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Google Assistant Can Now Speak Two Languages at a Time

31Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Google Assistant Can Now Speak Two Languages at a Time

With the voice commands and voice assistants taking up a major role in the technology race, the Google’s assistant is adapting the ability to speak with you in two languages without having to switch accounts. With this new modification, Google Home and Android smartphone owners will be able to speak in any two of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese. The Google Assistant will then reply in the language of the query it's answering. Compared to us mortals that have to undergo processes such as Effortless English accent training in order to learn new languages, Google's voice assistants just know languages automatically. It was in February that the company stated that it is working on this feature, but since then there were no updates about it ...

29Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

INDIA

Google to Partner With Four Indian Banks to Offer Online Loans

The multinational technology giant Google is reportedly teaming up with four Indian banks for the purpose of granting consumer loans online. This move comes as the fight for a $1 trillion digital finance market is intensifying. The banks that the largest search engine is partnering with include HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Federal Bank. These banks in collaboration with Google will offer instant, pre-approved loans to customers “right within Google Pay in a matter of seconds.” In this technology-driven era, internet giants are joining the league to provide financial services in the world’s fastest-growing mobile arena. Online lending is becoming the next big thing as mobile users look for small loans with minimal paperwork and formalities. This also helps to save ti...

25Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

CHINA

Google Making Efforts to Enter China With a Subsidary of Waymo

The popular technology company Alphabet Inc. is putting good efforts to build a presence in China with a new subsidiary of Waymo based in Shanghai. Waymo is one of the world's leading autonomous car designers. The company has claimed that it has set up a legal entity in the country and has people working there, however, it hasn't commented on its further plans. This move seems to be a great effort by Google to move to China where many of its Google services are blocked. However, the autonomous industry is growing so rapidly that it makes sense for Alphabet to get in as early as possible. It has also been reported that the company might not bring in an autonomous ride-hailing service in China, however, it will be focusing on logistics consulting, supply chain, and autonomous drivin...

Google Tez Expected to be Renamed as Google Pay

23Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Google Tez Expected to be Renamed as Google Pay

The digital payments space is growing at a great pace these days and Google Tez has been a predominant player along with many other companies. Google is now planning to rename Tez to Pay and integrate it under the global payment umbrella of Google Pay. Being Google’s payments app, Tez gained a lot of attraction and also has hit various targets in less time as compared to others. The app has crossed more than 50 million downloads. This move is expected to open the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a mode of payment for app purchases on Google Play Store. And as stated by the experts, it is a huge use case waiting to be tapped. "We have always maintained that we will bring payments across different platforms," Google spokesperson said. It has also been mentioned that till now Tez h...

Google One is Now Live for Users in the U.S.

16Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

USA

Google One is Now Live for Users in the U.S.

It was a few months ago that the technology giant Google announced the release of its new subscription program known as Google One. This program has been designed to get more storage on Google Drive and various other perks. The subscription program has now been rolled out and over the last few weeks, Google gradually rolled existing Drive subscribers over to a Google One membership and from now on, new users can sign up for a One subscription as well. Talking about the subscription fee, Google One plans start at 100 GB for $1.99. Along with this, there is also a 200 GB tier for $2.99 and a 2 TB option for $9.99. In case a user wants more storage space, the company will sell the user 10 TB, 20 TB and 30 TB plans for between $99.99 and $299.99 per month. An advantage of this new pro...

6Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

CHINA

Google Plans to Launch Cloud Services in China with Tencent & Others

The largest technology company Google is in advanced talks with Tencent Holdings Ltd, Inspur Group and other Chinese firms for the purpose of offering its cloud services in China as reported by people familiar with the development. The talks about this matter started in the early months of 2018 and the technology giant reduced partnership candidates to three companies in March. However, it is certainly not clear whether the plans will be a success or not in the wake of increasing trade conflicts between China and the United States. Google had already taken an exit from China's search engine market in 2010, but now it has been actively finding out methods to re-enter China, where many of its products are blocked by regulators. Through the local partnership, Google has an objecti...

