they love google ideas and google very much associated with the democrat royalty as it were. why, why was it no fun to work? well, again, it comes down to what your views and the demographic that you're in and how, what you think i was, you know, in a role that's called a research scientist role. and i was the 1st black woman to be a research scientist at google. and i saw why raid, i had so many issues right off the bat i was under levels are not people with much less experience. to me way more level than me. there was a lot of just kind of disrespect. there was a lot of harassment and all sorts of things. so it was very, very difficult for me to just even concentrate on my job. and actually when i'm talking about being fired, i'm pretty certain that it wasn't just that paper that got me fired, right. i was, there were so many things that they didn't like that i was doing. i was speaking up about workplace issues, discrimination issues. and they and each time i spoke up, they weren't happy that i spoke up about it. so i didn't buy the idea that there was something philosophi

s. tech firm google. now, a google uses content from these news agencies and from these various newspapers and publications such as a new stories, articles and that kind of thing. it publishes them of course, on its website on this platform and it does pay them for it. however, what editors and frauds are saying is that there is no transparency over how those payments are calculated. google effectively pays what it wants to pay, rather than having come come to an agreement with editors over system for these payments. now under you rules, google was supposed to started talks and negotiations with these licenses and frauds over the payments to try and put in place an agreement on how they should be paid on how the payment should be calculated. however, what france's anti trust watched ok, and we'll leave that report from natasha, but just a shade early because we're going to take you to philadelphia the u. s. president joe biden there has just taken to the podium. he's had a quick journey marine one air for

so google, i will always in a sure, so google play amy amount of money to make sure that google search engine is the default search engine on every, on road to device. that's the 1st step, 2nd step in order to some maybe it's position within the search engine. and so within google search engine, google, make sure that the default search is actually google search. so 1st we're going to have google chrome, which is google search engine winning, that there will be a default search facility, which is of course, google search. now at the end of it, because the next step would be the winning search results that come out on, on, on google search. the very 1st search results should belong to google. so if you searching for travel ticket or flying it with a google travel, if you're looking to do some shopping, google shopping. if you're looking for any, any or videos, it would be a huge the belong to go. so that gives google or a monopoly, not necessarily over the search engine, but over the entire communication system that is being used. ah, pretty much all over the world in a think this is we

amazon, 30% for google. we're also hearing concerns about use of consumers' personal information. that would be privacy. of course, privacy legislation has somehow if i lewded us, mostly -- eluded us, but that's the other piece of this puzzle in addition to the work that needs to be done on antitrust. americans are counting on us to protect innovation and competition, to go over the stats. 94 million people in the u.s. own at least one connected speaker which they can use the play music, ask about the weather, tell their kids to come down for dinner. in the years to come, connected devices in our home will become even more sophisticated. these devices work with each other through technology interfaces, often digital voice assistants like alexa. i want to highlight a few key concerns that we will explore at the hearing today. first, many consumers use their connected speakers to operate other connected devices like asking the digital assistant to lower the thermostat. they should get the very best available w

people who work at google know that we value you and you do belong at google. we started a conversation together earlier this year when we announced a broad set of racial equity commitments to take a fresh look at all, assistance from hiring and leveling to promotion and retention to address the need for leadership accountability committed to continue to make diversity equity inclusion but of everything we do from how we build our products, i presume that some of the hardware over represented by people of color, who knows how to, how we build our workforce. you know, you know, the statements coming from google completely against what you're saying. yes. so maybe this was what he did, the quote non apology and you know, he had to apologize because the other road they were going down on, which was deborah lane down, you know, to saying that my work was set par saying that i, i told people to stop working on diversity and all of the other things they were saying it was creating more and more backlash each time they went down that road. so i'm sure he realized at s

