Google says shared network costs is 10-year-old idea, bad for consumers
2 years, 6 months ago

Google says shared network costs is 10-year-old idea, bad for consumers

The Hindu  

Alphabet unit Google on Monday rebuffed a push by European telecoms operators to get Big Tech to help fund network costs, saying it was a 10-year-old idea that was bad for consumers and that the company was already investing millions in internet infrastructure. The idea, floated more than 10 years ago, could disrupt Europe's net neutrality or open internet access, Brittin said. "Introducing a 'sender pays' principle is not a new idea, and would upend many of the principles of the open internet," he said according to the text of a speech to be delivered at a conference organised by telecoms lobbying group ETNO. It "could have a negative impact on consumers, especially at a time of price increases," Brittin said, citing a report by pan-European consumer group BEUC outlining such concerns.

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Google Preparing to Partner With Taiwan's MediaTek On Next AI Chip: Report
1 week, 4 days ago

Google Preparing to Partner With Taiwan's MediaTek On Next AI Chip: Report

Deccan Chronicle  

Google is preparing to partner with Taiwan's MediaTek on the next version of its AI chips, Tensor Processing Units, that will be made next year, the Information reported on Monday, citing people involved in the project. This approach gives Google a competitive edge in the AI race by reducing its reliance on Nvidia, even as rivals like Microsoft-backed OpenAI and …

Google Being Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Spent over $2bn laying people off in 2023, $700mn in 2024
1 year, 1 month ago

Google Being Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Spent over $2bn laying people off in 2023, $700mn in 2024

Firstpost  

Google spent a substantial $2.1 billion on severance packages and associated costs while downsizing its workforce by over 12,000 employees throughout 2023, as per a report by The Verge. Key contributors to this growth were Google’s core digital advertising and cloud computing businesses, which demonstrated consistent expansion, attributed by CEO Sundar Pichai to investments in generative AI. Despite the layoffs, …

Google invests £790m in first UK data centre
1 year, 2 months ago

Google invests £790m in first UK data centre

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google has unveiled a one …

EU official defends talks on Big Tech helping fund networks
2 years, 1 month ago

EU official defends talks on Big Tech helping fund networks

Associated Press  

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Internet providers warn against EU plans to make Big Tech cover telcos costs
2 years, 2 months ago

Internet providers warn against EU plans to make Big Tech cover telcos costs

The Hindu  

A group representing internet service providers across Europe said on Tuesday that a proposal to make Big Tech companies pay towards telecom operators' network costs could create systemic weakness in critical infrastructure. Telecom operators have been pushing the European Union to implement new laws that would see U.S. tech firms like Alphabet’s Google, Meta’s Facebook, and Netflix bear some of …

Regulating Big Tech gets a push
2 years, 5 months ago

Regulating Big Tech gets a push

Hindustan Times  

It was 16 years ago, in 2006, when the Oxford and Webster dictionaries recognised google as a verb to describe the act of looking something up on the internet. Through this period of boom, Google has not just retained its position as the gateway to the internet, but also entrenched it and expanded into new domains of personal digital devices …

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter
2 years, 5 months ago

Scores of Google rivals want EU tech law used in antitrust case - letter

The Hindu  

More than 40 European rivals to Google's shopping service urged EU antitrust regulators on Monday to use newly adopted tech rules to ensure the Alphabet unit complies with a 2017 EU order to allow more competition on its search page. The European Commission fined Google 2.4 billion euros five years ago and told the firm to stop favouring its shopping …

EU regulators group against big tech paying for telco infrastructure
2 years, 5 months ago

EU regulators group against big tech paying for telco infrastructure

The Hindu  

A group of European telecom regulators does not support the idea of having big tech firms such as Google and Netflix paying for telecommunications infrastructure, it said in initial findings published on Tuesday. The findings by the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications come as the European Commission is debating whether internet platforms should be obliged to fund digital …

Europe’s telcos want U.S. tech giants to help fund network costs
3 years, 4 months ago

Europe’s telcos want U.S. tech giants to help fund network costs

The Hindu  

U.S. tech giants should bear some of the costs of developing Europe's telecoms networks because they use them so heavily, chief executives of Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and 11 other major European telecoms companies said on Monday. The call by the CEOs comes as the telecoms industry faces massive investments for 5G, fibre and cable networks to cope with data and …

