Dive Brief: The Des Moines City Council on Monday approved a resolution outlining a series of carbon emission goals, including a 24/7 clean energy by 2035 pledge modeled after Google’s round-the-clock energy plan. Des Moines is already well on its way to 100% clean energy, according to the council resolution; 83% of the city’s energy came from clean sources in 2020. While Des Moines may benefit from factors that enable it to pursue ambitious energy targets,… Source link
Read More »Alphabet’s Google Pledges Not to Misuse Fitbit Health and Fitness Data
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) is attempting to make nice with European regulators. On Monday, the U.S. tech giant promised that it will not leverage the fitness and health data generated by Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) to target advertising. Alphabet’s Google unit signed an agreement to buy the fitness tech company… Source link
Read More »Google pledges not to use Fitbit health data to target ads
With the clock ticking on a European Commission probe into Google’s $2.1 billion bid for Fitbit, the tech giant offered regulators a concession late Monday, agreeing not to use Fitbit’s trove of health data to help target ads. Google had been staring down the possibility of a sweeping antitrust investigation by European regulators that was the latest in a series of probes into its deal with Fitbit announced last November. But the tech giant had a potential way to avoid the full thrust… Source link
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