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

21Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

Tech

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter Band Together For The Data Transfer Project

Four of the biggest technology companies are associating together to make it easier for the users to download and transfer their data between services. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter formally announced The Data Transfer Project (DTP) today, an open-source initiative to create new tools that ‘enable people to freely move their information across the web without any kind of hassle. The Data Transfer Project is an open source initiative “dedicated to developing tools that will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another, without needing to download and re-upload it.” With portability and interoperability as the goal, this reduces the problem of switching especially for people with limited data and then manually upload it to another product. W...

Alibaba Launches a Programme To Strengthen its Presence in India

14Jul By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Alibaba Launches a Programme To Strengthen its Presence in India

Alibaba Group, the popular Chinese conglomerate has announced the launch of its new distribution channel programme with an aim to strengthen its existence in India. The company believes that it is a great time to carry on and grow business in the country. The company had also come up with its new distribution channel programme to encourage partners to bring in-depth technical knowledge to customers, during the “India Eco Summit”. “Alibaba Cloud has always been dedicated to empower enterprises of different sizes to tap into opportunities in the digital age. With digital transformation poised to add close to $154 Bn to India’s GDP, this is a great opportunity for us to do business in India,” said Alex Li, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud Asia Pacific. With this new strategy and innovati...

Facebook’s Anna White Replaces Instagram’s PR Director

30Jun By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook’s Anna White Replaces Instagram’s PR Director

Instagram’s director of comms, Gabe Madway who provided services to the company for the past four years is resigning from his position to work for a new company by the end of the summers. It has been reported that he will be replaced by Anna White who is a part of Facebook’s internal PR team. Prior to joining Instagram, Madway was a correspondent with Reuters, before becoming an executive comms manager at Google from 2011 to 2014. Madway has worked efficiently for the company and has been one of the more level-headed and frank PR people. Anna White, on the other hand, will report to Kristina Schake, Instagram’s Global Comms director who leads from behind the scenes. Talking about her past experiences, she has also worked with Google and YouTube as a communications manager before join...

Google launches Indie Accelerator Programme for Asian Startups

29Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

Tech

Google launches Indie Accelerator Programme for Asian Startups

Google has announced a new four-month training programme for gaming startups and developers in Asia as a special edition of Google Launchpad Accelerator. Dubbed as "Indie Games Accelerator Programme", Google is targetting gaming start-ups based in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam who will have an opportunity to work with mentors from Google and the gaming industry. Anuj Gulati, Developer Marketing Manager, Google Play, stated in a blog post, We're always looking for new ways to support developers. So, as a special edition of the Launchpad Accelerator, we're announcing a new four-month Indie Gaming Accelerator to train promising developers from these countries in Asia. How will startups benefit from the program? Under the p...

Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

29Jun By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

News

Reliance Jio OS Provider Raises Investment From Google

Google is increasingly pushing itself as a startup investor as it has invested $22 million into KaiOS, the company that has built an eponymous operating system for feature phones that packs a range of native apps and other smartphone-like services. Under the new partnership, Google services like Assistant, Maps, YouTube, and Google Search will be available to KaiOS users, as informed by the Hong Kong company in a post. KaiOS CEO Sebastien Codeville in a statement, This funding will help us fast-track development and global deployment of KaiOS-enabled smart feature phones, allowing us to connect the vast population that still cannot access the internet, especially in emerging markets. It is interesting to note that KaiOS has played a significant role in pushing feature phone demand ...

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are Spying on You – Here is the Proof!

24Jun By No Comments

BLOGS

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are Spying on You – Here is the Proof!

Just the other day I received an email from Google Maps with the subject “Google Maps Timeline.” Upon clicking the email what I found left my jaw drop…quite literally! My “March in Review” apparently, was every place I had ever visited, every day of the week. It also highlighted my most frequently visited locations, the number of miles I walked, drove and unique places I visited. The only thing that was missing was perhaps the number of calories I burnt! Speaking of calories, they knew how much I walked and had all the data from my smartwatch. They knew how long I was sleeping, My REM cycle and how many times a year I fell ill. If anything, this information was a treasure trove for someone like my ex. Plus, my email is not hard to get a hold of considering that it’s logged in on my phone...