Google, Meta, Twitter and Microsoft agreed on Thursday to take a firm stance against disinformation as part of an amended European Union of conduct, which could result in large fines if they don’t.

Google, Twitter and Meta pledge to fight fake news

Online platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok will be required to register and open offices in Nigeria and appoint contact persons with the government, draft regulations from the information technology development agency show.

Nigeria to require social media platforms to open local offices

Female employees that sued Google for paying them less than men in equivalent positions have won $118 million in settlement with the tech giant. 15,500 female employees who have worked for the company in California since September 2013 had alleged that Google assigned lower positions than men with similar experiences because they had previously earned smaller salaries.

Female employees who sued Google for paying them less than men in equal positions win $118 mn in settlement

Is the world ready for AI with emotional intelligence? A Google engineer says its AI 'Sentient'. Google, however, has sidelined the engineer for 'sentient' claims.

Do robots have feelings? Google engineer says its AI 'Sentient'

In a shocking development, a Google engineer, who claimed that an AI chatbot he was working on thinks like a human being, has been placed on leave last week. According to the techie, the computer chatbot had become sentient and it had the ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child.

Is it true? Google techie claims AI chatbot can think like a human being, gets placed on leave

After finding that a YouTube commentator's "relentless, racist, vilification, abusive and defamatory campaign" drove John Barilaro to quit politics prematurely, an Australian court has ordered Google to pay A$715,000 ($515,000) to the former senior lawmaker.

Australian court orders Google to pay $515,000 to former lawmaker over defamatory YouTube videos

Google has lost a defamation case filed by a Retired Australian MP. The court observed that Google defamed the Retired Australian MP by hosting videos on YouTube.

Court: Google defamed Retired Australian MP by hosting videos on YouTube

In the world of tech markets, Apple and Google are the leading powers. The latter made its name dominated as the most used search engine as no other engine comes close to Google’s popularity.

Apple to launch its search engine and compete with Google: Reports

Google has been indulged in a caste discrimination row. Google manager has accused Google of toxic work culture and has quit over scrapped lecture.

Google caste discrimination row: Manager accuses Google of toxic work culture

A group of Democratic Party lawmakers in the US has urged Google to stop collecting smartphone location data that potentially can be used to identify women who have opted for abortions.

US lawmakers urge Google to stop location tracking of abortion seekers

American multinational technology company Google, which is facing a new Big Tech antitrust bill, has been under increasing pressure after a three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals revived a part of Florida's social media law to disclose the standards they use to moderate content on its platform.

With growing pile of antitrust woes, how long can Google own internet?

Google’s Russian subsidiary is planning to file for bankruptcy after the local authorities seized its bank accounts, assets and property, according to Reuters news agency.

Google’s Russian unit to file for insolvency, no funds to pay salaries to employees

Google's Russia unit is expected to file for bankruptcy as the bank account of Google's Russian subsidiary has been seized amid the Ukraine crisis.

Google's Russia unit to file for bankruptcy as bank account of Google's Russian subsidiary seized

Alphabet Inc is a conglomerate of companies, the largest of which is Google. Web surfing and searching, cloud computing, streaming entertainment, mobile operating systems and apps, are among the company's software and Internet-related services and solutions. But how does Google make money?

Google's (Alphabet) business model: How it makes money

How does Google make money?

The strong headwinds in the global economy have wiped off a whopping $7 trillion in market value from blue chip stocks in the S&P 500. Since the end of December last year, the index has dropped approximately 18 per cent.

Big slump: US stock markets lost more than $7 trillion this year

Google is all set to ban third-party call recording apps on its play store, this simply means that you may no longer be able to record your calls incomplete discretion and the call recording applications installed on your smartphones will stop working as the tech giant has updated its Play Store policy.

Tech giant Google to ban third-party call recording application

From Google to Meta: Tech giants dominating Wall Street's trillion-dollar club

Privacy has become a big concern for netizens. Nowadays, one can also find several kinds of personal information in Google search results. To help people protect their privacy, Alphabet Inc's Google has finally started to take requests for removal of results containing information like phone numbers, home addresses and email accounts, a Reuters report said.

Right to be forgotten: Google begins to take requests for removal of search results with personal info

Chrome users have been warned as Google revealed 30 new security flaws, including seven that pose a 'high' threat. The tech firm has warned billions of users that the browser has been successfully targeted by hackers.

Warning to billions of Chrome users! Google says browser successfully targeted by hackers

Aiming to stop or cut down the use of politically incorrect words online, Google has launched an "inclusive language" function to avoid biases, slang or expressions that discriminate against groups of people on the basis of race, gender or socioeconomic status.

Not just spelling and grammar, Google will now warn you for using politically incorrect words

Alphabet unit Google, Meta and other large online platforms will have to do more to tackle illegal content or risk hefty fines under new internet rules agreed between European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday.

European Union sets new online rules for Google, Meta to curb illegal content

The promise of pure-bred puppies has taken the online world by storm after several incidents of puppy scams were reported across the United States. The shocking incident emerged after Google filed a lawsuit against a conman based in Cameroon for defrauding thousands of people by “perpetrating a puppy fraud scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for personal gain.

Online puppy scam: People tricked into paying for canine that never arrived

Popular Muslim prayer apps, with more than 10 million downloads, are among other applications that have been banned by Google, a popular tech site Gizmodo reported.

Muslim prayer app, others banned by Google after finding spyware linked to US national security contractor

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