USA: Lawmakers tell Apple, Google CEOs to prepare for ban on TikTok
Dec 14, 2024, at 02:40 pm
Two US lawmakers have sent a letter to the CEOs of Apple and Alphabet asking them to be ready to remove the Chinese-owned app TikTok from the American app stores on January 19.
Sep 08, 2024, at 03:53 am
YouTube on Thursday said that it is terminating the Tenet Media channel and four other channels run by its owner, Lauren Chen, following an indictment from the U.S. Department of Justice over alleged connections with Russian state media network’s employees who face money laundering charges, Reuters reported.
Aug 10, 2024, at 08:54 pm
Former YouTube CEO and one of the earlier employees of search engine Google Susan Wojcicki has died after her two-year-long battle against lung cancer, her husband announced on Friday.
US judge rules Google's online search monopoly is illegal, Alphabet plans to appeal against decision
Aug 06, 2024, at 08:10 pm
Giving a blow to Google, a US judge on Monday ruled that it illegally acted to beat competition and maintain a monopoly in the area of online search and related advertisement.
Tech giants Google, Netflix, others to host fundraiser for Kamala Harris on August 27: Reports
Aug 05, 2024, at 07:37 pm
Tech executives from Google, Netflix, and OpenAI will be hosting a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington DC on August 27, media reports said.
Google, US Justice Dept wrap up closing arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly
May 04, 2024, at 08:35 pm
Washington/IBNS: American multinational technology company Google and the United States Department of Justice on Friday (May 3) made the final arguments over claims that the Alphabet, Google's parent unit, has unlawfully dominated web search and related advertising, in a case the US government contends could shape the “future of the internet", reports said.
Canada reaches deal with tech giant Google over Online News Act
Dec 01, 2023, at 03:22 am
Toronto/IBNS: The Canadian government has inked a deal over the Online News Act with tech giant Google that needs the latter to pay $100 million annually to publishers, and to allow access to Canadian news content on its platform.
Google employee, who worked with the IT major for 12.5 years, laid off during maternity leave
Oct 03, 2023, at 11:42 pm
A former Google employee has claimed she was laid off from the company while she was on maternity leave after serving the tech major for 12 years.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin divorced his wife over alleged affair with Elon Musk
Sep 17, 2023, at 02:44 am
New York: Google co-founder Sergey Brin has quietly divorced his wife, Nicole Shanahan, allegedly owing to her affair with billionaire Elon Musk, reported Page Six.
22-year-old Google techie wants to retire early, but how much does he plan to save?
Sep 05, 2023, at 10:40 pm
Despite instances of layoff in recent months, tech majors Google and Meta still remain the highest-paying employers in the world and this is evident from the story of a 22-year-old techie who is planning to retire at 35 with savings of nearly USD 5 million (Rs 41 crore).
Canada suspends its advertising on Facebook, Instagram over Online News Act disagreement
Jul 07, 2023, at 03:57 am
Toronto/IBNS: Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said that following Meta’s decision to pull Canadian news from its platforms in response to the Online News Act, the federal government would suspend all its advertising on Facebook and Instagram.
Apr 21, 2023, at 04:57 am
Montreal/IBNS: A Quebec Superior Court judge directed Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man for restoring a link to an online post falsely accusing him of being a pedophile.
Google blocks 50,000 accounts for pushing Chinese disinformation
Feb 01, 2023, at 02:03 am
California: Popular US-based search engine Google has disclosed it took steps to dismantle over 50,000 instances of activity orchestrated by a pro-Chinese influence operation known as DRAGONBRIDGE in 2022.
US sues Google for 15 years of monopoly, advertising abuse
Jan 25, 2023, at 03:42 pm
New York: The Justice Department and the attorney-generals of eight US states filed a joint lawsuit against Google, determining to end its 15 years of monopoly of the Internet through alleged abuses of the digital advertising space.
Mainland China: Google shuts down translation services
Oct 05, 2022, at 03:44 am
Beijing: American tech giant Google has announced its decision of shutting down the Google Translate service in mainland China, media reports said on Tuesday.
