The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has found Google guilty of anti-competitive behavior regarding Android’s dominant position in the country’s mobile operating system market. The watchdog began the investigation in April 2019, and found the Big G guilty of using its position to gain an unfair advantage in areas like search, music (YouTube), browser (Chrome), and app library (Play Store). According to a report bythe Times of India, CCI questioned phone makers, including Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo....

If you’re one of the few people who frequently purchased movies through Google Play Movies and TV, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that Google appears to be killing off the Play Movies & TV app on a bunch of smart TV devices, including Roku, Samsung, LG, and Vizio Smart TVs. Google appears to be slowly trying to retire the app, much like Google Play Music, perhaps because its name is terrible....

Google’s following Apple again by committing tointroduce privacy labelsfor Android apps in the Play Store next year. Google will show these labels for the app on the Play Store under the new Saftey section. It’ll show you what kind of data the app collects — approximate or exact location, personal information, photos, and storage — and how it plans to use the data. The iPhone maker gavea glimpse of these labelslast year at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), and introduced them to the App Store later in December....

Over the weekend, Google caused a stir by purging Google+ of a large number of accounts it deemed did not use real names. As ZDnetreported, users were being stripped not only of their Google+ accounts, but their entire Google accounts – Gmail, Docs, Blogger and everything else. While some users like to use fake names, as they do on the likes of Twitter, Google is seemingly enforcing its ‘real names only’ policy with gusto....

In the pre-digital world, advertising was largely carried by print media, radio, and television. Today, digital advertising hassurpassedthose channels, pervading our desktops and laptops, smartphones, tablets, and a variety of other internet-connected devices. And perhaps the biggest player in the online advertising space is Google. Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), says Google now dominates the country’s online advertising so thoroughly it must bereined in. The ACCC maintains that over the past ten years, Google’s advertising technology has developed to the point of being anti-competitive....