Google accused the EU today of putting Europeans’ privacy at risk after Brussels told the US giant to share search data and open up its Android operating system to AI rivals “Today’s decisions risk undermining vital privacy and security guardrails for millions of Europeans,” Google’s head of global affairs, Kent Walker, said. The EU demanded [...
The Swiss competition authority announced today it had opened a preliminary investigation into Google’s removal of the “choice screen” feature on Android devices in Switzerland. The feature allowed users to choose their default search engine during the initial setup of a new Android device, reports AFP. “Recently, Google removed this feature i...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) to investigate major global technology companies and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms over allegations of anti-competitive practices and the unlawful use of content belonging to Nigerian media organisations. The direct...
•Google and Alphabet boss, Sundar Pichai The CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet could earn up to $692 million over the next three years under a new compensation plan published yesterday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The deal would make Sundar Pichai, who has been chief executive of Google since 2015 […]
If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram and taken a screenshot of a ‘killer’ outfit on a fashion influencer, you know the struggle. You spend the next forty minutes hunting through hashtags, tags and various websites, trying to find that specific shade of adire or those exact architectural heels. Well, the hunt just became a whole […]...
•Google logo Google parent Alphabet yesterday reported blockbuster earnings, its revenue climbing as it invests massively in cloud computing services enhanced with artificial intelligence. The tech giant said revenue jumped 18 percent year-on-year in the quarter, and overall annual revenue topped $400 billion for the first time at the company ...
Google filed a notice yesterday to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that it held an illegal monopoly on online search, court records show. A US district judge decided in 2024 that the internet giant had a monopoly on search and text advertising through exclusive distribution agreements that made it the “default” option people were likely [&hell...
•Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Senator Natasha Akpoti has emerged as the most searched Nigerian in Google’s 2025 Year in Search report. She topped a list driven by major political events, cultural moments and national conversations. According to Google, the Kogi Central lawmaker drew “unprecedented public interest” as Nigerians turned to Sea...
Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said today. Tech giants, including TikTok, X, and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and [...
Google faces a fresh federal court test today as US government lawyers ask a judge to order the breakup of the search engine giant’s ad technology business. The lawsuit is Google’s second such test this year after the California-based tech juggernaut saw a similar government demand to split up its empire shot down by a […]
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