I-Day: Google Doodle with kites symbolizes great heights achieved by India

 

Google on Monday, showed a doodle on its hunt page to observe India's 76th Independence Day. The Doodle, outlined by Kerala-based visitor craftsman Neethi, shows India celebrating 75 years of its Independence on August 15 with taking off kites representing the nation has accomplished incredible levels.

Freedom Day 2022 Doodle "portrays the way of life around kites - from the art of making brilliant wonderful kites to the merry experience of a local area meeting up. The huge field of sky brilliantly dotted with taking off kites is a bright image of the incredible levels we have accomplished. The GIF liveliness adds dynamism and brings the doodle alive."

This day remembers India's autonomy from provincial rule following two centuries of mistreatment and concealment because of the British. The festival of Independence Day praises the penances and enthusiastic endeavors of our bold chiefs and political dissidents who gave as long as they can remember for the country and the kinsmen.

Sharing his thinking about the Doodle, craftsman Neethi said that perhaps of our fondest memory, the well established custom of kite-flying has been essential to the Indian Independence Day merriments.

Political dissidents utilized kites to compose hostile to frontier mottos and flew them overhead as a characteristic of dissent.

Neethi said "A Kites are likewise a source for imaginative articulation large numbers of them convey popular themes or even friendly messages. I have drawn kites portraying our public tones, a message of adoration and remembering the 75 years of Indian freedom. They fly as high as high rises, birds and I might want to trust the sun!"....Read More

Google's first foldable phone Pixel Notepad delayed to 2023: Report

 

Tech goliath Google has supposedly deferred the arrival of its first foldable cell phone, the purported Pixel Notepad foldable phone, until 2023.

As indicated by SamMobile, following the pushback, the principal foldable phone from Google is presently allegedly booked to stir things up around town the following spring.

According to the report, it is too soon to tell, and there are a lot of unwarranted hypotheses zooming around concerning why Google might have deferred its most memorable foldable telephone to spring 2023.

A new report said that the gadget might cost not exactly the $1,799 Galaxy Z Fold 3.

In Android 12L Beta 2 new movements were found that portray how to embed a SIM card into the forthcoming foldable phone....READ MORE

Google found to unfairly block rival payments on India store: CCI

 

Google's charging framework for application designers is "unjustifiable and oppressive," India's antitrust controller said in the underlying discoveries of a broad examination, preparing for likely punishments in future.

The Competition Commission of India observed Google oppressed engineers in its Play store charging strategy, as per archives seen by Bloomberg News. The discoveries come following a months-in length examination set off by fights from designers, who've grumbled the US web goliath charges an unjustifiably high expense as a trade-off for utilizing Android application stores and its exclusive installments administration.

Letter set Inc., Google's parent, and Apple Inc. have gone under strain from controllers all over the planet who blame the twin portable goliaths for constraining engineers to utilize their installment frameworks, then, at that point, taking an outsized cut of income. In South Korea, Google had to give an elective charging framework after administrative activity. In that market, Google said it was decreasing application producers' expenses by 4%.

"Google is forcing out of line and biased conditions disregarding guidelines," the Indian organization said in its starter report dated March 14.

"Google's direct is additionally bringing about disavowal of market admittance to contending UPI applications since the market for UPI empowered advanced installment applications is multi-sided, and the organization impacts will prompt a circumstance where Google Pay's rivals will be totally avoided from the market over the long haul," it expressed, alluding to the Unified Payments Interface or state-upheld installments framework.

Aus legislation to make Google, Fb pay for news in parliament next week

 

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will acquaint milestone enactment with power Alphabet's Google and Facebook to pay distributers and telecasters for content one week from now, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Friday.

Australia is on course to turn into the principal nation to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content, enactment that is as a rule firmly watched around the planet.

"The bill will currently be considered by the parliament from the week initiating 15 February 2021," Frydenberg said in a messaged explanation.

