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The Google campus in Mountain View, Califfornia (Jeff Chiu/AP)

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Google avoids break-up in search monopoly case

A federal judge has ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the US government’s attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints.

<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Google had been sued. Picture: Tim Goode/PA</p>

world

Mexico sues Google for labelling Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America

A man walks past Google’s offices in London’s Kings Cross area (Brian Melley/AP)

world

Google’s digital ad network declared illegal monopoly by US judge

Google agrees to pay Italy £282 million to settle tax evasion investigation

world

Google agrees to pay Italy £282 million to settle tax evasion investigation

US regulators seek to break up Google and force Chrome sale

world

US regulators seek to break up Google and force Chrome sale

Bank payments and new anti-fraud rules

technology

Google tools to combat mobile phone theft start rolling out to users

US considers asking court to break up Google amid competition case

US considers asking court to break up Google amid competition case

The US Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force tech giant Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly.

Wed, 09 Oct, 2024

Burgos, Spain, April 13, 2020: Play store application icon on smartphone screen. Mobile application icon of play store. Google P

US judge orders Google to open its Android app store to competition

A federal judge on Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as a punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company’s internet empire.

Mon, 07 Oct, 2024

WhatsApp fined 225 million euro by Irish data protection commissioner

Data Protection Commission launches probe into Google’s AI model

The probe involves examining whether Google complied with any obligations to undertake an assessment, under GDPR laws, prior to processing the personal data of EU/EEA data subjects in developing its AI Model

Thu, 12 Sep, 2024

US judge to order changes in Google’s Android app store

US judge to order changes in Google’s Android app store

Mr Donato has been weighing up how to punish Google since last December when a jury declared the Play Store a monopoly following a four-week trial

Thu, 15 Aug, 2024

Google I/O

Is Google News down? Service suffers apparent outage across desktop and mobile apps

Down Detector, a website which monitors outages across the globe, showed a surge in the number of reports that Google News was not working at around 1pm on May 31

Fri, 31 May, 2024

Google CEO visit to UK

Google boss ‘cautiously optimistic’ about protecting elections from deepfakes

Mr Pichai acknowledged that AI-generated deepfakes did pose a threat, but would be more of an issue in years to come.

Thu, 16 May, 2024

Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over ‘groundless’ reviews

Japanese doctors demand damages from Google over ‘groundless’ reviews

A group of Japanese doctors have filed a civil lawsuit against US search giant Google, demanding damages for what they claim are unpoliced, derogatory and often false comments.The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court, demands 1.4 million yen ...

Fri, 19 Apr, 2024

Google fires 28 staff after office sit-ins to protest cloud contract with Israel

Google fires 28 staff after office sit-ins to protest cloud contract with Israel

Google has fired 28 employees involved in protests over the tech company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government, according to statements from the company and campaigners.

Thu, 18 Apr, 2024

Phone app stock

Google to delete user records gathered from browser private mode

The lawsuit accuses Google of tracking Chrome users’ internet activity even when they had switched the browser to “Incognito” mode

Tue, 02 Apr, 2024

Chinese ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets

Chinese ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets

A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the US Justice Department has said.

Thu, 07 Mar, 2024

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users

Russian court fines Google for failing to store personal data on its users

A Russian court has fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users, the latest in a series of penalties issued against the technology giant amid tensions between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine.

Tue, 14 Nov, 2023

Sundar Pichai

CEO Pichai defends paying Apple and others to make Google default search engine

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has given evidence in the biggest US antitrust case in a quarter of a century, defending his company’s practice of paying Apple and other tech companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices.

Mon, 30 Oct, 2023

Google uses dominance to lock out competitors and smother innovation, trial told

Google uses dominance to lock out competitors and smother innovation, trial told

Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said at the opening of the biggest US anti-trust trial in a quarter of a century.

Tue, 12 Sep, 2023

Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades

Google takes on the US in biggest antitrust trial in decades

Google will confront a threat to its dominant search engine beginning on Tuesday when federal regulators launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter century.

Tue, 12 Sep, 2023

Google to require prominent disclosure of political ads altered with AI

Google to require prominent disclosure of political ads altered with AI

Google has said political adverts using artificial intelligence (AI) must soon be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered.

Thu, 07 Sep, 2023

Tech giants branded online ‘gatekeepers’ in next phase of EU’s digital crackdown

Tech giants branded online ‘gatekeepers’ in next phase of EU’s digital crackdown

The European Union has targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies.

Wed, 06 Sep, 2023

Google says it is developing AI tools to help journalists create stories

Google says it is developing AI tools to help journalists create stories

Google says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence tools to help journalists write stories and headlines, and has discussed its ideas with leaders in the news industry.

