Josh, an Indian short video-sharing app like TikTok has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese app was banned in the country.

Indian version of TikTok, Josh, gets Google, Microsoft backing in $100 million fund raise

A coalition of 38 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google Thursday focusing on the design of the tech giant’s search engine. It’s the third major antitrust lawsuit filed against the search giant this year.

Google accused of search manipulation in third major antitrust lawsuit

After facing heavy criticism for not doing enough to stem misinformation ahead of the U.S. presidential election, YouTube announced last week it would remove videos that alleged fraud had changed the outcome of the contest.

YouTube faces complaints of lax approach on overseas election misinformation

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced that he was leading a lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of taking "illegal" actions to hurt competition in the advertising technology market.

Texas suing Google over alleged anti-competitive ad tech practices

Several services of Google such as YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive have stopped working in several parts of the world, especially in India. The news broke out a few minutes ago as several people took to Twitter to share the news.

Monday blues: Google Drive, Gmail, YouTube face downtime; Twitter reacts

Australia locked in plans on Tuesday to make Facebook Inc and Google pay its media outlets for news content, a world-first move aimed at protecting independent journalism that has drawn strong opposition from the internet giants.

Australia to make Facebook, Google pay news outlets for content

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Canada plans to impose a tax on corporations providing digital services from 2022 that will stay in place until major nations come up with a coordinated approach on taxation, the Finance Department said on Monday.

Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google

Some 75 major tech players are backing a French initiative committing them to make a "fair tax contribution" in countries where they operate. French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled the "Tech For Good" initiative at the Elysee Palace on Monday in a move designed to draw up the ground rules for ensuring the internet is a borderless "free, open and safe space".

Fair tax contribution: 75 major tech players sign the French initiative

A global study conducted by Google has found that the use of filters to enhance selfies is widespread in India and the United States. Also read: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal on coronavirus triggers Twitter spat with Nikki Haley According to the study, Indian respondents, unlike Germany, expressed low levels of concern about the impact of filters on their children’s wellbeing.

Use of filters to enhance selfies is widespread in India: Google Report

Social media giant Facebook on Friday offered the first-ever estimate of hate speech prevalence on its platform. Facebook's rivals Twitter and YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc's Google, do not disclose comparable prevalence metrics.

In a first, Facebook offers estimate of hate speech prevalence on its platform

The re-emergence of a popular expression used in discourse by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has online media clients scrambling to look into the World Economic Forum's "Great Reset," recently excused by some as a mere conspiracy theory.

'Great Reset' conspiracy theory takes Twitter by storm after Trudeau's speech on COVID-19

We have all enjoyed the free and almost unlimited storage space in Google Photos till now. However, the tech giant has decided to put a stop to it. Earlier, Google Photos allowed users to store pictures and only counted the 'original' quality, instead of the 'compressed; high quality, for measuring the leftover storage.

Google Photos stops free uploads; limits storage space

While the rest of the US economy languished earlier this year, the tech industry’s biggest companies seemed immune to the downturn, surging as the country worked, learned and shopped from home.

Big Tech continues its surge ahead of the rest of the economy

As tech giants faced an intense hearing on Senate on Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was in the centre to face the ire of conservative lawmakers. "My concern is that these platforms have become powerful arbiters of what is true and what content users can access," said Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Commerce Committee, as quoted by the news agency AFP.

'Who the hell put you in charge?' Republicans lash out at tech giants during Senate debate

It was billed as a must-watch showdown between US Senators and big tech. What we got instead was a political slugfest. The Q&A revolved around content moderation.

Big tech CEOs Senate hearing turns into a political slugfest

A unique situation unfolded itself as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled to appear remotely for a US Senate hearing. Network or connection issues are generally faced by ordinary internet users but for Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of a tech giant and social media Czar to have difficulty connecting was a unique situation indeed.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit by 'bad connection', causes delay in US Senate hearing

When Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, the chief executives of Apple and Google, were photographed eating dinner together in 2017 at an upscale Vietnamese restaurant called Tamarine, the picture set off a tabloid-worthy frenzy about the relationship between the two most powerful companies in Silicon Valley.

Apple, Google and a deal that controls the internet

India-born judge Amit Mehta has been assigned US Justice Department's lawsuit against Google. Amit Mehta is an Obama appointee and is a district judge. US Justice Department has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google to stop it from unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms.

India-born Judge Amit Mehta to decide on lawsuit against Google

Months before the US election, the Democratic President elect Joe Biden's election campaign was targeted by a group of Chinese hackers in a phishing attack. A Google report by the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has now claimed that the attack coordinated by a group of Chinese hackers are faking antivirus software McAfee to target the suspects.

Chinese hackers targeting Biden and Trump are faking McAfee software: Google

Bosses of tech giants like Facebook, Twitter and Google have declined to appear before a panel of US Senate, said a Republican Senator. The panel had unanimously voted on Thursday to summon Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Google's Sundar Pichai.

Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai decline to appear before US Senate

Ahead of the US election 2020, the tech giant Google has decided to add some features related to the elections and voting which can help the voters through the process.

Google launches election-related features weeks before US election 2020

There seems to a glitch in Google's algorithm. Fans of Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma and Ace Afghanistan legs spinner Rashid Khan were in for a surprise on Monday as Google search on the cricketer suggest that Sharma is his wife.

Google is showing Anushka Sharma as Rashid Khan's wife. Here's why

After a long battle bwteeen Fortnite and Apple Inc, it is now Google Play Store which has been caught in a battle for commission rates with app developers. South Korea has started a probe into the Google's plan of charging 30 per cent commission for the apps on the Google Play Store — similar to Apple.

South Korean developers request change in 30% commission for Google Play Store

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