With bipartisan help, the enactment - which Google says is "unfeasible" and will drive it to pull out of the nation inside and out - could come into law this month.

The increasing speed of the bill came as a senate advisory group looking at the proposition suggested no corrections.

Delegates for Google and Facebook didn't promptly remark when reached by Reuters.

The U.S. search and web-based media goliaths have squeezed Australia to relax the enactment, with senior heads from the two organizations holding converses with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Frydenberg.

Google a week ago dispatched a stage in Australia offering news it has paid for, striking its own substance manages distributers in a drive to show the proposed enactment is pointless.

A month ago Reuters said it had marked an arrangement with Google to be the principal worldwide news supplier to Google News Showcase. Reuters is possessed by news and data supplier Thomson Reuters Corp.

Mukesh Ambani sold dreams to tech giants for $27 bn. Now he has to deliver

 

Mukesh Ambani spent a lot of 2020 persuading Facebook Inc., Google and a grip of Wall Street heavyweights to become tied up with his vision for one of the world's most yearning corporate changes.

Presently flush with $27 billion in new capital, Asia's most extravagant man is feeling the squeeze to convey.

The 63-year-old Indian big shot is centered around a small bunch of needs as he attempts to turn Reliance Industries Ltd. from an old-economy aggregate into an innovation and online business titan, as per ongoing public explanations and individuals acquainted with the organization's arrangements.

These incorporate creating items for the foreseen turn out one year from now of a nearby 5G organization; consolidating Facebook's WhatsApp installments administration into Reliance's computerized stage; and coordinating the organization's web based business contributions with an organization of actual mother and-pop shops the nation over. Ambani is likewise pushing forward with plans to sell a stake in Reliance's oil and petrochemical units, an arrangement he had initially trusted would pay off past commitments and account his cutting edge turn recently.

Speculators are keeping a close eye on Ambani as he redesigns his realm - with a market estimation of $179 billion - in a pandemic, swimming into profoundly serious ventures and taking on opponents from Amazon.com Inc. to Walmart Inc. Dependence shares rose as much as 55% this year to a record-breaking high in September, however they've since pared gains as partners search for more proof that Ambani can execute.

Nandan Nilekani, prime supporter and director of Infosys Ltd., models for a photo in Bengaluru, India, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2019. Infosys, the Indian programming producer that is fighting informant claims about its accounts, looked to guarantee speculators on Nov. 6 that the allegations have had little effect on the organization's capacity to win contracts.

"The jury is out," said Nandan Nilekani, who helped to establish Infosys Ltd. in 1981 and now fills in as administrator of the Bangalore-based programming administrations supplier esteemed at about $72 billion. "There's a great deal of work to be finished."

Google Photos to end its free unlimited storage on June 1, 2021

 

Google has declared that it will before long beginning charging for Google Photos stockpiling once clients transfer more than 15GB onto their records.

Beginning June 1, 2021, all new photographs and recordings supported up in high caliber will tally toward the free 15GB of capacity that accompanies Google Account or any extra stockpiling that client may have bought, a similar way other Google administrations like Google Drive and Gmail as of now do.

"Any photographs or recordings you've transferred in High quality before June 1, 2021 won't tally toward your 15GB of free stockpiling. This implies that photographs and recordings sponsored up before June 1, 2021 will in any case be viewed as free and absolved from as far as possible. You can check your reinforcement quality whenever in the Photos application by going to back up and match up in Settings," Shimrit Ben-Yair, VP, Google Photos said in an assertion.

When the change produces results, more than 80% of current Google Photos clients should even now have the option to store around three years of substance with that free 15GB. Google will advise you in the application and by email once you draw near to hitting your 15GB cutoff.

The main clients that will be absolved from this approach change are Pixel cell phone clients, who will at present have the option to transfer "high caliber" photographs with no cutoff points after June one year from now.

Google asserts that the purpose behind the change is to furnish clients with a greater encounter and plans to additionally create Google Photos later on.

