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France fines Google $593 million for failing to pay media companies fairly for news

Google is facing a global onslaught as regulators across the world sharpen scrutiny of the largest tech firms, their advertising business, apps and search.

Google to McKinsey — The story of how ‘employee activism’ rose

In ‘Brand Activism’ Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler write that if talent is rebelling, companies need to listen and establish a response protocol.

Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, Google over social media bans

Trump filed three lawsuits that seek court orders to restore his social media accounts, along with punitive damages, to ensure other users can’t be banned or flagged by tech giants.

Difficult for WhatsApp to implement traceability mandated by new IT rules, FB tells MPs’ panel

Social media giants Facebook & Google deposed before Standing Committee on IT and said they don't read users' messages & emails, and that they take privacy of users very seriously.

Facebook, Google officials depose before parliamentary panel over misuse of social media

Facebook and Google officials had been summoned by a parliamentary panel chaired by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, focused on safeguarding citizens' rights on social media platforms.

Jio-Google phone dream for millions but only MRP will shake them up — when September comes

Mukesh Ambani wants to make India ‘2G-mukt’. To a lay person that’s not a big deal, to a telecom geek, it’s nothing short of a spiritual awakening.

Lina Khan, the Pakistani-American who will police Amazon, Google, Apple as new US FTC chief

Lina Khan will need 5-member majority for enforcement decisions, but will have significant control over those who conduct the FTC's competition, consumer-protection investigations.

Reliance-Google cheap smartphone faces supply chain snags, but Ambani will unveil it 24 June

Mukesh Ambani's Google-powered smartphone is facing headwinds with rising component prices and fall in volume but a delay in its launch can be a significant setback for Reliance.

Stung by French fine, Google promises to change its advertising model around the world

Google said it is committed to working proactively with regulators everywhere to make improvements to its products, and that it will be 'testing & developing behavioural changes'.

After Apple, Google decides to let Android users opt out of tracking by advertisers

The option will become available in late 2021 with a Google Play services update. However, unlike Apple, users won’t be opted out of ad tracking by default.

On Camera

Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

What’s standing between Modi & Trump? India’s contradictions

Psychoanalysing Donald Trump is a booming global business. We in India are doing our bit. The only objective, however, is to find a way...