i remember when google came out, i was a writer, and a very early user of google. i loved google. it was better than anything else. and that was a long time ago. as google has become more powerful, as facebook has become more powerful, as amazon has become all powerful, they use their power to crush the upstarts, the innovators, to force all of us in society to walk down certain technological pathways and not to go down better pathways. so there are better futures for us as a people that we can't add to, because monopolists stand in our way, because google and facebook and amazon stand in our way. and i will point something out for jennifer, you were talking about the browser wars. let's remember what happened when it came to the browser wars, which was the last , great, tech antitrust lawsuit, which was against microsoft because of its manipulation of the browser market in the late 1990's. and it was that lawsuit that created the opportunity for google and facebook and amazon to get where they are today. antitrust equals innovation. that is a fact. is provable. we have seen it ti

that's why every android avoids with google services we require they have google play protect our service which scans 100 billion app installs every day. just from 2019 we removed one.9 billion instances of malware and other security vulnerabilities just to give you a sense of the scale. >> but to be clear, i am referring to the sdk that should be classified as malware but is not currently. do you agree that the data broker market is exploitive and abusive and most users have no idea how much information flows to the data broker? >> we take it very seriously is our responsibility those that come to google play to keep it safe and we have policies in place if developers violate those policies we review every app whether a new submission or an update before it is published that is a combination of automated tools. >> private on - - please provide to this committee within 30 days if asked mode sdk malware or any other technology remains on apps sold on the google store? >> yes i'm happy to look into that and follow up with more details. >> i like you to commit to provide that information not

i remember when google came out in the late 1990s. i was a very early adopter as a writer as a journalist, at very early user of google. i loved google. it was so much better than anything else but that was a long time ago. as google has become more powerful, and facebook has become more powerful and amazon has become all-powerful in each of their certain areas, they use their power to crush the upstart, to crush the innovators, to force all of us in society to walk and certain technological pathways and not to go down better pathways. so there's all these better futures out there for us as a people that we can't get to because monopolists stand in our way, because google and facebook and amazon stand in our way. one other area where i will just point to jennifer is it support a member you are talking about the browser wars, let's remember what happened when he came to browser wars which was the last great tech antitrust lawsuit, which was against microsoft because of its manipulation of the browser market, back in the late 1990s. it

early user of google, i looked at google. so much better than anything else and that was a long time ago. as google has become more powerful facebook has become more powerful and amazon has become all powerful each of their certain areas, they use their power to crush the upstart and innovators. to force all of us in society to walk on certain technological pathways and not go down better paths so there is all this better future up there for us as people that we can't get to because monopolists stand in our way because google and facebook and amazon stand in our way. one other area i'll say is important to remember you're talking about the browser award, let's remember happened with the browser award, the last great tech antitrust lawsuit, which was against microsoft because of its manipulation of the browser market back in the late 1990s, it was that case, that lawsuit that created the opportunity for google and facebook and amazon to get where they are today. antitrust equals innovation. that is just a fact, it's provable,

one is about google's monopolistic power over determining pricing splits and what goes into their google play store. meanwhile, facebook's was more so about a personal networking service, so google actually does determine and control the pricing and what goes into it store. facebook, on the other hand, does not determine who posts, what pictures videos, messages, and likes on their platform. so in that respect, those 2 are very different and in a way google does have more power directly over its marketplace over facebook. so this, in that respect, this case might end up being a little trickier. what happened in facebook was that the fcc failed to establish that they had control complete monopolistic power. and they also failed to show exactly what harm facebook actually constituted. the complaint never identified who facebook competitors war and how they were harmed and monetarily how much they were harmed, and whether a less or product was actually being developed because of facebook, monopolistic power. so in that respect, those are 2 very different cases. one is over plot content that

