The court said it was appropriate to impose a fine of €4.125bn on Google, slightly lower than the original €4.34bn penalty

Damages claims amounting to €25bn are being filed against the tech giant in British and Dutch courts 

Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the US Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies.

Compass Group Ireland also became Ireland’s first food services company to publish a Net Zero plan to create a sustainable food system

An Australian court has ordered Google to pay a former politician AU$715,000 Australian dollars (€482,093) over two defamatory YouTube videos.

Taking photos is one of the “most important” parts of using a smartphone, a Google senior manager has said, saying the firm must make devices to allow people to “better capture and reminisce” with their pictures.

European Union countries have been adopting into local law a 2019 EU directive granting publishers additional rights over their content

EU and UK regulators have opened investigations into tech giants Google and Meta over concerns the firms broke competition rules for online display advertising services.

Google has announced plans to bring its Privacy Sandbox to the Android mobile operating system as part of efforts it says will improve user privacy.

The European Commission opened an investigation in June into whether Google favours its own online display advertising technology services to the detriment of rivals, advertisers and online publishers

Google will invest up to one billion dollars (£745 million) in partnership with India’s Airtel to provide affordable access to smartphones to over a billion Indians and speed up the use of cloud-based computing for business.

Google has said it will spend $1bn (€870m) to buy up its own London offices, keeping a major presence in the UK capital at a time when firms wrestle with how to manage employee work habits.

Germany’s anti-competition watchdog has paved the way for extra scrutiny of Google by designating it a company of “paramount significance”, the first to get that label since regulators got more power to curb abusive practices by big digital ...

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly £74 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta £20 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants.

Piers Morgan was the fourth most searched-for person on Google in the UK this year, the tech giant has revealed.

The tax payment was for "adjustments for corporation tax of prior periods", according to the latest statement for its Ireland-based company.

A top European Union court on Wednesday rejected Google’s appeal against a 2.

A £3 billion legal action against Google over claims it secretly tracked millions of iPhone users’ internet activity has been blocked by the UK Supreme Court.

The share-price advance puts the company in an exclusive club alongside Apple and Microsoft.

Google’s Pixel 6 smartphones have split industry experts over whether the new devices can challenge the mobile heavyweights of Apple and Samsung.

Google has unveiled its new flagship Pixel line of smartphones – the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, promising that the new devices will be “fast, smart and secure”.

The new policy and its parameters were created through consultation with climate science experts, including those who have worked with the United Nations on the issue

Google Maps is to begin show users more eco-friendly routes when planning transit as part of sustainability efforts announced by the tech giant.

 Facebook and Twitter have already cut pay for remote employees who moved to less expensive areas

Google has announced a raft of privacy changes for children who use its search engine and YouTube platform, designed to give minors “more control over their digital footprint”.

The announcement comes as the more contagious Delta variant of coronavirus is driving a dramatic spike in Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions

Leo Varadkar sent letters to Facebook, Twitter, Google, and TikTok in the wake of violent protests on the streets of Dublin earlier this year.

Dozens of US states are taking aim at Google in an escalating legal offensive on big tech.

Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys have sued the tech giant, alleging it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones

Google’s advertising technology is to be probed by EU investigators amid concerns the tech giant could be distorting competition.

Google has promised that it will not discriminate against rivals when implementing a new way to target advertising.

A judge has ruled that Google broke Australian law by misleading users about personal location data collected through Android mobile devices.

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in an eight billion dollar (£5. 7bn) copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.

Google Maps is to begin showing drivers more eco-friendly routes as part of efforts to cut carbon footprints.

Google has vowed not to build new ways of tracking users across the internet as it makes plans to scrap third-party cookies on Chrome.

Major Australian media organisation Seven West Media had struck a deal with Google to pay for journalism earlier this week

Google has agreed to pay a fine of 1. 1 million euros (£959,400) after French authorities concluded the search engine displayed “misleading” rankings for French hotels.

Google announced two weeks ago that it had begun paying seven far smaller Australian websites under News Showcase.

Microsoft has said it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country.

Google has said it is confident that proposals to scrap third-party cookies on Chrome are right for the web despite questions about the impact it could have on sites dependent on them for revenue.

Google has threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government goes ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison quickly hit back, saying “we don’t respond to threats”.

Latest Huawei model is a great phone but lack of Google services is a downside

The investigation will assess whether the proposals could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on the ecosystem of Google at the expense of its competitors

Smaller rivals previously complained that the company’s promises might not go far enough to stop Google shutting off access in future to rival products or services