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Cases like GoCompare show just how difficult it is to win Google’s search game

With Google's search market share at more than 80%, buying ads is the only way to get a top spot, forcing companies like GoCompare to spend on outbidding rivals.

Google blocks privacy push at the group that sets web standards

Google's move shows how it is pushing its own version of what digital privacy should look like, given that such changes could be a major threat to their business.

Modi govt plans Digital Payment campaign with Google, PayPal, Mastercard as partners

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad urged Google to use its technology to help take India’s digital economy to $1 trillion.

Google to pay record $170 million fine for YouTube child privacy breaches

The settlement represents the most significant US enforcement action against a big tech company in at least five years over its practices involving minors.

Google counters Apple, Firefox with a plan for online privacy

Google is being proactive in making sure its ideas for how the web should work are the ones that win out in the future.

Android — The defensive shield that prevented Apple from standing between users & Google

If Android had never existed, or if Google wasn’t the company behind it, smartphones would not have become the globally ubiquitous tech we now know them to be.

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance to buy Google-backed start-up Shopsense Retail

Reliance is adding Fynd as part of its focus on consumer businesses & mobile phone services as growth areas for the sprawling conglomerate.

Google invites bids for rival search engines to show up on Android phones

Starting next year, Google will prompt users to make a choice between it and 3 other rival options as the default search provider following a warning from the EU.

Trump gets an ally in Boris as a heat wave has the continent on the boil

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Privacy is dead. So, it’s time to turn data into a bargaining chip

Tech firms offer services in exchange, but the government will argue it needs your data for national security. Why not trade it then.

On Camera

Justice Abhay Oka floated filtering Article 32 cases to tackle backlog. It’s tricky

Article 32 of the Constitution guarantees the right to directly approach the Supreme Court for fundamental rights, but a massive backlog is threatening its effectiveness.

India’s aviation sector set to boom under Modi 3.0 but ‘emerging duopoly’ could hurt consumers

Sector analysts warn that with Go First expected to remain grounded & SpiceJet struggling, industry is likely to consolidate to just 2-3 player market, hampering competition.

Army hospital commandant says no misuse of disability pension grant. ‘Scrutiny at all levels’

Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.