WWW INVENTOR TIM BERNERS-LEE IS AGAINST AUSTRALIA’S NEWS PAYMENT POLICY

Highlights

• Berners-Lee said that he is concerned that the code risks breaching a fundamental principle of the web by requiring payment for linking between certain content online.

• On Tuesday, the President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Australi...

YOUTUBE AND WHATSAPP CLOSE TO GAINING HALF A BILLION USERS IN INDIA

HIGHLIGHTS

• In terms of popularity, YouTube is the closest rival of WhatsApp in India.
• Both YouTube and WhatsApp are very close to amass half a billion users in India.

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has very few competitors that are n...

S. KOREA ASKS FOREIGN AND LOCAL ONLINE COMPANIES TO PROVIDE STABLE SERVICES

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• S. Korea asks foreign and local online companies to provide stable services.
• Google, Facebook, Netflix, Naver, Kakao, and Wavve asked to comply with the country’s new law.
• The country will now hold service providers...

AMAZON WILL TAKE DOWN FEW QANON PRODUCTS FROM ITS WEBSITE

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• Amazon said it was taking efforts to take down some QAnon products from its online marketplace, citing policies that restrict offensive items or other inappropriate content

• Similarly tech company Apple dropped Parler from its App Store, while the cloud...

PRIVACY PLAN OF GOOGLE CHROME BEING INVESTIGATED IN UNITED KINGDOM

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• The browser privacy plan of Google Chrome is going to be investigated in the United Kingdom
• The Competition and Markets Authority or CMA said that, the privacy plan of Google Chrome may have a significant impact on the digital advertising ...

GOOGLE ONE SUBSCRIBERS CAN NOW GET 3-MONTHS OF FREE YOUTUBE PREMIUM IN UK

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• The subscribers of the Google One will now be getting a 3-month free subscription of the YouTube premium in the United Kingdom
• The offer is looking like, it will be available for some time only in the United Kingdom

One o...

TOP SEVEN TECH COMPANIES ADDED VALUE WORTH $3.4 TRILLION IN 2020

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• Tesla founder Elon Musk made it to the list of top three richest people on the planet by adding over $120 billion in net worth

• Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and Nvidia added a total $3.4 trillion together in market cap in the year...

GOOGLE IS OFFERING FREE WEEKLY COVID-19 TESTS TO 90,000 EMPLOYEES IN THE U.S.

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• The company has already announced extension of its work from policy till September 2021, which will be applicable to all its 200,000 employees worldwide

• Every employee of Google and its subsidiaries like YouTube will be eligible to sign up for a free a...

NEW EU RULES LIKELY TO FORCE U.S. TECH FIRMS TO CHANGE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN EUROPE

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• This move has been made to keep tech giants in control and curb the emergence of anti-competitive dominant companies

• As per the new draft EU rules major technology companies in the U.S. including likes of Apple and Facebook may require to change their ...

YouTube, GOOGLE, AND GMAIL ARE WORKING NOW: GOOGLE

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• While Gmail and Google Search were working fine for most of the users, it was YouTube that gave trouble to several thousands of users across the world

• According to Downdetector, more than 79 percent of Gmail users were witnessing problems in logging in...

TECH COMPANIES TO FACE 6% FINES FOR BREACHING THE NEW EUROPEAN UNION CONTENT RULES

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• The big technology companies like Facebook and Google will be facing 6 percent of fines if they the new content rules of the European Union
• The technology companies will have to do more for tackling the illegal which includes the child sex...

SEZNAM CLAIMED 417 MILLION DOLLARS FROM GOOGLE FOR RESTRICTING COMPETITION

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• Seznam.cz said that, it has claimed 417 million dollars in the damages from Google
• The company said that, Google has abused its dominant on the Czech Republic market with the licensed operating systems and application stores

GOOGLE HAS LAUNCHED COVID-19 INFORMATION PANELS FOR TACKLING MISINFORMATION ABOUT VACCINES

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• Google has launched new corona virus information panels in the search results to stop the spread of misinformation about covid-19 vaccine
• The new feature by google is going to be rolled out first in the United Kingdom

On ...

U.S. GOVERNMENT, 48 STATES FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST FACEBOOK

Highlights

• This is the second major antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. government this year as the US Justice Department in October had dragged Google to the court over similar charges

• The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James said...

GOOGLE, FACEBOOK MUST PAY TO AUSTRALIAN NEWS COMPANIES FOR PROTECTING VALUE OF ORIGINAL JOURNALISM

HIGHLIGHTS

• Australia finalized plans to make Facebook Inc and Google pay its news sources for news content, a world-first move pointed toward ensuring independent journalism that has drawn solid resistance from the web giant companies like Youtube, Facebook, and...

CALIFORNIA LAUNCHES VIRUS CONTACT-TRACING APP, BECOMES BIGGEST U.S. STATE TO DO SO

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• This app named as the CA Notify App has been launched and will become accessible to people from Thursday

• While Android users in California can download it from the Google Play store, iPhone users can activate the exposure notifications tool from the se...

UK: NEW TECHNOLOGY REGULATOR TO LIMIT THE POWER OF FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE

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• A new tech regulator of United Kingdom is going to be working for limiting the power of Facebook and Google and several other tech platforms
• The new tech regulator has been introduced in an effort for ensuring a level of playing field for ...

GOOGLE PAY WEBSITE IN U.S. WON’T SUPPORT PAYMENTS FROM 2021

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• As per a 9to5Google report, the Web version of Google Pay in the United States has already started notifying users that it would no longer allow transfer of money from January 2021

• While the site prohibits users from transferring money, it continues to...

GOOGLE FACES INVESTIGATION IN UNITED KINGDOM OVER ITS NEW DATA REVAMP SYSTEM

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• The technology giant Google again faces an investigation in the United Kingdom for revamping the company’s advertising data
• The new technology will be removing the third-party cookies, which will be allowing the users to be tracked a...

GOOGLE TEAMS UP WITH DISNEY & LUCASFILM TO BRING ‘THE MANDALORIAN’ TO AR

Highlights

• The new Android AR app will display iconic moments from the first season of the show in AR which allows fans to retrace the Mandalorian's steps, harness the Force, find the Child

• According to the announcement, new AR content will be released for th...