US House grills Sundar Pichai on `idiot’-Trump link in Google search
13 Dec 2018
The questioning by the House Judiciary Committee came after Trump’s multiple tweets accusing Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles about him, implying political bias as well
Google India FY18 turnover up 29% at Rs9,338 cr
12 Oct 2018
Google Tez is now Google Pay, to offer instant bank loans
29 Aug 2018
The development puts Google in direct conflict with Paytm, which is currently India’s largest digital payments company with 150 million app downloads reported
US senators quiz Google about Chinese search engine plans
06 Aug 2018
Seeking details about a reported plan to develop a censored Chinese version of the Google search engine, a bipartisan group of six US Senators have said the unconfirmed project “risks making Google complicit in human rights abuses”
Google, FB, Microsoft, Twitter join hands for Data Transfer Project
21 Jul 2018
Google says the project will let users ‘transfer data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it’, with Microsoft adding that ‘portability and interoperability are central to cloud innovation and competition
Google fined record $5bn in Europe over Android platform
18 Jul 2018
While there is no force on owners of Android smart phones or tablets to use the platform, it is not easy to download games or other apps – or services from Google’s competitors – offered by third-party developers without that
Google AI’s medical predictions prove more accurate than doctors’
19 Jun 2018
Google’s Medical Brain team is now training its artificial intelligence capabilities to predict the death risk among hospital patients — and its early results show it has slightly higher accuracy than a hospital’s own warning system
