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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment Facing antitrust scrutiny in 2008, Google initiated a campaign to limit the paper trail of internal communications. The company encouraged employees to minimize written speculation, automatically delete instant messages, and liberally apply attorney...
25 Nov, 2024, 06.42 AM ISTYahoo rejected two PhD students' $1 million offer for their site. Here's why they are still "thankful" for it Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created Google, a search engine initially rejected by Yahoo and Excite. Google's AdWords revolutionized digital advertising, propelling its growth. Yahoo missed opportunities to acquire Google, ulti...
20 Nov, 2024, 06.13 PM ISTWant extra money through side hustles? Shark Mark Cuban shares ideas that require only ChatGpt, Google's Gemini Mark Cuban shares how he would earn money if he were 16 today. He would write AI prompts and teach businesses about AI. His advice contrasts with his first job, selling garbage bags door-to-door. Cuban, now a billionaire, continues to focus on busin...
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This Indian-origin executive is Google's new chief technologist Google CEO Sundar Pichai has appointed Prabhakar Raghavan as the tech giant's chief technologist. Raghavan will be moving into the role of chief technologist after 12 years of leading other teams across the search company, Pichai said. Earlier Ragha...
18 Oct, 2024, 04.08 PM ISTYouTube CEO says Google faces plenty of ad tech competition Mohan's testimony kicked off the second week of a trial over the Justice Department's allegations that Google has a monopoly on the advertising technology market. Mohan, who joined Google as part of its acquisition of advertising software company Do...
17 Sep, 2024, 02.57 PM ISTiPhone 16: Features, release date, prices and all you need to know With the iPhone 16, Apple is emphasizing AI-powered enhancements to improve the user experience. The upcoming introduction of the new models is part of Apple's strategy to compete with other tech titans in the rapidly developing AI area.
10 Sep, 2024, 08.14 PM ISTSearch party: Google's dominance in internet search wanes amid rising app queries and AI threats The search landscape is evolving rapidly, with Google facing challenges from specialized platforms and AI-driven search experiences. Users now turn to diverse platforms like Amazon and social media for different search needs, impacting Google's heft...
30 Jun, 2024, 02.29 PM ISTTHIS tech giant has become the first $1-trillion global brand. Know how it has beaten Google and Microsoft Apple is now the first brand ever to be valued at over $1 trillion. Apple updated the artificial intelligence (AI) features of its iPhones.
13 Jun, 2024, 02.05 AM ISTTwo decades later, a look at Gmail ¡ª Google¡¯s best April Fool¡¯s joke Gmail started on April 1, 2004, as a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account. This may sound like nothing now, but in that time, it was considered a massive amount of email capacity. ETtech looks at its two-decade-long journey.
01 Apr, 2024, 04.10 PM ISTGmail is April Fool's Day joke! That's what people thought when Google revolutionised email 20 years ago Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were known for their April Fool's Day pranks, but in 2004, they unveiled something groundbreaking - Gmail. Initially seen as a joke due to its massive 1GB storage, Gmail revolutionised email with feature...
01 Apr, 2024, 09.09 AM ISTGmail at 20! Google April Fool's joke that changed global tech history Gmail came equipped with Google's search technology so users could quickly retrieve a tidbit from an old email, photo or other personal information stored on the service. It also automatically threaded together a string of communications about the s...
01 Apr, 2024, 09.08 AM ISTStatus quo for Indian apps in Google row; D2C brands push offline Google is providing an extended timeline to ten companies to pay the service fee applicable for in-app purchases made by users. According to sources, the timeline will be stretched till the time there is a concrete verdict from the Supreme Court.
05 Mar, 2024, 08.22 PM ISTETtech Explainer: Google updates could give users more control over location data The move to store sensitive location data on-device means the tech giant will not have the database to provide access to authorities who have the ‘geofence warrant’.
21 Dec, 2023, 02.47 PM ISTWhat Google argued to defend itself in landmark antitrust trial Google's lawyers are set to wrap up their arguments in the case -- US et al. v. Google -- on Tuesday, which will be followed by a government rebuttal. Judge Amit Mehta of US District Court for the District of Columbia, who is presiding over the nonj...
14 Nov, 2023, 07.00 PM ISTGoogle's 25-year journey from dorm to internet dominance Here is a look at some milestones in the history of Google, whose parent is now known as Alphabet.
27 Sep, 2023, 04.37 PM ISTGoogle celebrates 25th birthday: Here is its journey from dorm to internet dominance Here are some milestones in the history of the tech giant, whose parent is now known as Alphabet.
27 Sep, 2023, 07.39 AM ISTUS says Google cheated and tried to hide its efforts to dominate search The US Justice Department accuses Google of paying billions of dollars annually to device makers like Apple Inc , wireless companies like AT&T and browser makers like Mozilla to keep Google's search engine on top.
12 Sep, 2023, 08.41 PM ISTSusan Wojcicki: the extraordinary exit of the women of Silicon Valley Just this week, Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Business Officer Marne Levine stepped down after 12 years at the social media juggernaut. Last year, Sheryl Sandberg left her role as chief operating officer of Meta.
17 Feb, 2023, 08.32 AM ISTRepublican committee sues Google over email spam filters The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail of "discriminating" against the RNC by unfairly sending the group's emails to users' spam folders, impacting both fundraising and get-out-t...
22 Oct, 2022, 09.16 AM ISTYahoo appoints Hollywood actress Jessica Alba to board Yahoo, which sprung up during the age of desktop PCs hooked up to dial-up internet connections, has been looking to grow its offerings to compete with companies such as Alphabet Inc's Google and Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook.
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