A group of 50 states and territories in the US have launched an investigation into Google’s dominance of the online advertising market. The coalition warned that the search giant may be threatening competition and consumers. They also raised concerns over
House lawmakers grilled executives from Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in a hearing Tuesday as part of their wide-ranging investigation into big tech companies and the threats they may pose to competition. The hearing, held by the House Judiciary Committee’s
President Trump has said his administration will look into alleged links between Google and China. It follows a speech given by Peter Thiel in which the billionaire tech investor asked whether Google’s senior management considered itself to have been infiltrated by Chinese
Google has cut phone maker Huawei off from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese firm. New Huawei smartphones will also lose access to popular Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration
London (CNN Business)Protests are planned at Google offices following allegations of retaliation against employees who participated in walkouts last year. Protest leaders have called on workers to participate in sit-ins at Google offices on Wednesday, six months after walkouts over the
Google’s is “committed to the US Military, not the Chinese Military” President Trump said after meeting the firm’s chief executive on Wednesday. In a tweet, the President said he and Sundar Pichai also discussed “political fairness and various things that
LONDON — European authorities on Wednesday fined Google 1.5 billion euros for antitrust violations in the online advertising market, continuing its efforts to rein in the world’s biggest technology companies. The fine, worth about $1.7 billion, is the third against
Google plans to spend more than $13bn (£10.1bn) this year, as it builds data centres and offices across the US. The search giant promoted its plans in a blog post on Wednesday, saying the investments would spur the creation of more than
Google has been fined 50 million euros (£44m) by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU’s data protection rules. CNIL said it had levied the record fine for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of
Search engine is lobbying hard to stop proposed tax, aimed at compensating news publishers Google’s top news executive has refused to rule out shutting down GoogleNews in EU countries, as the search engine faces a battle with Brussels over plans to