Google CEO Sundar Pichai has donated five crore rupees to ‘Give India’ to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Give India tweeted, ‘Thank you Sundar Pichai for giving a grant of five crore rupees from Google to provide the much-needed cash assistance to the families of the daily wage labourers.’
Earlier, Google had announced assistance of more than $ 800 million as part of efforts to tackle the Kovid-19 epidemic. This includes a $ 200 million investment fund for NGOs and banks, which will help small businesses to raise capital.
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This free service due to lockdown
Due to the lockdown, Google has recently rebranded its video conferencing and messaging platform ‘Hangout’ to make ‘Meet’ (Meet). Also, at the time of this lockdown, Google has extended the date to access its premium features for free. Google announced last month that all G Suite customers can use the premium features of Meet till 1 July, but now it has been extended to 30 September.
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Under the Google Meet Premium feature, up to 250 people can have a video conference simultaneously. Also, users can live stream content up to 100,000 viewers with domains. Apart from this, G Suite users can also record meetings in premium features.
