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Google is back with yet another edition of its Year in Search report, and this year, the search metrics are a hot pot of diversity, with a healthy dose of cricket, politics, and movie universe. Google's Year in Search 2019 report indicates that the Cricket World Cup and Lok Sabha...

The Centre on Wednesday introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, empowering the government to ask companies including Facebook, Google, and others for anonymised personal data and non-personal data.The move was vehemently opposed by the Congress and the TMC. Calling it a violation of "fundamental rights" of citizens, they demanded...

In a bid to offer users better password protection, Google is introducing Chrome version 79 that packs of a number of improvements, including warning to users when their password has been stolen as part of a data leak. Chrome also gets new features like phishing protection in real-time, and expanded...

The lawsuit filed by Amazon challenging a $10 billion US military cloud computing contract awarded to Microsoft will not delay implementation of the project, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Amazon has alleged that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to deny the company the massive contract...

Government holds ultimate rights and powers to seek access to users' data to help formulate policies, showed the Personal Data Protection Bill which was circulated among the Parliament members on Tuesday. IANS has viewed the Data Protection Bill. The final Bill also sees the government back down from its previously...

EU antitrust regulators are considering taking a tougher line against tech giants by forcing them to do more to ensure a level playing field, a senior European Commission official said on Tuesday, a move which could affect Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google.The four US tech companies are currently in EU competition...

Sellers Set the Prices on Their Own, Amazon India ClaimsDismissing allegations of deep discounting and predatory pricing, a top Amazon India executive on Monday asserted that sellers set their prices independently and the platform follows government rules very carefully in the country. Amazon India on Monday also announced that it...

Droom Fixes Security Flaw That Exposed Private Data, Banking Details of MillionsDroom, one of India's largest online marketplaces for buying and selling vehicles, has fixed a severe security flaw that was exposing the personal data and banking details of millions of its users. The security glitch, which was associated with...

Government Likely to Bring New E-Commerce Policy in 2020Government may bring the e-commerce policy in the current fiscal though no timeline can be given, a senior official has said. In February, the government had released a new draft e-commerce policy that provided for regulating cross-border data flows and setting up...

Amazon Lawsuit Alleges Trump Abused Power in Huge Pentagon Cloud ContractAmazon is alleging that US President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to deny the company a massive military cloud computing contract, court documents released Monday showed. The technology giant is challenging the awarding of a $10 billion...