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Google announced plans to buy fitness tech firm Fitbit for $2.1bn back in November 2019, but the deal has since been subject to regulatory scrutiny. Now, 14 months on, it has been completed. One of the talking points in that...

Google and Snap are in talks to invest in Indian social media company ShareChat, according to a report on TechCrunch. It claims that ShareChat’s Series E funding round will be more than $200m, with at least half of...

Don’t click on this link if you have urgent work tasks to complete. Well, we warned you. It’s the latest machine-learning experiment involving music within the Google empire, and it’s called Blob Opera....

YouTube Music may be the flagship music-streaming brand for Google now, but there is still music activity happening elsewhere in the company. Its smart speakers division, for example, which has just commissioned a series...

In February this year, Google's experimental division Area 120 launched something called Demand, in partnership with Pollstar. It was a live-music analytics tool promising "actionable, real-time analytics facilitating...

It's been a while since we've had some big-figure predictions for the smart speakers market, but here's research firm Canalys hoving into view with its latest forecasts. It reckons that 163m smart speakers will be shipped...

The US Department of Justice has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing it of “unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising...

Google announced some new features for its search engine yesterday, including one focused on music. “Starting today, you can hum, whistle or sing a melody to Google to solve your earworm,’ the company explained. That...

The US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust has spent the last 16 months investigating Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, and yesterday its Democrat majority staff published a report into their findings. You can read...

“Made for music, the new Nest Audio is here,” is how Google introduced its new smart speaker last night, emphasising the audio quality of the new device, which goes on sale in the coming days. It's 75% louder with...

Sonos is really sticking it to Google this year. It sued the company alleging patent infringement in January, then its CEO testified before a US antitrust subcommittee about what he saw as ‘market distortion’ activities...

As if TikTok didn't have enough things to worry about, here's a new digital thing called 'LipSync by YouTube'. Or perhaps not a worry just yet: it's just an experiment using Google's artificial intelligence technology. "This...