Google threatens to block Australians over media law
Google Australia managing director Mel Silva warned a Senate committee in Canberra that the world-first media law was "unworkable" and would undermine the...
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Google signs deal on copyright payments to French press
The accord signed with the APIG alliance of French dailies involves "neighbouring rights," which call for payment for showing news content with internet searches, a joint statement said.
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Google 'experiment' blocks Australian news from local searches
Australia plans to force Google and Facebook to pay media organisations when their platforms host their content or face millions of dollars in fines, in one of the most aggressive moves globally to check the power of the US digital giants.
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In the search for enhanced activism, Google employees unionise
A group of employees at Google announced the unprecedented move to unionise in the effort to strengthen employee activism within the tech giant.
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Alphabet employees from Google & other outfits are unionising
One of the catalysts at Google was the recent firing of Timnit Gebru, a Black artificial intelligence ethics researcher and outspoken diversity activist.
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Bolstered by pandemic, tech titans face growing scrutiny
Governments and users are belatedly coming to terms with the power held by the likes of Apple and Amazon, particularly in focus this year thanks to their role in everything from setting up video meetings to doing our shopping for us.
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US states hit Google with new antitrust lawsuit
The suit came a day after a group of states led by Texas filed a separate antitrust suit and asked to be consolidated with the federal case against Google.
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Massive outage hits Google services worldwide
Google indicated the outage had affected all of its services for the 'majority' of users.
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Facebook, Google becoming 'human rights-free zones' in Vietnam: Amnesty
Communist Vietnam has long jailed its critics but has come under fire in recent years for targeting users on Facebook, a popular forum for activists in the country where all independent media is banned.
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Google launches strong encryption for Android messages
The move brings additional privacy and security to Google's messaging application, but comes amid rising complaints from law enforcement agencies around the world that strong encryption may enable criminals to hide their tracks.
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Facebook, Google extend political ad ban amid misinformation rise
Facebook product manager Rob Leathern announced late Wednesday that the social media giant would keep in place a ban on election ads for an unspecified period while awaiting the certification of the 3 November election result.
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Apple developing search engine to compete with Google - report
The report, citing unnamed sources, said signs of the search engine technology have begun to appeal in its iOS 14 operating system.
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US senators to grill big tech CEOs on legal immunity
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - summoned alongside Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet - said proposed reforms could lead to more harmful and abusive content online, and would limit rather than expand free expression.
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Google's war on all fronts over media, competition and tax
US authorities have had the digital giant in their sights for years, and now accuse it of breaching competition law to maintain its iron grip on search and online advertising.
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US slaps Google with antitrust suit, eyes possible breakup
The politically-charged case, which could take years to play out, draws new battle lines between the US government and Big Tech with potentially major implications for the sector.
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Google services down for users around the world
Frustrated customers complained online of the outage and tracking website DownDetector reported Google services were down in every continent.
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Google unveils cheaper Pixel smartphone, teases 5G
The Pixel 4a boasts core features popular that made its top-of-the-line predecessor popular, like a sophisticated camera system.
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Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out
The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner on behalf a handful of individual consumers. The firm’s clients also have included Google competitors such as Facebook Inc and Oracle Corp.
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Google says it will pay publishers for news content
In a blog post the firm said they would launch "a licensing program to pay publishers for high-quality content for a new news experience" due to launch later this year.
