Smart speaker company Sonos sued Google in federal court Tuesday, accusing the Silicon Valley giant of intentionally infringing on its designs for web-connected speakers years after the two companies collaborated on music streaming plans.
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France’s competition authority has fined Google $167 million for abusing its dominant position on the market for advertising linked to web searches, the regulator announced Friday.
Read moreBritain’s competition watchdog on Wednesday signaled its willingness to push for stricter rules to counter Google and Facebook’s dominance of online advertising.
Read moreA fifth former Google worker has filed a complaint with federal regulators, accusing the company of improperly firing employees for labor organizing activity.
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Shareholders claim in a class action that Google’s $2.1 billion bid to acquire wearable fitness technology company Fitbit undervalues the company and came to fruition through an unfair process.
Read moreShareholders say in a federal class action that Fitbit issued a false and misleading proxy statement for its proposes $2.1 billion merger with Google, at $7.35 a share.
Read moreWith a monumental privacy law set to take effect in just a few weeks, privacy advocates, corporate lawyers and representatives from trade groups and financial institutions flocked to a public hearing in San Francisco on Wednesday to voice the almost unanimous view that the California Consumer Privacy Act still needs some work.
Read moreFour workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, claiming it illegally retaliated against them for organizing workers.
Read moreThe co-founders of Google are stepping down as executives of its parent company, Alphabet, ending a remarkable two decades during which Larry Page and Sergey Brin shaped a startup born in a Silicon Valley garage into one of the largest, most powerful — and, increasingly, most feared — companies in the world.
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President Trump’s re-election campaign and other Republican election groups criticized tech giant Google on Tuesday for making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people.
Read moreThe only human ever to beat Google’s computer algorithm at the ancient Chinese strategy game Go decided to retire because he is convinced machines “cannot be defeated,” a report said Wednesday.
Read moreGoogle on Monday fired four employees on the grounds they had violated data-security policies, but the tech titan was accused of persecuting them for trying to unionize staff.
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In a scathing report, Amnesty International said Thursday the business models of tech giants Facebook and Google, which make huge profits by gathering and selling data on people, are seriously undermining the privacy and human rights of billions of people.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh in on a high-stakes tech battle between Google and Oracle over whether companies can copyright certain types of computer code.
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The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufiño Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-class woman that broke from conventional portraits of the time that focused largely on wealthy men.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn Wednesday said he wouldn’t let author Stephen Elliott dig deeper into the potential contributors to a #MeToo-era Google spreadsheet that accused him of rape and other sexual misconduct.
Read moreThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claims Google collected, kept and used “highly sensitive and valuable personal information” of Android phone and tablet users without giving them an informed choice.
Read moreFrench media said Thursday they would report Google to the country’s competition regulator over its refusal to pay news companies for displaying their content in defiance of a strict new EU copyright law.
Read moreA shareholder derivative suit in federal court accuses the directors of Google parent Alphabet of costing the company $170 million in fines for improperly collecting personal information from children.
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