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The US Federal Trade Commission and seven US states reached a settlement with Alphabet Inc's Google and iHeartMedia Inc over allegations of deceptive ads promoting Google's Pixel 4 smartphone, the FTC said. the FTC said in a statement on Monday that the companies aired nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google's Pixel 4 phone in 2019 and 2020. The allegations were settled by the companies, who agreed to pay $9.4 million in penalties, the FTC said.Read…

Autonomous delivery vehicle maker Nuro is laying off about 20% of its workforce after admitting that rapid hiring in the past year was a mistake, the company's co-founders wrote in an email to employees. "Laying off team members is always the last resort, but unfortunately it was needed after other options were exhausted," the email said. The Silicon Valley-based startup, whose investors include Tiger Global Management, Alphabet Inc's Google and Softbank Group Corp, had raised $600 million last year at a valuation of $8.6…

Alphabet Inc's Google and Israel's Reichman University have set up a school to train high-tech professionals, offering courses in computer programming, sales and data analysis, among other subjects, the university said on Monday. Israel has a vibrant high-tech sector but a severe shortage of skilled tech workers has led to tens of thousands of unfilled positions. The School of High Tech will subsidise students from under-represented communities "including women, the ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, members of the Ethiopian…

Alphabet Inc's Google must face all but one antitrust allegation about its online advertising business brought in a lawsuit by attorneys general for Texas and 16 other states or territories, a federal judge ruled. Google won its motion to dismiss an allegation that a cooperation agreement it struck with Meta Platforms' Facebook in 2018 was an unlawful restraint of trade, with U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel saying the companies had valid business reasons for the deal. Read Also Google failed to convince Castel to…

Australia's competition watchdog said that Alphabet Inc's Google unit was ordered by the country's Federal Court to pay A$60 million ($42.7 million) in penalties for misleading users on the collection of their personal location data. The court found Google misled some customers about personal location data collected through their Android mobile devices between January 2017 and December 2018. Google misled users into believing the "location history" setting on their Android phones was the only way location data could be…

Alphabet Inc's Google was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world's largest search engine, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. FacebookTwitterLinkedin Alphabet Inc's Google was down for thousands of users…

Alphabet Inc's Google services appeared to be back up after facing a brief global disruption on late Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Reports of the outage dropped to less than 500 incidents in the United States, as per Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources. At the peak of outage, more than 30,000 user reports had indicated issues with Google in the United States alone, as of 0130 GMT. Nearly 5,900 users reported problems in Japan, the tracking website said,…

US payments firm PayPal has registered as an electronic systems operator in Indonesia and its customers can now access its services, the company said. PayPal was one of several websites that Indonesia blocked at the weekend because of their failure to comply with new licensing rules. Companies were given a July deadline to register under new rules that would allow authorities to compel platforms to disclose data of certain users and take down content deemed unlawful or that "disturbs public order" within four hours if…

Alphabet Inc's Google was among the last remaining tech platforms yet to comply with Indonesia's new licensing rules, hours from a deadline to sign up and avoid having its services blocked in the country. Registration is required under rules released in late 2020 that would give authorities broad powers to compel platforms to disclose data of certain users and take down content deemed unlawful or that "disturbs public order" within four hours if urgent, and 24 hours if not. With a young, tech-savvy population of 270…

Indonesia urged tech companies to register under new licencing rules or run the risk of having their platforms blocked, with data showing many big tech firms such as Google and Meta had yet to comply days out from the July 20 deadline. The requirement to register is part of a set of rules, first released in November 2020, that will allow authorities to order platforms to take down content deemed unlawful, or that "disturbs public order" within four hours if considered urgent, and 24 hours if not.Communications Minister…