It appears to be a simple path for Google to push individuals to pay for its Google One plans. The organization reported the fundamental arrangement beginning from 100 GB at the cost of Rs 130 every month, and Rs 1,300 per year to a 30 TB plan, which costs Rs 19,500 every month.

Google to launch subscription-based VPN services; rollout in the US soon

 

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said on Thursday it intends to dispatch a VPN administration for buyers, which would be accessible with certain membership plans for its Google One distributed storage administrations.

Intended for secure web utilization, virtual private organizations (VPNs) are utilized by people in nations where admittance to specific destinations and administrations have been banned by governments.

Google said the VPN administration will turn out in the U.S. in the coming a long time through the Google One application for Android clients, with plans to grow to more nations and to iOS, Windows and Mac working frameworks in the coming months.

(Announcing by Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)

(Just the feature and image of this report may have been adjusted by the Business Standard staff; the remainder of the substance is auto-produced from a partnered feed.)

Google Stadia tests game streaming on a 4G or 5G mobile network

Google has reported another Stadia try that lets clients mess around on cell phones over 4G and 5G cell systems.
Up to this point, endorsers were just ready to utilize the game-spilling administration on Android gadgets just when associated with consistent Wi-Fi.
"On the off chance that you might want to be a piece of this Experiment, you can pick in to cell play by opening the Stadia application on an Android telephone, tapping on your symbol in the upper right corner, choosing Experiments, and afterward picking Use Mobile Data. We'll have more select in programs later on as we bring considerably increasingly supportive highlights to Stadia," the organization said in an announcement.
In any case, Google has not point by point how much information gushing a game on Stadia will devour. Likewise, it is hazy at what goal the games will be playable over 4G or 5G systems.
The new Stadia test went live on Tuesday and has begun showing up for clients.
US based internet searcher mammoth as of late included the OnePlus 5, 6 just as 7 arrangement cell phones to the rundown of upheld gadgets for its Stadia game-spilling stage.
The game gushing assistance as of now bolsters the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro, just as other Android gadgets like Google's Pixel 2, 3, 4 arrangement, Samsung's Galaxy S8, S9 and S10 arrangement.

The accompanying OnePlus models are currently completely good with Stadia: OnePlus 5 and 5T, OnePlus 6 and 6T, OnePlus 7, 7 Pro, 7 Pro 5G, 7T, 7T Pro, 7T Pro 5G. These OnePlus telephones join the most recent OnePlus cell phones and a large group of other completely bolstered gadgets where you can make the most of your Stadia library.

Google Assistant for KaiOS gets Google Lens-like text translation feature

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Google on Tuesday reported Google Lens-like content interpretation highlight to its Google Assistant for KaiOS. In review, Google declared camera-based interpretation highlight to Google Lens at its I/O 2019. The component permit clients to interpret text just by pointing the telephone's camera at text. This component has from that point forward be embraced in various Google administrations, including Google Go.
Presently, the element is accessible with Google Assistant for KaiOS fueled telephones, including Reliance JioPhone, JioPhone 2 and Nokia 8110.
"From Assistant, they (clients) can tap the camera symbol to just point their telephone at true content (like an item name, road sign, or archive, for instance,) and have it perused back in their favored language, interpreted, or characterized. Simply long press the middle catch from the home screen to begin with Assistant," said Google in an announcement.
The decipher highlight for Google Assistant is right now accessible for English and a few Indian dialects including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil. It will before long be accessible in Kannada and Gujarati, as well. Press the privilege delicate key once inside Google Assistant interface to access and utilize this component.
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"This is another progression in our pledge to make language progressively open to everybody, and we trust this will empower a large number of KaiOS clients the nation over to have an increasingly consistent language experience," the announcement included.