google delivers a vast range of products and services, from google maps and docs to gmail. pichai's total pay ranges hugely from $7 million last year to $281 million in 2019. sundar pichai has given interviews before, but rarely as much time as this. there are no agreed questions and nothing is off limits. interview, take four. a mark. b mark. sundar, let's start by talking a bit about this moment in history. in my work for the bbc over the last few years, i've been arguing that we've been living through a kind of epoch shift. technology is central to that. when you think about your career, when you think about the pandemic we've just been through, the transformations to come, where do you think you would put us? where do you think we are as a species in the long story that is humanity? oh, it's a big question... we'll start big, and we'll get narrower as we go along. look, i've always felt there is this constant progress which comes with technology, and it almost happens whether or not humans actually want that level of progress. i go through these thought experiments and

google delivers a vast range of products and services, from google maps and docs to gmail. pichai's total pay ranges hugely from $7 million last year to $281 million in 2019. sundar pichai has given interviews before, but rarely as much time as this. there are no agreed questions and nothing is off limits. sundar interview, take four. a mark. b mark. sundar, let's start by talking a bit about this moment in history. in my work for the bbc over the last few years, i've been arguing that we're living through a kind of epoch shift. technology is central to that. when you think about your career, when you think about the pandemic we've just been through, the transformations to come, where do you think you would put us? where do you think we are as a species in the long story that is humanity? wow, it's a big question... we'll start big, and we'll get narrower as we go along. look, i've always felt there is this constant progress which comes with technology, and it almost happens whether or not humans actually want that level of progress. i go through these thought experiments a

child is now google' client. what they do is they log these kids into chrome books in the chrome browser then sinks all the activity that is taking place either either on the chrome book or on the child's home computer that they may hav logged into their schools account with. according to the details of thi new mexico case, they are alleging google tracks everything from your child's we search history to what they watch on youtube to their voice recording and location among many other details. federal law actually requires parental consent for the tracking and storage of this data, parents are supposed to b able to opt out of this, but in initial judge in new mexico the district court level said hey, schools can consent on behalf o the parents so this is a very troubling development for parents because their child is now a client of google, a profile is being created, googl says they don't use this for ra ad revenue, but google has made those claims before and it is not panned out. >> i wouldn't say it clients, i

they've kind of warped it to make google sound like that. they are taking advantage of developers when really google has just created a platform for everybody. and it's really an attack on openness because i think that if you google like this, it is unfair because you're not attacking apple in the same way. apple and google are very different. apple is a completely closed source system. they are free to de list apps. you are not allowed, they charge their own commission and you really can't hack an apple app store. meanwhile, the google play store, if you can't find an app that you want to download, you can actually go directly to the developers website. it's basically very nimble . it's open source and allows for please customization and utilization. so it's an attack on openness to go after google and not apple in this instance. well, in that case, you wonder how much apple might be behind this. there's a lots of different agenda, christie. i think that play here all under this idea that they're trying to go anti trust and trying to break

google and amazon manipulate you. they take you to do certain things and they take you away from others. they try to get you to buy certain things and they try to you to -- they try to get you to listen the curtains of recordings and read certain books. we don't want to be manipulated. as human beings, we want to be able to be fully in charge of all aspects of our lives, and simple traditional rules that we have applied to every single network monopoly and our history, we applied this to google and facebook and amazon, and we can make them absolutely safe for all of us while continuing to enjoy all the benefits of these technologies. jennifer: if i may jump in here, often times when we are debating tech companies, we really have this question of what the market is, and a lot of the debates around antitrust and tech companies really boil down to this, because people like to say things like google is a monopoly in research, but even as the example just showed, a lot of searches now star on amazon and we also have compet

schools in this way with chrome books, google tech and services so schools are google clients which means your child is google's client so they log kids into chrome books and what happens is the chrome browser six all the activity taking place either on the chrome book or a child's home computer they may have locked into their school account with.d according to the details of this case, they are alleging google tracks everything from your child's web search history to what they watch ond youtube, voice recording and location among other details. federal law requires parental consent for tracking and storage of the data parents are supposed to be able to opt out but an initial judge at the district court level saidxi schools can consent on behalf of the parents so it's a troubling development parents because their child is a client of google, a profile is created and google says they don't use it for ad revenue but google has made the claims before and they have not panned out. tucker:an i wouldn't say client, i would say a victim of google, they are exploited by the most powerful co

