Google Provided $39.5 Million to News Publishers amid COVID 19 Crisis

The search engine giant, Google, has so far distributed $39.5 million in funding to more than 5600 publishers from 115 countries that are facing financial hardship as a result of the economic and advertising slowdown in the COVID 19 pandemic. ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020

No Commission to be charged by Google on its E-Commerce Platform

Google has announced that it will let sellers – both the small retailers and the big corporates – sell products on its e-commerce marketplace product, Google Shopping, without charging any commission to them. This move is expected to counter Amazon ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020

Google to invest 10 billion USD in India

On July 13, 2020, PM Modi interacted with the CEO of Google, Mr Sundar Pichai. After the interaction, the CEO announced that Google is to invest 10 billion USD in India in the future. Highlights The investment will mainly focus ..

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020

“Delhi Corona” App launched by Delhi Government

On June 2, 2020, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched Delhi Corona App. The application is to provide all required information that are related to ventilators and hospital beds in the city. The Application mainly aims at providing real ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020

US joins G7 partnership on Artificial Intelligence

The Leaders of Group of the seven wealthiest countries in the world had set up Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence. Highlights The United States was not a part of the partnership initially. However, US is now joining the group to ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2020

Uttar Pradesh-First State to Geo Tag Community Kitchens

On April 19, 2020, Uttar Pradesh became the first state to geotag community kitchens. Around 7,368 community kitchens located in 75 districts were geo tagged. Highlights The State Government of Uttar Pradesh joined hands with Google to geo tag community ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

NITI Aayog: “Arogya Setu” – Fastest App to reach 50 million downloads

On April 15, 2020 NITI Aayog announced that Arogya Setu became the first mobile application in the world to reach more than 50 million downloads in short span of time. Highlights The application was developed by a committee set up ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

Access to “SWAYAM”, National Online Education Platform has tripled

On March 28, 2020, the Ministry of HRD (Human Resources Department) announced that the access to the National Online Education Platform called the SWAYAM has tripled since Lock Down. Highlights The Ministry of HRD has been trying to make sure ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020

Google adds new feature in ‘Discover’ to enable users to report misleading articles

Technological Major Google introduced a unique feed named ‘Discover’ which provides curated articles to Google Pixel and Google app users based on their interests. In its latest update to the app, this new feature has been introduced which enables the ..

Karan Bajwa appointed as Managing Director of Google Cloud in India

Karan Bajwa has been recently appointed as the Managing Director of Google Cloud in India. Prior to this appointment, he was serving as the Head of IBM’s India operations. He has also worked in Microsoft for nine years before that. ..