Propelled in India in 2017, Google Assistant for KaiOS brings highlights like incorporated voice composing, voice-based language choice, and backing for Indian dialects to help first-time web clients defeat hindrances to education and communicate with innovation and their gadgets all the more normally.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a virtual meeting with PM Modi

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  New Delhi: Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressing a program to announce the Digital Unlocked'' skill program, in New Delhi on Wednesday.PTI Photo by Manvender Vashist(PTI1_4_2017_000071B)

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have had a relationship for at any rate five years now, and they are currently talking about new strides for the post-Covid period.
Pichai, who had in a keynote address invited Modi to the Silicon Valley in September 2015, met the PM for all intents and purposes on Monday morning to talk about financial open doors during the pandemic. The attention was particularly on pulling in FDI into India and the job of innovation monsters in pivoting the economy.
An administration official affirmed that Pichai and Modi had a discussion without explaining on it. Pichai is set to address a virtual crowd in a discussion 'Google for INDIA 2020' later on Monday.
The PM had in an ongoing worldwide gathering emphasized that India was laying honorary pathway for every single universal organization and that India was a vastly improved outside venture goal than numerous others. He had additionally explained that the Aatmanirbhar Bharat conspire was about confidence, yet not tied in with closing out outside speculators.
During his first spell as PM, Modi had visited the central station of American partnerships and furthermore welcomed US majors like Facebook and Uber to New Delhi in a major occasion to commend new businesses.

With Google, India has had numerous joint efforts for government activities, incorporating with Indian Railways.

46% drop in hiring at Microsoft in April, only 3 jobs openings at LinkedIn

Tech giant Microsoft has seen nearly 46 per cent drop in recruitment activity while its professional career website LinkedIn has listed even worse - just 3 openings for its entire operation amid coronavirus crisis.
According to data compiled by alternative data platform Thinknum, Satya Nadella-run tech giant listed 5,580 openings on its main careers site on March 22.
"By April 20, that number sunk to 3,028, a 46% drop in hiring activity," said the platform that allows investors to get data-driven investment ideas by monitoring companies' websites.
On March 1, LinkedIn listed 510 openings.
"Microsoft-owned career website LinkedIn has seen an even starker drop in hiring. As of this week, LinkedIn shows only 3 openings for its entire business," the web platform revealed.
LinkedIn's main source of revenue comes from job listings but there are very few new jobs as industries after industries are being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to Thinknum, the hiring slowdown at Microsoft is across the board.
"Of the 20 categories for which the company hires, all have seen drops in openings. None, however, more so than engineering, for which Microsoft is typically hiring for thousands of openings," it revealed.
Not just Microsoft, Google which hired 20,000 employees in 2019 and planned to recruit similar number this year has decided to freeze hiring for the rest of the year as the company fights Covid-19 pandemic.

In an internal memo, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that now is the time to significantly slow down the pace of hiring, "while maintaining momentum in a small number of strategic areas where users and businesses rely on Google for ongoing support, and where our growth is critical to their success".

Google to reveal user location data to help governments tackle coronavirus

Google will publish location data from its users around the world from Friday to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, the tech giant said.
The reports on users' movements in 131 countries will be made available on a special website and will "chart movement trends over time by geography," according to a post on one of the company's blogs.
Trends will be display "a percentage point increase or decrease in visits" to locations like parks, shops, homes and places of work, not "the absolute number of visits," said the post, signed by Jen Fitzpatrick, who leads Google Maps, and the company's chief health officer Karen DeSalvo.
"We hope these reports will help support decisions about how to manage the Covid-19 pandemic," they said.
"This information could help officials understand changes in essential trips that can shape recommendations on business hours or inform delivery service offerings." Like the detection of traffic jams or the measurement of traffic on Google Maps, the new reports will use "aggregated, anonymised" data from users who have activated their location history.
No "personally identifiable information," such as a person's location, contacts or movements, will be made available, the post said.
The reports will also employ a statistical technique that adds "artificial noise" to raw data, making it harder for users to be identified.
From China to Singapore to Israel, governments have ordered electronic monitoring of their citizens' movements in an effort to limit the spread of the virus, which has infected more than a million people and killed over 50,000 worldwide.

