Google may be about to pair all that data it has on users’ Web browsing with the ads displayed on public billboards. Creepy? Maybe. Inevitable? Almost certainly.
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Google, the world’s biggest search engine, is welcome to return to China as long as it complies with the nation’s laws and right to control the Internet within its borders, the People’s Daily said.
Google wants to get back into China, and is laying the groundwork for a key part of the initiative: bringing its cloud business to the world’s second largest economy.
Google is preparing to launch a censored version of its search engine for China that will block results Beijing considers sensitive, The Intercept reported.
When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data. But what if you were the one making the money?
Google is still raking in marketing dollars from advertisers, propelling the online search giant to another strong quarter in the face of costly regulatory trouble in Europe.
In this episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the European Union’s record €4.3-billion fine against Google over Android – is it justified, or is the EU simply interfering in a market that doesn’t need regulating?
European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager coolly hit Google with a €4.3-billion fine last week, the biggest penalty in the history of antitrust enforcement. It didn’t have to be that way.
The European Commission had solid antitrust reasons for fining Google €4.3-billion for violations including the bundling of certain apps with the Android operating system – and for not going after Apple for similar behaviour. Yet, from a consumer’s point of view, Apple should get the same kind of attention.
Microsoft’s cloud-fuelled turnaround persisted in the fiscal fourth quarter, when sales and profit got a boost from customers signing up for more Internet-based storage, processing and Office productivity software.