Anthony Levandowski, a former engineer who worked on autonomous vehicles, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of trade secrets, ending a trial that pitted two of the largest technology companies — Google and Uber — against each other.
Read moreA federal judge in California approved a $13 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Google that claimed the tech giant harvested personal data of users through unsecured wi-fi networks.
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Facebook and Google are in talks with Washington over potentially using people’s personal data to track and combat the coronavirus outbreak, the Washington Post reported.
Read moreA federal court in California granted Google’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign accusing the company of unlawfully suspending her advertisements temporarily, finding that the campaign failed to show how Google’s regulation of its platform is “in any way equivalent to a governmental regulation of an election.”
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Backing Google in a tax dispute Tuesday, Europe’s highest court chucked a $3.5 million fine related to advertising sales in Hungary.
Read moreA federal court in Washington ruled that conservative group Judicial Watch may depose former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a lawsuit relating to her use of a private email server during her tenure at the State Department. The court also ruled that the group may subpoena Google for records relating to her emails.
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Lawyers for the state of Arizona and a consumer claiming his private data was stolen by Google mapping vehicles urged a federal judge Friday to reject a settlement that would pay zero dollars to consumers.
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New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google in federal court Thursday, claiming the tech giant is illegally collecting the personal information of children under the age of 13 through the company’s Google Education service that has been adopted by schools across the country.
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No love for Google from the EU’s second-highest court on Valentine’s Day, as one judge said a $2.6 billion antitrust fine was “a small amount of cash” for the search engine juggernaut.
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It was a challenging day for Google as a judge on the EU’s second-highest court had terse words for the Silicon Valley giant about its anticompetitive behavior.
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Search engine juggernaut Google faced off against the European Union on Wednesday over a $2.6 billion fine for squashing its shopping services competition.
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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.
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