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Phones
Google launches new Pixel 5 — price, 5G, camera, features, release date
Google launches its new flagship phone, Google Pixel 5. The tech giant has launched the new phone at a reduced price to help it compete against the likes of the iPhone 12 and Samsung's Galaxy S20 series. Although Google phones have much less...
Android
Google unveils Android 11 Go Edition for low-end smartphones
Google has unveiled the Android 11 Go edition on Thursday after it officially launched Android 11 on Tuesday this week. The Go variant is a light-weight stripped-down variant of Android targeted for low-powered devices with lower memory and processing capabilities. The new Android 11 Go edition has a...
World
Google and Facebook to pay Australian media companies for using content
Australia is in the process of forcing Google and Facebook, the digital giants, to pay local media companies for using their news content. The Federal Government has asked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - ACCC to develop a code of conduct for...
Security
Google bans employees from using Zoom on computers
Google has banned its employees from using Zoom, one of the popular video conferencing app, on laptops and computers over privacy and security concerns. The news came after NASA and SpaceX restricted their employees from using Zoom as the U.S. law enforcement warned...
Apps
YouTube ‘Shorts’ to rival TikTok
YouTube is working on a feature, called 'Shorts', that will allow users to make short videos like TikTok - a video-sharing app by China-based ByteDance. The 'Shorts' are expected to be a part of the YouTube mobile apps that will be available by...
Amazon
How bad COVID-19 has hit the tech industry
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 so far has a devastating impact on the U.S. and many other state's economies. As all the affected countries are trying to stem the spread of the virus, life seems to be slowly grinding to a halt. This grind...
Google
Google launches website for COVID-19 information and resources
Google's website for "COVID-19 Information and Resources" is finally out, which would be a complete novel coronavirus information center. The site intends to facilitate the U.S. public testing for the pandemic influenza and would help people answering the requested queries for coronavirus symptoms...
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Best Google Ads Bidding Strategies for Marketers 2020
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Nowadays, there exist billions of websites on the internet. The competition in organic search has increased, and 75% of users never visit the second page of Google! So, paid ads are a smart way for marketers to increase leads ratio through increased traffic. Marketers...
Business
Google asks staff in North America to work from home
Google asks all of its North-American employees to work from home (WFH), due to COVID-19 - coronavirus - outbreak, if their workload and situation allow it. The company extended the permission, through a memo, until April 10. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have...
Android
Google removed 600 Android apps from Google Play for Disruptive Ads and Disallowed Interstitial policy
Google has removed around 600 Android apps from the Google Play app store for violating disruptive ads policy and disallowed interstitial policy. The most popular operating system company has banned a few developers from their Google AdMob monetization platform along the way for doing mobile ad...
Latest News
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Remember when Google killed off Google+? Well, 2024 just said 'hold on. In an ever-evolving technological landscape, change is the only constant. But 2024 marked an unprecedented...