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Pentagon awards $9 billion cloud computing contracts to Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Oracle

The contracts will run until 2028 and provide the Department of Defense with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud services across all security domains and classification levels.

Google launches anti-misinformation project in India to prevent violence

The initiative will use 'prebunking' videos – designed to counter false claims before they become widespread – circulated on the company's YouTube platform and other social media sites.

New Zealand to make Google & Meta pay for news content

New Zealand's Minister of Broadcasting hoped that the new legislation — similar to Australian & Canadian laws — would help digital platforms reach deals with local news outlets.

Google Doodle celebrates geologist Marie Tharp, known for groundbreaking maps of ocean floor

In 1998, the US Library of Congress declared Tharp as one of the greatest cartographers of the 20th century.

Indian Navy pilots haven’t landed on an aircraft carrier in 2 yrs & won’t anytime soon. Here’s why

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Google pauses use of its internal billing system for app developers in India following CCI order

Last month, CCI had hit Google with two antitrust penalties ($113 mn & $162 mn) and said not to restrict app developers from using third-party billing or payment processing services.

Meet the 3 young Indians whose probing landed Google with a Rs 1,338 cr anti-trust fine

Probe against Google began in 2019, based on information submitted to Competition Commission of India by then research associates Umar Javeed & Sukarma Thapar & law student Aaqib Javeed.

CCI orders Google to allow third-party payments, ensure transparency about service fees

Competition Commission of India also slapped Rs 936-cr fine on Google Tuesday. In a 199-page order, CCI asked the firm to adopt 8 remedies or operations adjustments within three months.

Want to delete Chrome from your Android? All about competition watchdog’s ruling against Google

Competition Commission of India fined Google Rs 1337.76 cr for abusing its dominant position and ordered it to stop anti-competitive practices that also affect consumer choice.

Google fined Rs 1,337.76 crore by Competition Commission for ‘anti-competitive practices’

The tech giant has been fined for anti-competitive practices on Android. CCI also ordered Google not to offer any incentive to smartphone makers for carrying its search services.

On Camera

A city without water is a harbinger of a thirsty planet

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last year. Now Tehran is facing the same emergency.

Rupee’s turmoil has echoes of 2013

With the US-India trade deal yet to get done, rupee depreciation may be helping to mitigate India’s loss of competitiveness. The other problem is extreme despondence among overseas equity investors.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.