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India opens antitrust case against Google over its payments app – TechCrunch

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

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

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

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CCI to probe if Google misuses reach to push its payments app

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

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Becker still preparing to make business park home for Google

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

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Kelley Commentaries: Crushing The Google Summer Internship

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

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Jury finds in favor of Google in patent infringement trial over YouTube | News

Multinational information technology company, Google, was victorious in Marshall’s federal court, on Friday, after a jury concluded that Google’s web-based You Tube service did not infringe a series of patents related to adaptive video-streaming technology. The case began this past Monday in US District Court Judge Rodney Gilstrap’s courtroom before a jury… Source link

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