Googles nexus

Technology giants Facebook Inc., Amazon .com Inc. and Google and credit-card providers Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are among those vying for unprecedented access to India’s burgeoning digital retail payments market. The companies are part of four consortia preparing to apply for licenses to operate retail payments and settlement systems in the country, people familiar with the matter said. More companies could band together before a March 31 application deadline. In a market where cash is still king, digital payments are quickly gaining ground as India’s 1.3 billion people are starting to embrace online shopping and services such as online gaming and streaming. With Credit Suisse Group AG predicting $1 trillion in online payments in India in 2023, the companies chosen to enable such transactions stand to reap lucrative commissions. “India’s mobile digital payments is seeing huge growth in a post-pandemic world,” said Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief … [Read more...] about Amazon, Google, Facebook vie for piece of India’s digital payments market

Google seems to have completely given up all hopes on VR and VR headsets . After dropping support for its Daydream platform in the latest Android 11 operating system, Google has now discontinued its most affordable VR headset-- Google Cardboard . The Cardboard VR headset will no longer be available after five years of its first release. “We are no longer selling Google Cardboard on the Google Store. We will continue to help the community build new experience through our Cardboard open source project,” a message on the Google Store page says. Google Cardboard is an easy-to-use VR device which is compatible with any Android phone with around 5-inch display. This device allowed people to play games and watch content in VR without spending a lot of money. With Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality taking over, it seems the days of just Virtual Reality are numbered. Thankfully, there are a lot of alternatives to the real Cardboard device that you can buy. … [Read more...] about Google kills its most affordable VR headset

SAN FRANCISCO: Google said on Thursday (Oct 25) it had fired 48 employees in the past two years - including 13 senior executives - as a result of sexual harassment allegations, citing "an increasingly hard line" on inappropriate conduct. The US tech giant issued the statement from chief executive Sundar Pichai in response to a New York Times report that one senior Google employee, Android creator Andy Rubin, received an exit package worth US$90 million as he faced allegations of misconduct, and that Google had covered up other claims of sexual harassment. Asked by AFP and other media for its reaction, Google released an email sent to employees from Pichai stating that 48 people had been terminated for sexual harassment in the past two years, including 13 who were senior managers and above and that none received "an exit package." "In recent years, we've made a number of changes, including taking an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of … [Read more...] about Google says fired 48 for sexual harassment over two years

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp on Wednesday said it has agreed to “an historic” three-year partnership with Google to provide journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google. It didn’t reveal payment terms but said publications joining the Google News Showcase include the Wall Street Journal , Barron’s , MarketWatch and the New York Post in the U.S.; The Times and The Sunday Times and The Sun in the UK; and, in Australia, a range of platforms including The Australian, the news.com.au site, Sky News, and multiple metropolitan and local titles. Compensation to publishers from Google and Facebook has become a major battleground in Australia and in some European countries. The Australian Parliament is debating legislation that would force digital platforms to negotiate with media companies on payment for using their news. The new law would require binding arbitration if the two sides failed to reach a deal. It would … [Read more...] about News Corp. Inks Global Deal With Google On Payments For News Sharing

New Delhi, Cyber security researchers have found a new malware that is tricking Google into treating hacked websites as trustworthy sources and presenting innocent users with apparently "perfect matches" to their search queries on the platform. The hackers are using the malware dubbed as "Gootloader to lure "well-meaning users" into installing the malware on their devices, putting them at ransomeware risk, according to the report by Naked Security, which is global cyber security firm Sophos's threat intelligence unit. The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade -- a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft. However, in recent years, almost as much effort has gone into improvement of its delivery method as has gone into the malware itself. This is how the modus operandi works. The hackers break into hundreds of web servers and implant artificially generated content containing phrases that search engines are likely … [Read more...] about Hackers lure users, install malware via Google Search