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07.03 / 07:19

Google show country reports Female founders in India face funding biases, receive $300 million in nine-month: Report

Edtech firms bet on upskilling, higher education amid funding gloom In January this year, ventures with at least one female founder raised $74 million- 16% of the $461.7 million. Indian women excel in punctual loan repayments compared to men, shows study Fireside Ventures, Titan Capital, Rainmatter Capital, She Capital, Better Capital, Stride Ventures, Whiteboard Capital, Google for startups, Mumbai Angels, Lightbox, and All In Capital are among the leading investors that have funded women-founded ventures.

07.03 / 03:11

UPS Google CEO security Trade reports Former Google engineer charged with AI theft and alleged collaboration with Chinese firms

artificial intelligence (AI) technology from the tech giant while secretly collaborating with two Chinese companies, as per an AP report on March 6. Ding, 38, a Chinese national, was apprehended in Newark, California, and faces four counts of federal trade secret theft. Each count carries a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

06.03 / 22:27

Google security Software Trade Justice information Department Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China

06.03 / 22:27

markets MET Google Action reports Investigations Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company's board

A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool

06.03 / 19:06

SUN Google CEO Tesla reports Schools OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla spars with Elon Musk over lawsuit

Vinod Khosla, who is the cofounder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures, has called out Elon Musk for suing OpenAI. He termed Musk's move «a case of sour grapes». Khosla has been an investor in OpenAI since 2019 when the company became «for profit».

06.03 / 18:27

markets Google Gap Qualcomm Research pandemic rights MediaTek to focus on premium handsets with new 5G chipsets

MediaTek is now turning its focus to the fast-growing premium segment with its latest breed of 5G chipsets, having attained a dominant 50% market share, outpacing rival Qualcomm in the highly competitive India smartphone market, company executives and market trackers said. The chipmaker is now working with every Android phone brand with the exception of Google, with over 15 design wins in the first quarter of 2024 itself, far outpacing that of rival Qualcomm, carrying on the momentum from 2023. "Samsung and Nothing were the only two brands left who were not using MediaTek chipsets. With the recent launches this week, those gaps in the portfolio have also been plugged," said Anku Jain, managing director, MediaTek India.

06.03 / 16:27

FIVE Google CEO security Tesla wellness performer OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company

OpenAI has attacked a lawsuit from Elon Musk, saying he supported making the ChatGPT maker a for-profit company

06.03 / 16:27

markets UPS Target Digital Google Apple Browser Europe's Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here's what that will look like

Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used

06.03 / 13:21

UPS Digital Google Bill Schools Courts Google, Indian apps agree on four-month truce in billing fee faceoff

Google and Indian internet companies have agreed to a four-month extension in the timeline for payment of service fees to the Android maker. The development marks a pause in the acrimonious face-off between Indian internet firms and Google over the US firm’s billing policies that finally prompted the Indian IT ministry to step in to play peacemaker.

06.03 / 01:37

markets UPS Provident Google Platform exclusive Garena Free Fire Max redeem codes for March 6, 2024: Win free diamonds, skins and more

Garena Free Fire and has been gaining traction since the original game was banned by the Indian government in 2022. The battle royale game has won the hearts of Indian fans thanks to its intense graphics and addictive gameplay. Moreover, the developers, 111 Dot Studios, release free redeem codes on a daily basis, which only adds to the constant demand for this popular game.

06.03 / 01:11

UPS Google Platform Mobile Sustainability wellness Schools Google vs startups game makes RMG platforms interested

RMG) companies are closely watching the Google versus startups battle over service fees, as they are likely to be the next cohort of application developers to be facing the 15-30% levy beginning June this year. These companies say absorbing a 30% service fee plus 28% goods and services tax will be a double whammy of sorts and will not be sustainable for any business. They are also considering various options to mitigate the impact.

05.03 / 20:35

markets Digital Google Action Apple innovations Schools Apple’s $2 billion fine marks a new dawn for antitrust regulation

Another day, another multibillion-dollar regulatory fine from Europe that will barely dent the balance sheet of a technology giant. Only this time, the European Commission’s $2 billion penalty against Apple marks the end of an old clunky era, and the start of a new one where trust-busters can be quicker and more efficient in policing Silicon Valley’s biggest companies. Their secret weapon: a new law called the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

05.03 / 19:05

markets Digital Google Platform Apple Schools Interviews Big Tech app stores focus of EU digital crackdown: Margrethe Vestager

Margrethe Vestager said. Just days before the Digital Markets Act comes into force Vestager said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that she’s most concerned about smaller app stores being given fair access to operating systems run by companies that dominate the market like the likes of Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and Microsoft Corp.

05.03 / 17:36

Google CEO Platform WhatsApp Instagram social reports YouTube services resume after outage

YouTube and social networks Facebook and Instagram faced problems in logging into their accounts in several parts of the world, including India. Users turned to another social network X, WhatsApp and other online portals to report network outages faced while connecting to Google and Meta-owned platforms.

05.03 / 14:51

markets Google Action trends Inside reports Schools Paytm UPI payments drop in February following RBI action

Paytm Payments Bank on January 31 impacted One 97 Communication-run Paytm’s UPI payments business in February which registered a 7.6% fall in transactions over the previous month. According to data shared by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), Paytm reported around 1.3 billion transactions on UPI, a 7.6% drop from 1.4 billion in January.

05.03 / 14:33

markets UPS Digital Google CEO reports British neobank Monzo raises $430 million in Alphabet-led round to relaunch in the U.S.

British digital bank Monzo on Tuesday raised $430 million in fresh capital from investors to help it relaunch its services in the U.S.

05.03 / 14:29

markets Google Gemini Invesco performer Google stock lags behind QQQ as the Gemini controversy adds to the woes

The Magnificent Seven companies, the world’s biggest seven stocks, extended their 2023 momentum this year and continue driving the broader equity market to new peaks.

05.03 / 11:45

markets Google community information 2020 rowing play Google to reinstate all delisted Indian apps on its Play store after govt intervenes

ALSO READ: Google's move will cause ‘irreparable harm to the market’: Indian startups' plea to CCI on app delisting row In a bid to find a solution to the crisis that was being labelled as a dark day for the internet by some, both Vaishnaw and Minister of State for Information and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar held multiple rounds of discussions with Google and the app owners on Monday. Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced that Google has agreed to restore the status of Friday morning i.e. pre-delisting.

05.03 / 05:51

UPS Provident Google Racing Gemini Trade AI chatbot rivalry accelerates again with new Claude chatbots from Anthropic, an OpenAI rival

The race to build the smartest artificial intelligence chatbot completed another lap Monday when startup Anthropic unveiled a new AI model it says is more than advanced than those before it

05.03 / 05:51

markets Digital Google Apple prevention Investigations Apple gets fined nearly $2 billion by the EU for hindering music streaming competition

The European Union has fined Apple nearly $2 billion by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps

05.03 / 05:03

Twitter Google CEO Gemini Opinion shock prevention Elon Musk shocked by Gemini AI's answer on misgendering Caitlyn Jenner: 'AI mirrors mistakes of its creators'

Google over the company's Gemini AI chatbot's response to a question on whether it is valid to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. While taking a swipe at Google, Musk said that Gemini AI's insanity was staggering and explained that AI reflects the mistakes of its creators. Also Read | Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, 3 other employees are suing Elon Musk for $128 million.

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