on the situation or did a google create? is that because? because google takes a character every, every time when you use comparison website and you click say on a travel agency to book a flight, google will take a cup of that of, of defeated you bay in one's google remained the only comparison website in town. google will be able to appraise those businesses, those travel agents, those restaurants, those will tell and save them. you know, if you want to appear in our comparison website, you have to pay us a larger and a larger and larger and the larger are cut off. the fee that you receive mom in ones who will start pressing them, they know going to stop there. they're going to start repressing small businesses as well. ok, so d, e u r. a consideration here is not just about a competition in something that doesn't really affect or you know, people, one or perhaps as convenient as you've explain them. it is a buys and time process that goes on. and even though with 30 years into the internet existing, it still feels like law

what exactly is google doing? yes, so essentially what the french authority is saying is that google has kind of these internal ad practices and software that they use without rhythms. and our rhythms really are gearing business towards their own properties and away from competitors . so for instance, they say this, there's something called the d f p advertising server that google use it. they say it allows publishers of sites and applications to sell their own advertising space . but the problem is, is that the way google hasn't set up is that they actually refer more business to their own advertising space as opposed to those competitors, even though those competitors are utilizing google services. so essentially, the way it's set up is that google is favoring itself, which should not come as a surprise to anyone because google and facebook and amazon are constantly brand in trouble for the fact that this is what they do in europe in the united states across asia, every place where they exist, they have been acc

google makes that content accessible through search and google news. and the question is, who showed appropriate that value was much of the publishers be paid, should google be paid and how should we grow the pie and divide the pie in that chain? find should we grow the pie and divide the pie in that chain?— the pie in that chain? and when it comes to google _ the pie in that chain? and when it comes to google threatening - the pie in that chain? and when it comes to google threatening to i the pie in that chain? and when it i comes to google threatening to pull its services. it's not the first on the first time they'd done this. where do you think this will go? interesting lee debate whether google is a substance or a complement for publishers. in other words they could drive people towards publishers contents are so they read more or he could substitute away from publishers so they read _ substitute away from publishers so they read less and earn less. in spain _ they read less and earn less. in spain and — they read less and earn less. in spain

also coming up a life without google thinkable for lots of us but australia has plans to make google pay for news content to use it as lead to the internet giant are threatening to withdraw its search engine from the country strive you. rules for things you can do in a strike that's done. it's done by government. and that's how things work here in australia and people who want to work with that. you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats. welcome to the day we begin with sobering news here in germany where the number of deaths from corona virus from the corona virus pandemic is now past 50000 the head of the country's public health agency has described the figure as distressing and he's urging the government to maintain the tough national lockdown until there's a significant drop in deaths the new infections one of the country's biggest problems is the situation in its nursing homes. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes but they remain a big 19 hotspot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country he even as the overall infection right

over the weekend as russians voted, google also blocked videos. google owns youtube. google blocked youtube videos that navalny's allies posted on youtube to, again, help coordinate this smart voting strategy. they blocked those videos at the request, at the demand of putin's government. well, now bloomberg news reports that employees of google are increasingly upset about the company's repeated and consequential capitulation of putin's threats. quote, staff members complained over the weekend about google's decision and on a messaging board within the breeding ground of the company. images circulating inside google which were viewed by bloomberg news, spoofed its corporate crede about prioritizing users. one picture depicts a man reading a magazine below the slogan, putin the user first. get it? putting the user first, putin, the user first. since its formation, google has used the motto to make information universally accessible and useful. one meme image being circulated, again, inside google among its own employees displayed a map of the world where the russian vo

