup, you don’t have a million-dollar advertising budget.” The Justice Department sued Google on Oct. 20 for anticompetitive behavior, saying the company’s dominance in online search and… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK (AP) — Monopoly or not, small business owners’ biggest complaint about Google is that its advertising policies favor companies with big marketing budgets. Companies covet the top spots in Google search results _ the first page of rankings, and the top of subsequent pages. But if too many companies are interested, the cost of one of these spots can jump out of reach for a small business, just like the price for… Source link

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What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular

Throughout his campaign to win the White House, President-elect Joe Biden has been relatively quiet about the technology industry.  In a revealing January 2020 interview with the New York Times editorial board, Biden said that he wanted to revoke Section 230; suggested that he disagreed with how friendly the Obama administration became with Silicon Valley; and referred to tech executives as “little creeps” who displayed an “overwhelming arrogance.” But internet companies have also… Source link

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France’s OVH partners with Google for European cloud computing push

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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Npm Package Steals Sensitive Files Targeting Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex, Discord Messaging App

Sonatype security researchers found malicious code in an npm package, which is designed to steal sensitive files from Google Chrome, Brave, Opera, Yandex browsers and Discord application. Sonatype is a security company that offers developer security operations (DevSecOps) services, so it also monitors public package repositories. The company said discord.dll has been downloaded for more than 100 times since it was published over five months… Source link

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