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Supporting India’s startups to accelerate the country’s digital transformation

Google leads $145M investment in India’s Glance; backs DailyHunt in $100M round – TechCrunch

 

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21 websites and apps to make your 2021 better

 

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Google Taiwan turns 15 with a new engineering hub

 

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Making every day safer with Google

 

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On International Women's Day, we're supporting new "firsts"

 

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Today, at the virtual edition of Google for India event called Women Will, our CEO, Sundar Pichai, and President of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller, made a series of announcements in support of the economic empowerment of women, both in India and globally, to create an ecosystem of entrepreneurship enablers to help narrow the gender gap.

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WomenWill - Our commitment to support economic empowerment of women in rural India

 

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State antitrust watchdogs are targeting Google’s plans to phase out third-party tracking cookies, building on a major lawsuit filed last year. The group of 15 attorneys general, led by Texas, updated its complaint about Google yesterday to include a more detailed case against the search giant, including new claims about Google’s strategic use of the Chrome browser. In particular, the new complaint takes aim at recent privacy updates to Chrome, which could better protect users’ personal data while also entrenching Google’s market position.

Filed in December, the Texas complaint is one of three ongoing antitrust cases against Google. That same month, the Colorado attorney general led a group alleging that the company stifled competition by manipulating search results. A separate case from the Department of Justice is focused on Google’s dominance of the web search marketplace and associated ad business.

Google antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox

 

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Supporting India during the current COVID crisis

We’re providing new funding and support to help people and communities in India hit hard by the country’s current COVID-19 crisis.

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Today we’re announcing 135 Crore INR ($18 million USD) in new funding for India. This includes two grants from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, totalling 20 Crore INR ($2.6 million USD).

This funding also includes increased Ad Grant support for public health information campaigns. Since last year, we’ve helped MyGov and the World Health Organization reach audiences with messages focused on how to stay safe and facts about vaccines. We’re increasing our support today with an additional 112 Crore INR ($15 million) in Ad Grants to local health authorities and nonprofits for more language coverage options.

 

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This new emoji has been years in the making

A new emoji is on its way, but it was a long journey and a lot of work to get to this point.

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