my beloved google has delete our video. these videos which putin calls extremists only contained information about your candidates in your constituency. in order to put competitive pressure on the ruling party was declared criminal. and big tech agreed with this. this means it recognized the right of an authoritarian thief to subjugate the internet, turning it into an instrument for seizure of power. joining me now is mark bergin who helped write the story about google employees and their own disquiet over this matter. mr. bergin, i appreciate you making time to be here tonight. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> so you cover these things more closely than i do. let me just ask if i misconstrued any of that or missed anything important there. >> no, that sounds spot-on. and the meme gen, it sounds kind of trivial. it is an internal messaging board where there are a lot of trivial things posted. but it's also been the place where if you'll recall a few years ago google employees were the ones who protested their governme

so google is out. let's call the apple rep and they basically shrugged it off and made no indication that this was serious despite their e-mail being very serious. amazon as usual basically saying you know i never saw any problems and there are no issues. so we had still even on the eighth in and the ninth we had no real indication that this was deadly serious. mark: where is this matter now? you have sued amazon as i understand it. what is the status? >> we are trying to get our services back up and running so at least we can access our development and testing environments. this is an indication to me that seems really strange, if they believe that the social media itself was a problem why did they shut off everything else to so that development environment. they shut off our ability to work in their ability to access our own code and work on that so what they did -- mark: wait, wait this is important. you are saying you're wrong for private terry code, other information, contact and date information

left unsaid was how it could protect google ad competitors and the amount of information google collects from consumers, browsing data, app usage data, financial transaction data, et cetera. tell me how is it consumers are anymore more protected if google collects this data and your competitors can't? can you help me understand that? >> senator, thank you for the question. yes, i can try. with the announcement that we made you rightfully pointed out we'd stop tracking cookies interest third parties. we did not unilaterally withdraw our support for that. but rather wanted to engage in a thoughtful conversation with advertisers, with publishersthality rely on an ad supported ecosystem to function on their websites or reach consumers. and we want to engage with residents and regulators and other stakeholders to explore more privacy protected technologies. >> sir, i'm not sure you're grasping my question. you're at least not answering it. i appreciate that you're wanting to have a thoughtful conversation. i appreciate that this is in your business interest and it may well have been. that's t

how is google faring? emily: the cloud is one place where our team was expecting to see better numbers. i did ask her about this, why did they come in light? she said it was slightly off estimates but they feel good about momentum, they are pleased with ongoing progress and progress -- product innovation and the strength across verticals. we know google remains the third-place player behind amazon web services and microsoft azure. it is a growing business so that is a piece of the pie that google can command, and that is something she remains optimistic about. sonali: thank you as always, emily chang. stay tuned to catch bloomberg technology live at 5:00. coming up, emerging trends in digital advertising. we will do that with the founder and ceo of marketing and influencer agency black girl digital. she will explain how it is done. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: tech companies report earnings up this week, a theme we have been focusing on our changes in advertising trends. you have been looking at how mu

google maps, google pay. a lot of our journey to bring google play to more people is playing out in this region is -- in asia as well. i'm excited about cloud. the companies there are transforming -- very exciting for us. a super dynamic region that i feel like we are learning at google being in the region. so, i think it will transform. the first 10 years i would've said we brought it to apac. over the years we are starting to build things there and some of our future global products will be apac first. emily: you cannot talk about it without talking about china and you're facing stiff competition from chinese tech giants there. what should u.s. policymakers know about competing with china? sundar: there's a lot of conversations about u.s. and china. a combination of fear. ai and quantum computing where we are investing a lot. chinese companies are neck and neck. what i think about, i'm encouraged by the news coming out of -- about the u.s.-china agreement on climate. to me, while we talk about all the areas

google said that. what that means for them is that in the last few weeks since it was last announced —— first downs, we have seen a campaign from google whenever you search in australia you get a warning informing them of the legislation and looking for them to rally on their behalf stop they have lost a campaign today on twitter, putting out a video explaining why they may have to walk and trying to generate interest and passion amongst australian citizens to fight on their behalf. we have also seen google's own property youtube launch a similar campaign. what google's opposition here seems to be that it seems to be that such legislation would make it mandatory for them to pay as well as increasing the bargaining power of the smaller news outlets. around the world we have seen, for instance, just in the last 12 hours them sign a deal in france to publishers such as le monde newspaper and a number of different newspapers and the like. the difference here seems to be they are organised or basically