In Europe and the United States, technology firms have begun sharing "anonymised" smartphone data to better track the outbreak.

Google users in UK to lose EU data protection due to Brexit: Report

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Google is wanting to move its British clients' records out of the control of European Union security controllers, setting them under U.S. locale rather, sources said.
The move, provoked by Britain's exit from the EU, will leave the touchy individual data of several millions with less assurance and inside simpler reach of British law authorization. The change was portrayed to Reuters by three individuals acquainted with its arrangements. Google plans to require its British clients to recognize new terms of administration including the new ward.
Ireland, where Google and different U.S. tech organizations have their European home office, is remaining in the EU, which has one of the world's most forceful information security runs, the General Data Protection Regulation. Google has chosen to move its British clients out of Irish ward since it is misty whether Britain will adhere to GDPR or embrace different standards that could influence the treatment of client information, the individuals said.
On the off chance that British Google clients have their information kept in Ireland, it would be increasingly hard for British specialists to recuperate it in criminal examinations. The ongoing Cloud Act in the United States, be that as it may, is relied upon to make it simpler for British specialists to get information from U.S. organizations. England and the United States are likewise on track to arrange a more extensive exchange understanding.

Past that, the United States has among the most fragile security assurances of any significant economy, with no expansive law in spite of long stretches of backing by buyer insurance gatherings. A Google representative declined to remark in front of an open declaration...READ MORE

Twitter to label altered photos, videos, remove if it may cause harm

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Twitter will start to mark and at times expel doctored or controlled photographs, sound and recordings that are intended to delude individuals.
The organization said on Tuesday that the new guidelines restrict sharing engineered or controlled material that is probably going to cause hurt. Material that is controlled however isn't really hurtful may get an admonition mark. Under the new rules, the hindered video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in which she seemed to slur her words could get the mark in the event that somebody tweets it out after the principles go live March 5. In the event that it was demonstrated that it likewise causes hurt, Twitter could likewise evacuate it.
However, choosing what may cause damage could be hard to characterize, and some material will probably fall into a hazy area. "This will be a test and we will make mistakes en route - we welcome the persistence," Twitter said in a blog entry.
"In any case, we're focused on doing this right." Twitter said it considers dangers to the wellbeing of an individual or a gathering genuine damage, alongside danger of mass viciousness or far reaching common distress. Be that as it may, damage could likewise mean dangers to individuals' security or capacity to openly communicate, Twitter said. This could incorporate stalking, voter concealment and terrorizing sobriquets and material that intends to quiet somebody. Google, Facebook, Twitter and other innovation administrations are feeling the squeeze to forestall obstruction in the 2020 U.S. races after they were controlled in four years prior by Russia-associated on-screen characters.

On Monday, Google's YouTube explained its arrangement around political control, repeating that it bans political race related deepfake recordings...READ MORE

Macron, Trump agree to extend talks on France's digital tax: Report

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The Indian Railway’s ticketing portal has filed a complaint against a fake website selling tourism packages in its name and even has a copycat digital assistant.The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has warned the website (www.irctctour.com) is duping people with fraudulent transactions.
"The tourism portal is the website of IRCTC where the various tour packages and services of IRCTC are displayed," says the fake website, which copies the design and features of the genuine portal.IRCTC sent an email to its registered users and even had put up a message on its portal about the fake website.
irctctour.com The tourism portal is the website of IRCTC where the various tour packages and services of IRCTC, says the fake website
IRCTC is the only entity authorised by the Indian Railways to provide online railway tickets, catering services to railways and packaged drinking water at railway stations and in trains. It is the world's second-busiest and highest of 1.5 million to 1.6 million tickets every day. Meanwhile, IRCTC Tourism offers tour facilities to over 1.05 million persons annually. The various tourism business segments of IRCTC include luxury train tours, Bharat darshan special tourist trains, rail tour packages, international and domestic air packages, land tour packages, hotel booking, etc. Its official portal is irctctourism.com.

