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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google’s Antitrust Trial Tests Authority Over Big Tech: Live Updates  The New York Times Google, DOJ kick off biggest tech antitrust trial in decades  Axios Google Has Maintained Illegal Monopoly For More Than A Decade, DOJ Claims  Forbes Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google tests a new ad slot on the Play Store ahead of its I/O developer conference  TechCrunch Source link

NEW DELHI, Jan 24 (Reuters) – India’s government on Tuesday tested locally developed mobile operating system BharOS, a move seen as challenging the dominance of Google’s Android just days after the U.S. giant suffered a major antitrust setback in the country. The government endorsement of the operating system comes after Google lost its fight in India’s Supreme Court to block an antitrust order that will force the company to change how it markets its Android operating system. “We have a long… Source link

RIYADH: Mental health is still often considered a taboo subject in the region and across the world, with explanations ranging from the superstitious to the criminal, but it is now being highlighted and normalized by Saudi filmmakers with their movies and television shows. In her most recent work, Saudi writer, director, and actress Sarah Taibah packs a collection of laughs, empathy, and thought-provoking elements into the TV series “Jameel Jeddan.” The show is a coming-of-age story… Source link

Yango, the international division of Yandex operating taxi, kicksharing and delivery services, has launched its taxi hailing service in test mode in the United Arab Emirates, reports Interfax. “Yandex is developing world-class technologies and services and is constantly experimenting with them on international markets. Testing of taxis in Dubai on a pilot basis is no exception,” the news agency quoted a company spokesman as saying Earlier this year, the company launched a… Source link

Yango, the international division of Yandex operating taxi, kicksharing and delivery services, has launched its taxi hailing service in test mode in the United Arab Emirates, reports Interfax. “Yandex is developing world-class technologies and services and is constantly experimenting with them on international markets. Testing of taxis in Dubai on a pilot basis is no exception,” the news agency quoted a company spokesman as saying Earlier this year, the company launched a… Source link

On the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased COVID-19 guidelines, the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement warning that at-home rapid antigen tests can deliver false negative results and people who need tests should should plan to do so more than once to make sure they are not “unknowingly spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus to others.” Health experts recommend tests for people who have been exposed to the virus or are experiencing symptoms. “Today’s… Source link

Google is testing more local service ads per set of search results, with three ads on a page instead of two. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirms the test saying the aim is to increase consumer confidence in LSAs: To confirm, this is an experiment. We’re running a small test to see the value to consumers and providers of providing one additional service provider in the Local Services Ad unit. The aim is to help consumers discover and book services from trusted providers with… Source link

Google is testing some significant changes to featured snippets. Both will give searchers a more diverse set of sources in the coveted featured snippet position.  From the web. A typical featured snippet features text from, and a link to, one website. In this From the web test, Google shows brief excerpts from two or three different websites, linking to each source separately. Google also includes the site’s favicon. Here’s an example screenshot (shared via Twitter by @vladrpt):  Other… Source link

Google has just announced the next stage of trials of its Privacy Sandbox proposal — focused on ads relevance and measurement. The Sandbox refers to an evolving — and now very closely overseen — ad targeting tech stack which Google has proposed for replacing tracking cookie based targeted advertising in Chrome by (at the earliest) the second half of 2023 with alternatives which it argues will be better for users’ privacy yet still effective for generating ad revenue. Writing in… Source link