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For many years, the vicious cycle has spun: Websites solicit lurid, unverified complaints about supposed cheaters, sexual predators, deadbeats and scammers. People slander their enemies. The anonymous posts appear high in Google results for the names of victims. Then the websites charge the victims thousands of dollars to take the posts down. This circle of slander has been lucrative for the websites and associated middlemen — and devastating for victims. Now Google is trying to break the… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images France’s competition watchdog has fined Google 220 million euros ($267 million) for abusing its market power in the online advertising industry. The French Competition Authority said Monday Google had unfairly sent business to its own services, and discriminated against the competition. Google… Source link

Pic: KupiVIP Russian internet-giant Yandex has announced that it is acquiring the online fashion retailer KupiVIP for integrating it in Yandex.Market, a platform for displaying products by retail and online stores. The acquisition is expected to help Yandex accelerate its entry into the apparel and footwear market. The deal will be completed in Q3 2021. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and the terms have not been disclosed. This year, Yandex plans to spend… Source link

Yandex, the so-called ‘Google of Russia’, has announced it has agreed to buy online fashion retailer KupiVIP. The deal will be completed after the summer. Yandex will buy and then integrate online clothing store KupiVIP into Yandex.Market, the company said in a statement Monday. The deal should be completed in the third quarter of this year, once it gets approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Yandex said. According to the statement, the deal will allow Yandex.Market to… Source link

MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. Yandex will buy and then integrate online clothing store KupiVIP into Yandex.Market, the company said in a statement. According to the statement, the deal will allow Yandex.Market to accelerate its entry into the clothing, footwear, and accessories market thanks to its well-established infrastructure, supplier base and long-term experience of the KupiVIP team. It was noted that at first Market and KupiVIP will work and develop in parallel, but gradually the services… Source link

LONDON — Russia is increasingly pressuring Google, Twitter and Facebook to fall in line with Kremlin internet crackdown orders or risk restrictions inside the country, as more governments around the world challenge the companies’ principles on online freedom. Russia’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, recently ramped up its demands for the Silicon Valley companies to remove online content that it deems illegal or restore pro-Kremlin material that had been blocked. The warnings have come… Source link

Google recently released a new algorithm update that aims to promote high-quality product reviews. Dubbed the “product reviews update,” Google announced that the update will promote… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai Google Google is deepening its partnership with Shopify by making it easier for the company’s 1.7 million merchants to reach shoppers in Google Search and across some of its other properties. The move comes as Google and Shopify are ramping up their efforts to compete against Amazon in e-commerce. Amazon is also increasingly competing with Google on search ads for commercial queries, which typically mean a consumer is actively considering a purchase, and is expected to… Source link

Tech giant to remove video apps from Play Store illegally streaming Italian soccer’s top flight. Posted: May 18 2021 By: Ed Dixon Getty Images Partnership will lead to “a level of protection unique in the world”, says Lega Serie A CEO Recent study from Synamedia and Ampere found that sports rights holders are missing out on US$28.3bn per year due to piracy Italian soccer’s Serie A has stepped up its fight against online piracy by agreeing a deal with Google that will see the technology… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A logo of Italy’s Lega Serie A is seen in Milan, Italy, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/File Photo MILAN (Reuters) – Serie A said on Monday Google agreed to remove from its content platform some video apps illegally enabling users to watch live games as a part of a deal between Italy’s top flight soccer league and the web giant to curb online piracy. Serie A stepped up efforts to curb online piracy in recent years to protect the value of its TV rights, which made most… Source link