Mother sues Meta, Snap over daughter’s suicide
Jan 22, 2022, at 03:59 pm
Washington/UNI: A woman has filed lawsuit against Instagram's parent company Meta and Snap Inc as an addiction to their social media platforms caused the suicide of her 11-year old daughter.
Twitter, Google, TikTok fined by Russian court for failing to comply with Moscow's directive
May 28, 2021, at 07:23 pm
Moscow: A court in Russia has fined social network site Twitter 19 million rubles (USD 259,000) for not deleting content the country views as illegal, according to reports.
Google joins 30 other tech companies to support the work visas for immigrant spouses
May 15, 2021, at 05:57 am
Mount View/IBNS: Search engine giant Google has joined 30 other tech companies to protect the work visas for spouses of highly skilled tech immigrants.
Google fires senior researcher at AI Ethics team amid investigation of diversity policies
Feb 20, 2021, at 10:51 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Google's chief researcher on artificial intelligence ethics Margaret Mitchell said Saturday she was fired, which comes several weeks after controversial firing of ethical AI team co-leader Timnit Gebru and amid an internal probe of the company's policies on diversity and research.
Several Google services down right now in worldwide outrage
Dec 14, 2020, at 11:32 pm
New York: Google users across the globe are seemingly finding trouble using the various services provided by the IT giant.
US Google searches of 'can I change my vote' soar Tuesday morning
Oct 28, 2020, at 02:43 pm
Washington/Sputnik: Google searches in the United States about whether citizens can change their vote after casting it peaked early Tuesday morning, a week before the November vote, data from the search engine revealed.
Google extends work from home through June 2021
Jul 28, 2020, at 02:48 pm
San Francisco/Xinhua: Google will allow most employees to work from home through June 2021 as COVID-19 cases continue to surge, according to a report by San Francisco Chronicle on Monday.
US launches probe into Google's medical data project Nightingale: reports
Nov 13, 2019, at 04:47 pm
Washington/Sputnik/UNI: The US Health Department had opened a federal inquiry into tech giant Google’s Project Nightingale, which aims to collect and analyze personal medical data, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Google collects US citizens' health data as part of secret project - Reports
Nov 12, 2019, at 10:19 am
Moscow/Sputnik/UNI: US tech giant Google has partnered with Ascension, one of the largest US healthcare systems, in a secret project to collect and analyze the personal health data of millions of US citizens in 21 states, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources and documents.
Google to pay 965 mln euros to settle fiscal disputes with France
Sep 13, 2019, at 05:24 pm
Paris, Sep 13 (Xinhua/UNI) US tech giant Google has agreed to pay 965 million euros (1.068 billion US dollars) to settle disputes with the French tax authorities in a fraud inquiry that began four years ago.
Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
Aug 28, 2019, at 06:06 pm
San Francisco, Aug 28 (Xinhua/UNI) Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski was charged Tuesday with stealing trade secrets when he appeared in a San Jose court in Silicon Valley.
Google unveils next-generation Assistant
May 08, 2019, at 05:27 pm
San Francisco, May 8 (Xinhua/UNI) Google on Tuesday debuted its next-generation Google Assistant, touting "milestone" features that empower mobile devices with new speech recognition and language understanding capabilities.
Google fined 1.49bln euros for anti-trust breach by EU
Mar 20, 2019, at 06:30 pm
Brussels, Mar 20 (Xinhua/UNI) US internet giant Google on Wednesday received a new fine ticket of 1.49 billion euros (1.69 billion US dollars) from the European Union (EU) for breaching of anti-trust rules.
Google plans to ban political ads before Canadian elections
Mar 05, 2019, at 09:06 am
Ottawa, Mar 5 (UNI) In the wake of Canadian federal election, Alphabet Inc’s Google has planned to ban political advertising on its platform as the nation's new transparency rules would be very difficult to comply with.
Google decides to shut down Google+ after users' personal data exposed
Oct 09, 2018, at 09:55 am
New York, Oct 9 (IBNS): Internet search engine Google on Monday announced that it has decided to shut down social network Google+ for consumers.