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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Google, Apple blocks TikTok in India after Madras HC order against video app to curb porn

Court ruling restricts future downloads, not existing downloads. It’s a big blow to app’s owner, China’s Bytedance, world’s most highly valued start-up.

14 years since launch, Google Maps will no more be free for certain advertisers

Google is increasing the ways advertisers reach Maps users while raising prices for businesses that use the underlying technology.

YouTube tries out ‘responsibility’ as a metric of success apart from watch time

The changes are supposed to reward videos that are more palatable to advertisers and public, and help YouTube ward off criticism on content.

Why is Google’s GPay operating without RBI’s authorisation: Delhi high court

The court asked the Reserve Bank of India how Google's mobile payment app, GPay, was facilitating financial transactions without requisite authorisation.

Latest Facebook data leak exposes dilemma cloud storage services like Amazon face

Amazon is in a sticky situation, for if it starts shutting down access to data breaches, it could open itself to lawsuits and risk broken trust with clients.

Google’s US workforce grew more Asian, less white & male

Earlier this year, Google employees and shareholders asked the company to make changes in areas including racial and gender diversity, and suggested tying these metrics to executive bonuses.

Facebook, Google, Twitter targeted by US for housing bias

Facebook faces a civil lawsuit for racial, religious and gender bias by restricting who can see housing-related ads on its platforms and across the internet.

What Donald Trump told Google’s Sundar Pichai

President Trump discussed military, China, political fairness & various things Google can do for America at his meeting with Sundar Pichai.

Google, Amazon, Apple can all be fixed, but not Facebook

When Facebook appropriates someone else’s content, it decides to steal its functionality. So it’s better to break it up, says antitrust expert Hal Singer.

Several tech brands besides Facebook and Google are tracking us

Facebook and Google would be able to buy data from other ad market players even if they were banned from gathering information about users’ browsing.

On Camera

Influencer is a real job. They are shaking up the internet

The reach and impact of influencers are so significant that even politicians such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi have recognised their value—the National Creators Award is proof.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India, Oman hold 5th annual high-level meeting to boost maritime security

Both the governments expressed their commitment to strengthening their maritime cooperation to strengthen the maritime safety and security framework in the region.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.