Facebook and Google’s New Plan? Own The Internet
3 years, 5 months ago

Facebook and Google’s New Plan? Own The Internet

Wired  

The cloud is not an abstraction. The cloud is, in fact, a network of cables and servers that cover the world: once the preserve of obscure telecoms firms, it is now, increasingly, owned and controlled by Big Tech – with Google and Facebook claiming a lion’s share. Here, in vast facilities spread across the world, your most private photos and …

Google unveils $2bn data hub in Poland
3 years, 11 months ago

Google unveils $2bn data hub in Poland

The Hindu  

U.S. tech giant Google on Wednesday launched a new cloud data hub in Warsaw -- its first in Central and Eastern Europe -- with an investment of nearly $2.0 billion. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed the new hub saying it would ensure "better service from private and public entities" and strengthen security because the data would be stored in Poland. …

The internet changed everything. Spaceflight technology could do the same
5 years, 11 months ago

The internet changed everything. Spaceflight technology could do the same

CNN  

New York CNN Business — New spaceflight technologies could reshape the global economy on a level not seen since the internet. We’re “getting beyond the realm of science fiction fans and thinking about where returns can be had.” The space economy is following the roadmap of the internet revolution: Just like in the early dot-com days, flashy Silicon Valley types …

EU: How it’s forcing Google to change
6 years ago

EU: How it’s forcing Google to change

CNN  

London CNN Business — Europe has gone after Google with tough new regulations, court battles and massive antitrust fines, forcing the company to change how it does business in the lucrative market. The latest hit came Wednesday, when EU regulators fined Google €1.5 billion for abusing its dominant position in online search advertising. EU fines against Google July 2018: €4.34 …

The EU gets it partly right with its Google fine
6 years, 8 months ago

The EU gets it partly right with its Google fine

Live Mint  

US President Donald Trump’s aggressive tweets aside, there is little to suggest that the European Union’s record $5 billion fine on Google last week was a political hitjob. The first major finding was that Google’s insistence that phone makers pre-install its apps and services on their Android phones is anti-competitive behaviour. Vestager’s other finding that Google’s barring phone manufacturers from …

Tech firms are spending more on lobbying in EU after Apple tax penalty
8 years, 6 months ago

Tech firms are spending more on lobbying in EU after Apple tax penalty

Firstpost  

U.S. tech giants Google and Facebook are among multinationals spending more in Brussels as the European Commission eyes new business regulation after last week handing Apple a 13-billion-euro tax demand. A new annual filing by Google to the EU’s Transparency Register showed it spent roughly 15-20 percent more on lobbying European Union officials and lawmakers last year than in 2014, …

Google: Huge opportunity as 5 billion to go online by 2020
9 years, 4 months ago

Google: Huge opportunity as 5 billion to go online by 2020

Firstpost  

The world’s online population will double to five billion by 2020 presenting “huge” business opportunities for tech startups on the cutting edge of the unprecedented expansion, the head of Google Europe said Thursday. Everyone with the entire Internet in their pockets,” Google Europe president Matt Brittin said in Warsaw as he opened his company’s fifth “campus” for IT startups. That’s …

Google not doing enough to address anti-trust concerns: EU watchdog
11 years, 8 months ago

Google not doing enough to address anti-trust concerns: EU watchdog

Firstpost  

The EU’s competition chief says Google isn’t doing enough to overcome concerns that it’s stifling competition, and ordered the Internet giant to come up with new ideas Paris: The EU’s competition chief says Google isn’t doing enough to overcome concerns that it’s stifling competition, and ordered the Internet giant to come up with new ideas. The European Commission has been …

Google undaunted by loss of Facebook to rival-英语点津
17 years, 5 months ago

Google undaunted by loss of Facebook to rival-英语点津

China Daily  

Google undaunted by loss of Facebook to rival Download Unfazed by rival Microsoft winning a race to partner with online phenomenon Facebook, Google wooed analysts on Wednesday with plans to wring even more riches from the Internet. "There are plenty of companies using the notion of social community," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said during the gathering at the Internet …

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