Susan Wojcicki died at the age of 56
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away due to lung cancer aged 56 in Santa Clara, California. Wojcicki, who was Google’s Co-founder and CEO of YouTube, founded YouTube in 1998 at the age of 26. She later served as the CEO of YouTube until Google acquired it in 2006. Wojcicki had also served as a board member of Salesforce.com.
Susan Wojcicki was the former CEO and visionary of YouTube
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted, “The world is built by people.” “What Susan Wojcicki built in an incredibly complex environment isvery special and head and shoulders above what others created,” he added. Meanwhile, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wojcicki was one of the first to take maternity leave and she was one of the first to advocate for parental leave.
The decision was made that now was the best time to leave from the device
Google has unveiled its fourth-generation Google TV Streamer at its developers’ event on Wednesday. The device, which is scheduled to launch on September 24, will have a’remote finder’ button on the back, which users can use to access live TV shows, music or apps they want to stream. The company also launched a new version of the Chromecast on the same day.
Microsoft could not pay a price for Apple to use Bing: that is, all of the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google’s VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, said in an interview that it’s vital for Google to continue to ” have an infrastructure that [it] understand[s] search product”, as per The New York Times. He added that if Google made search less attractive, the revenues from it would be fine. Google recently expanded the rule to Chrome browser on Android devices.
Microsoft could not pay apple a price for Bing, the most spiciest parts of the antitrust ruling
A US judge has ruled that Google has “unlawfully” maintained its dominance in search by using anti-competitive deals to keep competitors from gaining traction. He added Apple would have to spend $20 billion in order “to reproduce [Google’s technical] infrastructure dedicated to search”. He further said, “Imagine if Google’s search quality substantially degraded, whether purposely or through neglect.”
The US judge ruled that the search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
Apple received $20 billion in payments from Google in 2022 for the default position on iPhone browsers, an expert witness for Google said during the first two Sessions in the Google-Apple antitrust case. Earlier, the judge had ruled that Google has monopoly power in general search and general search text ads. A weeklong hearing on remedies is expected this year.
We were hoping that this was the Apple TV 4K rival we had been waiting for
Google Home will soon have a voice-over-eye view, new camera intelligence features and a smart Assistant for smart speakers and displays that can learn and understand the home. The Assistant will be able to maintain the context of your conversation and start to learn and understand your home, Google said. The feature will also have natural language input for creating routines.
In a US antitrust case, a judge rules that is a monopolist
A jury in the US found that Google’s deals with partners harm competition in the general search and text ads markets. The jury also found that Google’s deals with manufacturers of mobile devices, browsers and apps led to monopoly in the market for general search and text ads. It also found that Google has monopoly power in both the markets.
Data centers need to cool down because this climate tech startup wants to capture carbon
Data centres consume the equivalent of electricity per year as the entire country of Italy, according to Bloomberg. Google wrote in its sustainability report in 2023 that it was no longer “maintaining operational carbon neutrality”. But, starting in 2023, Google wrote in its sustainability report that it was no longer “maintaining operational carbon neutrality”.
After security backlash, Microsoft will switch off recall
Google’s Project Zero researcher James Forshaw has found a way to access Microsoft’s Recall feature without “administrator privileges”. This comes after Microsoft announced changes to its Copilot+ feature to make it an opt-in feature. The new features require users to provide a username and password to unlock the feature, which was previously turned on by default.