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Google’s Area 120 debuts Checks, an AI-powered privacy compliance solution for mobile apps – TechCrunch

A team at Google is today launching a new product for mobile app developers called Checks which leverages A.I. technology to identify possible privacy and compliance issues within apps, amid a rapidly changing regulatory and policy landscape. The freemium solution will be offered to both Android and iOS app developers of all sizes, who will be able to have their apps analyzed then receive a report with actionable insights about how to address the problems that are found. Checks was… Source link

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Google to invest $1bn in India’s number two mobile operator | Telecommunications News

Google partners with Bharti Airtel to provide affordable access to smartphones to a billion Indians and speed up use of cloud-based computing. Google will invest up to $1bn in India’s second-largest mobile operator, the two companies say, as the Android-maker looks to bolster its presence in the vast nation’s booming telecoms market. The global tech giant will buy a $700m stake in billionaire Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel, giving it 1.28 percent ownership, the firms said in a joint… Source link

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a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round – TechCrunch

Carry1st, a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This is a16z’s first investment in an Africa-headquartered company (the firm has previously invested in Branch and Zipline, companies with some of its operations in Africa but headquartered in the U.S). Carry1st also received investments from Avenir and Google; it’s the latter’s second check from its Africa… Source link

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Verizon and Google Cloud to collaborate to deliver 5G mobile edge computing

What you need to know: Verizon and Google Cloud are working together to bring the power of the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon’s network. Verizon 5G Edge with Google Distributed Cloud Edge intends to bring compute and storage services to the network edge to support real-time enterprise applications. Ericsson will pilot 5G Edge with Google Distributed Cloud Edge at its USA 5G Smart Factory. BASKING RIDGE, N.J. and SUNNYVALE, C.A. – Verizon and Google Cloud are… Source link

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Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action – TechCrunch

The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country’s competition rules will target tech giants Apple and Google — including their duopolistic command of the mobile market, via iOS and Android; their respective app stores; and the browsers and services bundled with mobile devices running their OSes. So it could mean good news for third-party developers trying to get oxygen for alternatives to dominant Apple and… Source link

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Apple, Google have ‘vice-like grip’ over mobile devices, U.K. regulator says

The U.K. competition regulator said Tuesday that its interim report has found that a duopoly of Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google limits competition and choice, and that the firms are “exercising a vice-like grip” over mobile devices. The Competition and Markets Authority said its report into mobile ecosystems suggests users are losing out because of the companies’ control. It had launched a probe in June over concerns that Apple AAPL, -2.07% … Source link

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Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling – TechCrunch

Google announced today it’s changing the way search works on mobile devices, initially in the U.S. Now, when you reach the bottom of a set of search results on your phone, you won’t have to tap to go to the next page. Instead, the next set of results will automatically load so you can continuously scroll down to see more information. The change will roll out on the mobile web and will be supported on the Google mobile app for both iOS and Android in the U.S. for most… Source link

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