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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

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

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

‘Bridgerton’ sex scenes don’t hesitate with body positivity—and the fans love it

In the world of ‘revenge bodies’ and ‘weight loss journeys’, it is wonderful to be unabashedly worshipped for one’s curves, as Colin does for Penelope in the famous ‘mirror scene’.

Siddaramaiah defends fuel price hike amid protests by BJP — ‘don’t we need money for development?’

BJP alleges the hike will be put towards bankrolling Congress govt's 5 guarantees in Karnataka, while CM Siddaramaiah says hike is to 'increase resource mobilisation, increase income'.

Takeaways from Doval-Sullivan meet — semiconductor partnership, co-investment in lithium project

NSA Ajit Doval met with US counterpart Jake Sullivan at 2nd meeting of initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology. Other areas of collaboration include space, biotechnology, AI.

Sangh wants BJP to know it’s not dispensable. It’s a rap on the knuckles, nothing more

Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.