Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro officially out
New design and processor
Google has lifted the kimono on its Pixel 6 and Google Pixel 6 Pro smartphones in a surprisingly low-key announcement.
Google managers ignore statistics on home working
Staff have to be in the office, it does not matter if they are more efficient
It seems that Google managers are ignoring the statistics which suggest the company workers are far more productive working from home.
French fine Google 500 million euro
Failed to negotiate fair deals with news publishers
Google was fined 500 million euro ($593 million) Tuesday by French competition regulators for failing to comply with an order to negotiate fair deals with news publishers for the use of their content.
Google staff furious about boss hybrid work hypocrisy
Staff forced to work in the office while executive works from a kiwi beach
Google staff are hacked off that while they are forced buy expensive houses and commute to work, top executives are allowed to work from “home” even when that home is somewhere cheaper, nicer and prettier.
Google and Apple both push you to use their apps
No one doing that well out of the app stores
While both Google and Apple are in hot water for the management of their app stores, it appears that they both are fronts for their own software.
US states sue Google over app store
Tame Apple Press rejoices
Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general sued Google alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones.
Apple loves Google really
Particularly on the cloud
Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough so that over the past year it has dramatically increased the amount of Apple user data it stores in Google's cloud,
Former Googlers come up with a paid for search engine
No wait, they might have something
Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant but now they are offering a paid-for search engine.
Google delays third party cookie phase out
A year later than planned
Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later than originally planned.
Google-paid politician angry that Microsoft is not a bad guy
Wants Vole dragged into antitrust hot water
Republican politician Jim Jordan, who takes home lots of campaign funds from Google is apparently furious that Microsoft does not appear to be involved in any antitrust hot water.