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Mr Brin is the world's ninth-richest person with a personal fortune of $86.5bn (£63.2bn). He joins the rush of super-rich families opening up family offices in the Asian financial hub including British entrepreneur Sir James Dyson.

Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday.

Google said on Friday it will disable its search function in Australia if the government proceeds with a media code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay local media companies for sharing their content.

The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country.

Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned that the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.”

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage. DownDetector indicates that the outage, which appears to be affecting Google’s business and personal services

India loves cricket and this has been proven yet again as the Indian Premier League (IPL) beat even the coronavirus for the top trending query overall in the year, according to Google India’s ‘Year In Search 2020’ announced on Wednesday.

October 18 (CNet) - It happens all the time -- you get a song stuck in your head, try to hum it to friends and no one has a clue what you're talking about. You continue thinking about it until you finally hear a snatch of it again -- from a TV show, the radio or in a store. Now, ...

October 17 (Forbes) - Zoom has had a tough few months as competitors such as Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have tried to steal its crown in the video conferencing space. But now, Zoom is fighting back with a bunch of game-changing features—one of which is rare in large scale video conferencing. The first and possibly the biggest new feature ...

October 12 (Quartz India) - India’s startups are digging a bigger hole for Google in India. On Oct. 10, founders of 15 Indian startups held a virtual meeting with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to discuss Google’s anti-competitive policies in the country, Mint newspaper reported. The meeting was triggered because of Google’s recent move to make it mandatory for Indian ...