A New York jewel tycoon pleaded guilty Friday to using a forged judge’s signature to scrub Google clean of bad reviews, in the same federal court district of the judge whose signature he copied.
Read moreBanned by the mainstream app stores, a social network that caters to Trump supporters and global dissidents alike brought a federal complaint Thursday against Google.
Read moreThree women filed a gender bias class action against Google on Thursday, claiming the technology titan pays them substantially less than men for performing similar work.
Read moreA federal judge indicated on Thursday that she will approve a preliminary settlement between Google and users whose email content was scanned for advertising purposes.
Read moreIn another volley in the driverless-car trade-secrets battle between Waymo and Uber as an October jury trial approaches, a federal magistrate on Monday quashed two subpoenas served on Waymo’s outside counsel as beyond the scope of a discovery order.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a ruling allowing Google to settle an internet privacy class action by giving $8.5 million to six nonprofit privacy organizations instead of class members, despite ties between organizations and some of the attorneys handling the case.
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The Google engineer who sent a controversial internal memo about how biological differences between men and women are why more men work in computer science fields has been fired by the company.
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Google distanced itself on Monday from a 10-page blog post written by an engineer who said biological differences between men and women are the reason for the lack of female representation at the company.
Read moreGoogle’s semi-secret research and development wing has been toying with how to store energy generated by renewable sources like solar and wind.
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A Canadian Supreme Court order that Google block websites from its global search index violates the First Amendment, Google claimed in a federal lawsuit Monday.
Read moreAn administrative law judge has ruled that Google must turn over some salary details of its employees to the U.S. Department of Labor, which is investigating whether the company discriminates against female workers by paying them less than their male counterparts.
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The European Commission Tuesday Slapped Google with a $2.7 billion fine for breaching their antitrust rules. The Commission said its action was the result of a lengthy investigation, and that the tech giant abused its market dominance by favoring its shopping service in searches.
Read moreDespite multiple orders directing Uber to hand over evidence in a trade secrets brawl with Google spinoff Waymo involving driverless car technology, attorneys for both companies were back in court Friday debating which documents Uber must share.
Read moreAs he indicated he would at a hearing Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed unfair competition claims against Uber filed by Waymo, which accused the ride-sharing service of stealing information about its self-driving car technology. Waymo’s other claims related to trade secrets will proceed.
Read moreA federal judge Wednesday was unmoved by accusations that he’d forced Uber to fire its star engineer Anthony Levandowski for refusing to deliver evidence that could prove Levandowski and Uber stole trade secrets from its driverless car rival Waymo.
Read moreAn advertiser who claimed almost half of the hits on Google’s AdWords program were invalid or fraudulent couldn’t convince a federal judge that his class action should go forward.
Read moreUber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who had been leading the company’s driverless-car program until Google spinoff Waymo accused it and Levandowski of stealing its technology in a high-profile lawsuit.
Read moreA federal magistrate indicated Thursday that Uber may have to turn over key documents it has tried to keep from Google spinoff Waymo that could prove Uber stole its driverless car technology.
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A court in Lithuania wants more information from the United States before ruling on the extradition of a local businessman suspected of conning Google and Facebook out of over $100 million.
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