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After several major technology companies announced layoffs due to macroeconomic headwinds in the last few months, Google is now under the spotlight as news reports this week predict that the company will cut at least 10,000 jobs. The forecasts are based on a report from the Information, which said that under the Google Reviews and Development (GRAD) program, launched earlier this year, managers have been told to allocate a low performer rating to at least 6% of… Source link

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation into Apple and Google‘s control of the mobile browser market Tuesday. The authority will explore the companies’ “stranglehold” over browsing, as well as Apple’s control over cloud gaming through the App Store, it said in a release. The authority said Google and Apple powered 97% of all web browsing that took place in the U.K. in 2021. Web developers, cloud gaming service providers and browser vendors have offered… Source link

Nov 22 (Reuters) – Britain’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it had launched an in-depth investigation into the market dominance of Apple (AAPL.O) and Google’s (GOOGL.O) mobile browsers, months after the regulator began considering a probe. Reporting by Pushkala Aripaka in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Source link

MILAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) – An Italian administrative court on Friday rejected an appeal by Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) against a decision by Italy’s antitrust authority to fine the group, but accepted iPhone maker Apple’s (AAPL.O) appeal against the watchdog’s ruling. Last year, Italy’s antitrust regulator fined Google and Apple 10 million euros ($10.36 million) each, claiming that the two tech groups had not provided “clear and immediate information” on how they collect and use the data of… Source link

Privacy requirements are fundamentally altering the marketing industry with the ad tech landscape the primary front for this change. Apple sounded the starter gun, and where it goes Google must follow. The iPhone manufacturer’s iOS restrictions have shredded the mobile marketing orthodoxy with household names including Facebook and Snapchat among its casualties, and now similar changes are coming to Android. The Google-controlled operating system accounts for approximately 70% of… Source link

Google announced today that its Health Connect app is now available in beta on the Play Store. Health Connect is designed to centralize access to health and fitness data from various eligible apps. Today, more than 10 health and fitness apps are launching integrations with Health Connect, including MyFitnessPal, Oura and Peloton. The app syncs health and fitness data from eligible platforms and allows other apps to gain access to this data with their consent, while… Source link

“Google is clearly trying to modernize what has been this golden goose, which is their search business, while also trying to modernize the format that they’re able to deliver to users on YouTube with Shorts,” said our analyst Max Willens, following Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings. “We might be at the beginning of an environment where it’s tough to build momentum around either of them.” How we got here: Last month, Alphabet revealed only modest third-quarter gains after a booming… Source link

Google’s resistance to allowing third-party payment systems to touch its Play digital store appear to be ebbing away, with the search and ads giant last week announcing it has commenced tests of payment choice in the USA. Citing “strong interest from developers around the world” after a May 2022 announcement of third=party payments pilot in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the European Economic Area, Google last week declared “that based on the positive response and initial… Source link

Google says its A.I.-powered flood prediction program, the Flood Forecasting Initiative it first rolled out in 2018, can now issue life-saving forecasts seven days in advance, up from 48 hours. “Considering the importance and harms of flooding now, with tens of thousands of fatalities a year and hundreds of millions of people affected, there has been a really major gap in the availability of reliable and actionable flood forecasting systems,” says Sella Nevo, the lead engineer on… Source link

Google says its A.I.-powered flood prediction program, the Flood Forecasting Initiative it first rolled out in 2018, can now issue life-saving forecasts seven days in advance, up from 48 hours. “Considering the importance and harms of flooding now, with tens of thousands of fatalities a year and hundreds of millions of people affected, there has been a really major gap in the availability of reliable and actionable flood forecasting systems,” says Sella Nevo, the lead engineer on… Source link