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Google Will Pay YouTube Creators in Bid to Crash TikTok’s Party 
October 26, 2022

Calling it “a big deal” for creators, Google parent Alphabet said Tuesday it will pay top creative talent to post videos on its new YouTube Shorts platform as it aims to grab a bigger slice of a shrinking ad-spend pie while slowing the advance of...

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Google Unveils ‘More Visual’ Shopping Tools
October 20, 2022

Google is continuing its efforts to enhance its shopping offerings with new features designed to provide what it calls “a more visual experience” to people using its desktop search. According to a post on the company blog Thursday (Oct. 20) shoppers will now encounter results...

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Google Announces New Cloud Region in South Africa
October 05, 2022

Google announced Wednesday (Oct. 10) that it will launch its first African cloud region in South Africa. The announcement was made by Niral Patel, the Director of Google Cloud in Africa, during today’s Google for Africa 2022 event. “I am excited to officially announce our...

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Google Showcases 9 AI-Driven Shopping Features in Search
September 28, 2022

Google’s third annual “Search On” event Wednesday (Sept. 28) showed that the search engine giant sees enhancements to search as the big unlock from engagement to commerce, based on what one Google executive described as “frankly unprecedented” advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning....

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Google Exec Comes Out Against Paying For ISP Upgrades
September 26, 2022

A Google executive has said big tech companies shouldn’t have to pay for internet service providers’ (ISP) network-upgrade costs in the EU, a report from Ars Technica said. It comes as there’s currently a movement in Europe for tech companies to pay for broadband improvements....

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Google to Integrate Fitbit Accounts in Connected Health Push
September 25, 2022

Fitbit will be able to be used with a Google account sometime next year, following the tech giant’s acquisition of the consumer electronics and fitness company, a Fitbit help page notes. The page says Google accounts on Fitbit will come with several benefits such as...

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Publishing Class-Action Cases Spells Trouble Ahead for Google in UK, EU
September 18, 2022

U.K. newspapers have this week been reporting that the law firm Humphries Kerstetter is planning to bring a class action case against Google in the next month, with a similar lawsuit being filed in parallel by lawyers in the EU. The allegations against Google will...

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Google’s Appeal of EU’s Record Fine Nets 5% Reduction
September 14, 2022

Europe’s highest court agreed with European Union antitrust regulators and upheld most of the record $4.33 billion fine levied against Google for favoring its own Android operating system to edge out the competition. Google’s appeal to overturn the decision resulted in a 5% reduction in...

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Back-to-School Season Revives Google Learning EU Data Privacy Concerns
September 07, 2022

Even before the pandemic forced schools around the world to move classes online, learning management systems (LMS) like Google Classroom, offered as part of Google’s Workspace for Education suite, were already popular with educational institutions and formed a key component of the modern educational toolkit....