Thu, 20 Jul, 2023

EU watchdog orders Google to break up digital ad business over competition fears

EU watchdog orders Google to break up digital ad business over competition fears

European Union regulators have ordered technology giant Google to sell off some of its lucrative digital advertising business in order to address competition concerns.

Wed, 14 Jun, 2023

San Francisco US, Jan 2023: Female hands holding a phone with the Google Bard website on the screen. Interior shot. Bard is Goog

Google opens its ChatGPT competitor to US and UK users

Google has opened its own conversational artificial intelligence service called Bard to users in the US and the UK as the company plays catch-up to Microsoft and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Tue, 21 Mar, 2023

Google suspends Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo amid malware concerns

Google has suspended the Chinese shopping platform Pinduoduo on its app store after malware was discovered in versions of the app from other sources.

Tue, 21 Mar, 2023

Europe Google

EU court: Google must delete inaccurate search information if asked

Strict data protection rules in the 27-nation bloc give people the right to control what appears when their name is searched online, but the regulations frequently pit data privacy concerns against the public’s right to know.

Thu, 08 Dec, 2022

Revealed: What Ireland searched for on Google in 2022

Revealed: What Ireland searched for on Google in 2022

Celebrity conflict aplenty kept Google users tapping away this year, but we also wanted to know more about Ukraine, writes Michelle McGlynn

Wed, 07 Dec, 2022

Google stock

Google appeals against huge Android anti-trust fine to EU’s top court

In its 2018 decision, the commission found that the dominance of Google’s Android resulted in less competition and consumer choice.

Thu, 01 Dec, 2022

Google-Location Tracking-State Settlement

Google reaches $391.5m settlement with 40 US states over location tracking

The AP reported that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you have used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.

Mon, 14 Nov, 2022

NYSE to set up Belfast outpost

Big tech stocks rocked as US interest rate hikes start to bite

Volatility gripped US stocks as investors contended with losses from big tech firms after a batch of lacklustre earnings underscored how the US rate hikes is impacting the economy.

Wed, 26 Oct, 2022

Google unveils Pixel 7 smartphone range and new smartwatch

Google unveils Pixel 7 smartphone range and new smartwatch

The technology giant said the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro were more efficient and powerful thanks to the second generation Tensor G2 processor

Thu, 06 Oct, 2022

Google stock

EU court largely upholds massive Google Android anti-competition fine

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

Wed, 14 Sep, 2022

Google faces legal cases in Europe over digital advertising

Google faces legal cases in Europe over digital advertising

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

Tue, 13 Sep, 2022

Google data

Google to delete more location information as abortion bans expand

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.

Mon, 04 Jul, 2022

Taste the Nation: This is the company who feed the people who work at Google

Taste the Nation: This is the company who feed the people who work at Google

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

Thu, 16 Jun, 2022

Australian court orders Google to pay €482,000 over defamatory YouTube videos

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

Mon, 06 Jun, 2022

More powerful cameras key to smartphone success, says Google manager

More powerful cameras key to smartphone success, says Google manager

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.

Wed, 01 Jun, 2022

Britain Tech Rules

Google strikes content deals with 300 European publishers

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

Wed, 11 May, 2022

Googles privacy changes

EU watchdogs launch competition probes into Google and Meta over ads

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.

Sat, 19 Mar, 2022

Google announces plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android

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.

Thu, 17 Feb, 2022

Google Privacy Lawsuits

Big European publishers complain to EU over Google dominance in ads

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

Fri, 11 Feb, 2022

Google Privacy Lawsuits

Google to invest £745m to push digitalisation in India

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.

Fri, 28 Jan, 2022

Russia Google Meta

Google bets on office return with $1bn London property purchase

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.

Fri, 14 Jan, 2022

Google stock

German watchdog puts Google under closer anti-competition scrutiny

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 ...

Wed, 05 Jan, 2022

Russia Google Meta

Russian court fines Google £74 million for failing to remove banned content

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.

Fri, 24 Dec, 2021

Piers Morgan reunited with director

Piers Morgan fourth most Googled person of 2021

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

Wed, 08 Dec, 2021

Google Ireland pays exchequer €218m to settle unspecified 'tax matters'

Google Ireland pays exchequer €218m to settle unspecified 'tax matters'

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

Thu, 25 Nov, 2021

Google stock

Google loses appeal against huge EU fine over shopping searches

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

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021

Google Play Store charges

Google wins UK Supreme Court appeal to block £3 billion data action

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.

Wed, 10 Nov, 2021