also coming up a life without google thinkable for lots of us but australia has plans to make google pay for news content he uses has led to the internet giant are threatening to withdraw its search engine from the country stright. rules for things you can do in a strike that's done. it's done by government. and that's how things work here in australia and people who want to work with that. you're very welcome but we don't respond to threats. welcome to the day we begin with sobering news here in germany where the number of deaths from corona virus from the corona virus pandemic is now past 50000 the head of the country's public health agency has described the figure as distressing and is urging the government to maintain the tough national lockdown until there's a significant drop in deaths the new infections are the country's biggest problems is the situation in its nursing homes. the vaccine rollout is well underway in german nursing homes but they remain a big 19 hotspot there are currently outbreaks in hundreds across the country he even as the overall infection right steadily f

google and rival facebook of rigging the advertising auction opportunity ambitious texas attorney general ken paxton is leading that 10 state lawsuit accusing google quote a trillion dollar monopoly of brazenly abusing its monopolistic power going so far as to induce senior facebook executives to agree to a contractual scheme that undermines the heart of the competitive process fair charge or bomb rap let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the law firm 11 papen tonio sara welcome back and 1st things 1st your quick legal leads to english explanation of the trust law. well haul an antitrust law became necessary years ago when we saw the steel industry and the railroad industry really taken off we started seeing major corporations teaming up with one another to fix prices for street competition and to control market participation in a way that took advantage of us consumers see the united states then realized that since corporations weren't going to act in the best interest of their consumers that we the united states had to force them to so they created what we call antitrust laws and the m

you mentioned google and google is your top pick in that area. but, you know, i'm hearing about the death of the cookie and we hear about meta and snap having to navigate those appleios changes and figure out how to target consumers in a new way. tell us why you like google and snap in light of some of those challenges it seems like one of the main appeals of google has nothing to do with advertising and everything to do with their cloud services >> you're right. probably our most differentiated call on google really relates to the cloud business and our call is that the growth in the top line in cloud is going to come in much stronger this year than the consensus estimates. and the costs are actually going to come down faster than consensus leading to a fast er infliction towards google cloud and that's really predicated if you look back since thomas curian joined google cloud and brought the huge effort to the salesforce you look at 4q 2020 and they saw the biggest growth in their backlog that they've seen historically and we're about entering

in its search engine a corresponding law was drafted in december google says that's unacceptable and it retaliated at a hearing before the australian senate. the principle of unrestricted linking between websites is fundamental to say and coupled with the unmanageable financial and operational risk if this version of the card would have become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making google search available in australia this would be the 1st time that google had pulled out of an entire continent but australia isn't taking it lying down. to strive you. now rules for things you can do in a strike that's done in a palm and it's done by our government and that's how things work here in stride and people who want to work with that in australia you're very welcome but we respond to threats google has a lot to lose if australia goes ahead with its demands other countries could follow europe has long post a challenge for the tech company after months wrangling with french publishers on thursday google finally agreed a payment framework for including their content on its search

this is what google knows about us. perhaps there really are some things that we should keep to ourselves, but the experiment goes further. the ok an artist also focus on me. during the film i need to answer questions. this may seem basic, but the algorithms from may to measure also process other information. at the end of the program, we show you what else they look out for. and while the results about me are google collect my data. as soon as i start searching for something online or what's the youtube video? the same is true for apple, amazon, and facebook. the magic word here is cookies. cookies are actually tiny text files that are saved on your device. in homeless cases, cookies contain information such as you'll use a name or the language the website should be displayed and but data brokers and advertising companies so called 3rd party uses. also use cookies to gather data. as soon as you allow cookies, your data is collected. the online forms that prevent them from doing so often long and confusing. they regular