Tag: Google
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After Google, Facebook to make arbitration for harassment claims optional
Facebook is also planning to do away with its policy of requiring employees to settle sexual harassment claims made against colleagues in private arbitration alone.
November 10, 2018 -
Microsoft doesn’t use customers’ data for profit: Satya Nadella
"Customers must be in control of their data. It is our collective responsibility to keep the data safe," the Microsoft CEO had emphasised in May.
November 6, 2018 -
‘Dead serious’: Sundar Pichai on Google sacking 13 senior staff over ‘sexual harassment’
Google has sacked 48 people including 13 senior managers over sexual harassment claims since 2016.
October 26, 2018 -
Doodle 4 Google contest: Public online voting opens from today
The online voting, which began on Tuesday, will continue till November 6 (until 10 a.m.). People can cast their votes on the Doodle 4 Google 2018 voting page.
October 23, 2018 -
Google-owned YouTube back online after global outage
Following the restoration of services, the YouTube team took to Twitter to thank the users for their patience during the outage period.
October 17, 2018 -
Google to shut down Google+ after bug exposes 500000 users’ data
The flaw detected in March exposed private user data, including information such as occupation, gender, age, and email addresses, to third-party developers, says Google
October 9, 2018 -
Apple dislodges Google to become world’s top brand in 2018, Facebook falls to ninth place
According to the ranking, Apple's brand value grew 16 per cent (year-on-year) to $214.5 billion. It went on to become the first company in the US to hit the $1 trillion market cap.
October 4, 2018 -
Opting out of the rat race
There is no denial that education is important but one must be taught outside the boundaries of a conventional degree.
October 2, 2018 -
Videos on YouTube telling people ways to hack Facebook accounts reports media
Some YouTube videos, which were seen several thousand times, described a method similar to the one used by the hackers to get access to the millions of Facebook accounts.
September 30, 2018 -
Google may pay USD 9 bn to remain default search engine for iPhone’s Safari browser on iOS
According to Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall (via Business Insider), this number would only continue to grow, potentially leading to a payment of $12 billion in 2019.
September 29, 2018 -
Sundar Pichai meets GOP lawmakers amid privacy issues, Google’s re-entry into China
Pichai's meeting with about two dozen Republican lawmakers was scheduled to be held in the Capitol office of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who represents a district in Google's home state of California.
September 29, 2018 -
Google bats for individual privacy as Sundar Pichai heads to Washington, DC
Google said companies must be transparent about the types of personal information they collect, why they collect it, and how they use or disclose it, particularly when used to make decisions about the individual.
September 26, 2018 -
Google rolls out audio streaming, download quality controls for YouTube Music on Android OS
Google officially announced audio streaming and download quality controls along with the promise to adopt a more consistent update cycle for YouTube Music.
September 23, 2018 -
Google asks employees to delete China search engine memo: Report
The China search engine would link users' search history to their personal phone numbers, according to the memo.
September 22, 2018 -
Google still allows third-party apps to read your Gmail: Report
Gmail has nearly 1.4 billion users globally -- more users than the next 25 largest email providers combined.
September 21, 2018 -
Google honours legendary German artist Oscar Schlemmer with a doodle
He helped in modernizing the curriculum at the Stuggart Academy of Fine Art-a place where he had studied on a scholarship. But it was in the Bauhaus school, that he created his best-known work- "Das triadisches Ballett" or "The Triadic Ballet"
September 4, 2018 -
Google announces new AI technology to combat online child sexual abuse
Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material online.
September 4, 2018