Earlier, IRCTC warned its customers not to disclose any confidential information related to their account number, ATM card, PIN, TPIN, UPI details over phone or through e-mails. It notified users that attempts were being made to fraudulently withdraw money from their accounts. IRCTC also said that it never makes phone calls, sends e-mails/SMS asking customers to give their personal or security information for refunds, TDR or in any other case....Read More

YouTube's landmark privacy upheaval on kids video content begins

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Starting on Monday, YouTube will overhaul its systems to comply with a landmark privacy ruling, a move that could dent revenue for the Google video giant and thousands of its creators.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google settled with federal regulators in September for violating laws on collecting data from minors, and YouTube agreed to a series of changes. Videos designed as “made for kids” would be stripped of targeted ads, which fetch higher prices, and other valuable features, such as user comments and live chats.
The Federal Trade Commission, which fined Google over the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, has given broad directives about what it considers child-directed video, including clips with popular animations and kids play with toys. Individual video creators will face fines for violating COPPA going forward, which has sparked panic.“YouTube now treats personal information from anyone watching children’s content on the platform as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user,” the company wrote in a Monday blog post.
These changes have been expected for months, but their impact is still unknown. Google has warned that some video creators could lose a bulk of their ad sales. The company hasn’t shared its sales or how much of its massive catalog comes from videos “made for kids.”“We’re committed to helping creators navigate this new landscape and to supporting our ecosystem of family content,” YouTube said.
“We’ll share more in the coming months.”

In addition to the restrictions on videos, YouTube will begin placing a text below “made for kids” videos directing viewers to YouTube Kids, an app that’s designed for children. The app has a much smaller audience than the main YouTube service....Read More

Artificial intelligence can spot breast cancer better than doctors: Google

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Man-made brainpower can spot bosom malignant growth more precisely than specialists, as indicated by an investigation by Google Health.
The innovation's perusing of mammograms diminished both bogus positives, where solid patients are erroneously determined to have the ailment, and bogus negatives, where the disease is missed, the Alphabet unit said in a blog entry. The framework diminished bogus positives by 5.7 percent in the US, as per the information from in excess of 28,000 mammograms performed there and in the UK.
Man-made consciousness is especially great at understanding outputs, regularly outflanking specialists. A year ago, Google distributed research that indicated how the innovation could be utilized to advise whether bosom disease had spread to encompassing lymph hubs, helping pathologists make increasingly exact conclusions.
Google is additionally preparing man-made consciousness to help decide if a patient is probably going to live beyond words, a huge number of information focuses to help make forecasts about results. All things considered, the organization discovered it needs to step cautiously when utilizing understanding information.
In 2017, British controllers said Alphabet's man-made reasoning unit, DeepMind, disregarded UK information security law when it tried an application that investigated open medicinal records without telling patients.

The underlying discoveries for the bosom disease study were distributed in the diary Nature. The exploration was done in organization with DeepMind just as Cancer Research UK Imperial Center, Northwestern University and Royal Surrey County Hospital.....Read More

Sundar Pichai named CEO at Google parent Alphabet after founders step down

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Google fellow benefactors Larry Page and Sergey Brin have reported that they are venturing down from the position of authority of the parent organization Alphabet.
Google CEO Indian-American Sundar Pichai (47), will expect the job of Alphabet CEO, making him one of the most dominant corporate pioneers of the world. Considered as a noteworthy shakeup in the Silicon Valley organization, a declaration in such manner was made by Page and Brin in a letter to the organization representatives, which likewise incorporated an announcement from Pichai.
With Alphabet presently settled, and Google and 'Other Bets' working adequately as free organizations, it's the regular time to disentangle our administration structure, composed the two Google prime supporters. "We've never been ones to clutch the board jobs when we believe there's a superior method to run the organization," they said.
"Also, Alphabet and Google never again need two CEOs and a President. Going ahead, Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet. He will be the official mindful and responsible for driving Google, and dealing with Alphabet's interest in our arrangement of Other Bets," said Page and Brin.
"We are profoundly dedicated to Google and Alphabet as long as possible, and will remain effectively included as Board individuals, investors and fellow benefactors. Moreover, we intend to keep chatting with Sundar normally, particularly on subjects we're enthusiastic about!" they composed.

