Judge Skeptical of Antitrust Case Over Google Digital Ads
The judge said Google’s digital advertising business should not be looked at in a vacuum — and without considering the other advertising behemoth, Facebook.
Read moreThe judge said Google’s digital advertising business should not be looked at in a vacuum — and without considering the other advertising behemoth, Facebook.
Read moreLawmakers pushed for accountability on the spread of misinformation online — the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google pushed back.
Read moreGoogle must face another privacy lawsuit just days after the same federal judge allowed a separate but similar privacy case against the Silicon Valley giant to proceed.
Read moreThe tech giant will cut fees for low-earning app developers in half as it faces lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny over its dominance in the Android app store market.
Read moreA federal judge in California ruled Google must face privacy violation claims alleging the company tracked web browsing after users opted to use the company’s privacy mode.
Read moreGoogle has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by 2% from May to help offset the impact of a digital tax on profits.
Read moreA proposed class of consumers say Google secretly collects data on users’ app activity even after they disable data collection in their Google account privacy preferences.
Read moreAustralia’s law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news is ready to take effect, though the laws’ architect said it will take time for the digital giants to strike media deals.
Read moreGoogle said it wouldn’t run political ads in Washington state after it agreed to settle claims that it violated campaign finance laws. Then dozens more candidates and political committees reported paying Google for political ads.
Read moreMicrosoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle over whether Google and Facebook should pay for journalism.
Read moreAttorneys for Google battled it out with a group of plaintiffs who say the company violated their privacy by storing their web browsing history even though they took a specific step they believed would shield them from being tracked.
Read moreIn a response to a law that aims to make technology companies pay local news publishers a portion of their advertising revenue, Facebook said it would not allow users in Australia to post or share news content.
Read moreAustralia’s government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than per click on news article links.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will likely uphold an award of $13 million against Google over data collected by Street View cars, while a federal judge ruled Thursday that cellphone users can pursue privacy claims related to location tracking through mobile apps.
Read moreA federal court in California dismissed, with leave to amend, a putative class action alleging that video game “loot boxes” are illegal “slot machines or devices” under California’s gambling laws, and Google violates consumer protection laws by including video games with loot boxes in its Google Play store.
Read moreA settlement announced by the U.S. Department of Labor on Monday will send back pay and interest to roughly 5,500 job applicants and current employees at Google who were paid less than men or were turned down for software engineering jobs.
Read moreNo more Google money for you: The world’s most-used search engine delivered bad results Tuesday to lawmakers who objected to certifying the results of the 2020 election.
Read moreA federal court in California granted final approval of a settlement agreement in class action alleging software glitches made up to 500,000 Google Plus users’ private data accessible to third-party app developers without notice or consent.
Read moreGoogle on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content.
Read moreGoogle has signed a deal with a group of French publishers paving the way for the internet giant to make digital copyright payments for online news content.
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