 | Google must pay for content: NewspapersThe Society said publishers have been raising the issue of fair payment for content and of proper sharing of advertising revenue with Google. |
 | Google Maps rolls out dark mode on AndroidThe dark mode will be accessible in the app's settings menu, under 'theme'. |
 | Urgent need to counter China's growing tech dominance, says former Google CEOLast month, a group of tech and policy leaders including Schmidt warned that China was "surging to overtake the United States in critical areas." |
 | Australia passes landmark law requiring Google, Facebook to pay for newsThe law passed easily after a last-gasp deal that watered-down binding rules Facebook and Google had fiercely opposed in return for the tech giants agreeing to pay local media companies. |
 | Google Cloud achieves full 'Cloud Service Provider' empanelment; eyes public sector for growthThe company said the empanelment will enable the Indian public sector to deploy on Google Cloud including government agencies at the central and state level and PSUs. |
 | Finally, Google and Facebook will begin paying for ‘free’ newsWhile news organisations either fold up or retrench journalists to stay alive, these social media Goliaths continue to do well. |
 | Google fires artificial intelligence ethics researcher over dismissal of Black woman employeeMitchell's dismissal came a day after Google named one of its few Black executives, Marian Croak, as head of a new center of expertise on responsible AI within Google Research. |
 | Australia news media 'large and small' discuss Google dealsGoogle and Facebook, which take a combined 81% of online advertising in Australia, have condemned the code as unworkable. |
 | Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay for newsThe conservative government hopes to enact the so-called News Media Bargaining Code before the current session of Parliament ends on February 25. |
 | Google fined USD 1.3 million for 'misleading' French hotelsPreviously, Google used the official source Atout France as well as input from other hotel-industry websites in its algorithm to rank hotels from one to five stars. |
