Google announced on its official India blog on Tuesday that itsYouTube BoxOfficechannel wouldstart showing two Bollywood movies per month, starting with the moviesShaitanandPyaar Ka Punchnamafor September. The ad-supported movie channel waslaunched in June this year, with the company showing one big-ticket Bollywood movie per month for free. In the past three months, it has racked up over 11.5 million views and become the 20th most subscribed channel in India. Besides the two latest movies, it also offers free streaming of over 1,500 Indian titles, with over 400 of them in regional languages....

We haven’t heard much aboutGoogle Music, the company’s cloud-based music locker service, since itlaunchedback in May at the I/O developer conference. Getting in to try it was tough – you had to be US-only to apply to join for a start, and the timing of when your account was approved was entirely up to Google, as it looked to control the number of people using the fledgling service. Now Google Music is starting to open up a little....

Google still abuses its search monopoly in the EU — regulators wake up! Ecosia’s CEO on the need for European regulators to protect consumer rights. Next to no Android phones have the choice-screen built in, because of COVID Even if the auction results were more balanced, real choice is not getting through to consumers, since Google decided that the so-called choice-screen would only be built into new devices. As with almost every industry, the coronavirus has completely altered the economic landscape in smartphone manufacturing, with sales down as much as50%during the height of the pandemic and supply chains disrupted or shut....

The numbers are in! TodaycomScore, an X, released its latest analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. While Facebookmay have surpassedGoogle as the most visited site in 2010,Google Sitesstill led in search for the month of December, grabbing up 66.6% of the search market share in the U.S.. Up just .4% from the previous month, Google led the pack, followed byYahoo!with 16% andMicrosoftsites (namelyBing) with 12%. The little guys, AskNetwork accounted for 3....

After nearly being shut down inSwitzerland, sued inOregon, and paying settlements amounting to €100,000 inFranceand €150,000 inBelgium, the controversial Google Street View is coming to Israel. Following three months of negotiations, the Israeli Justice Ministry has given Google the go-ahead, but like its European counterparts, the green light is dependent on certain conditions. Surprisingly, some of these conditions are not as stringent as they have been in Europe. According to Israeli newspaperHaaretz, the deal states that Google has to offer an efficient and reliable way for residents to blur out personal information, including license plates and homes, before they are published online....