In his announcement, Pichai clarified that the progress won't influence the Alphabet structure or the work they do everyday. "I will keep on being extremely centered around Google and the profound work we're doing to push the limits of registering and assemble a progressively supportive Google for everybody," he composed.....Read More

Google parent Alphabet probes executives over relationships at workplace

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Alphabet Inc.’s board is investigating how the company dealt with accusations of sexual harassment and misconduct against some of its executives.
"As has already been confirmed in public court filings, in early 2019, Alphabet’s Board of Directors formed a special litigation committee to consider claims made by shareholders in various lawsuits relating to past workplace conduct," Alphabet said in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
The investigation includes the behavior of Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, a long time senior executive who has been accused of having relationships with employees, CNBC reported earlier on Wednesday. The board of directors has hired a law firm to help with the investigation and contact alleged victims, CNBC also said.A 2018 New York Times report detailed three accounts of senior Google executives, including Drummond, having relationships with employees. Alphabet is the parent of Google. Two of those executives, Andy Rubin and Rich DeVaul, have since left the company, but Drummond remains.
In August, a former Google employee, Jennifer Blakely, who participated in the New York Times story, elaborated on accusations she made to the newspaper about Drummond, saying she was forced out of the company and that he refused to pay child support after their relationship ended.Drummond has acknowledged the relationship with Blakely. "Other than Jennifer, I never started a relationship with anyone else who was working at Google or Alphabet," he said in a statement in August. He did not return an email seeking comment.

The New York Times also reported last year that Rubin, the founder of Android, was given a $90 million severance package when he left Google in 2014. That prompted a walkout by thousands of Google employees, and has spurred efforts to reform how the company handles sexual harassment and misconduct complaints....READ MORE

This mid-sized newspaper tried to report its way out of decline and failed

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Peter Barbey’s great-grandfather John started the Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Co. 120 years ago. Known today as the VF Corp., it owns outdoorsy brands like Timberland and North Face. In its last fiscal year, VF reported nearly $14 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net income. Its market cap hovers around $35 billion. The Barbeys, who still own around 20 per cent of the company, are very rich.
Barbey, 62, went to the University of Arizona. He met his wife, Pam, there. They planted roots in Phoenix, where he invested in commercial real estate while also running the city’s most beloved independent bookstore, Houle Books. But in 2011, Peter and Pam moved to Reading, Pennsylvania, to take charge of another property that had been in the Barbey, DuPont and Flippin families for over a century: the Reading Eagle. With a Sunday circulation over 70,000, a team of sports writers as good as any in Pennsylvania, and a news staff that took seriously its watchdog role, the Eagle was one of the best medium-sized newspapers in the state, if not the country.
When I asked Barbey recently how he felt about leaving behind his life in Arizona to become president of the Eagle, he shrugged. “I’d been on the board since 2000,” he said. “I knew the company well. And I felt it was my duty to my family’s legacy, and to this community, to take this on.”
Eight years later, the Barbey, DuPont and Flippin families no longer own the Reading Eagle. In May, the paper was sold to MediaNews Group Inc., the newspaper company owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital LLC, which has a well-deserved reputation for asset stripping and layoffs. Barbey cared deeply about the Eagle; he sold it with great reluctance, helpless to reverse the paper’s economic decline.

 You sometimes hear journalists saying that if only their paper’s owner had beefed up the staff, had given reporters more time to do better stories, had made the paper indispensable to its community...Read More