France fines Google 220m euros over online ad dominance
The penalty is part of a settlement reached after three media groups - News Corp, French daily Le Figaro and Belgium's Groupe Rossel - accused Google of...
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Facebook, Google unveil Asia-Pacific data cable plans
Facebook said on Sunday it would be investing with partners on the subsea cables known as Echo and Bifrost to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America, which would increase overall transpacific capacity by 70%.
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Google to invest over $7bn in US, create 10,000 jobs: CEO
Pichai said Google 'wants to be a part' of America's economic recovery from the pandemic and is investing in some communities that are new to the company, as well as expanding in others across 19 states.
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European publishers warn Google over ad overhaul
Google's Chrome, the world's most popular web browser, will this month begin testing an alternative to the tracking practice that it believes could improve online privacy while still enabling advertisers to serve up tailored messages.
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Google suffers brief but noticeable outage on Wed night in SA
The service monitoring platform Downdetector shows that the outage was first reported just before 7.30 pm in Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban.
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Google vows to stop tracking individual browsing for ads
The move comes with Google hammered by critics over user privacy, and increased scrutiny of privacy, and protecting people's data rights.
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Australia passes landmark law requiring tech firms to pay for news
The new law paves the way for Google and Facebook to plough tens of millions of dollars into struggling local media companies, and could provide a model for resolving tussles with regulators worldwide.
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Global tech firms in Australia launch anti-disinformation code
The measures are said to target paid and political advertising as well as content shared by users.
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Tech giants 'close' to deals with Australian media
Australia is poised to adopt legislation that would force digital companies to pay for news content, something that would create a global precedent and, according to Facebook and Google, wreck the way the internet works.
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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 functioning of the internet.
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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.
