Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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Amazon, Google make dueling nuclear investments to power data centers
Tech giants Amazon and Google are investing in the next generation of nuclear reactors.
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EU forcing Google, Apple to pay billions in fines and back taxes
Both companies have now exhausted their appeals in cases that date to the previous decade and helped jumpstart an era of intensifying scrutiny for Big Tech.
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Google faces another antitrust trial after ruling that declared search engine a monopoly
The Justice Department and Google each made opening statements Monday to a federal judge who will decide whether Google holds a monopoly over online advertising technology.
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Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, dies at 56
Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served 9 years as YouTube’s CEO.
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Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance
A judge ruled that the ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation – a seismic decision that could shake up the internet.
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Google dangled more than $500 million to foil Microsoft EU cloud pact
However, the attempt to derail the cloud firms’ antitrust settlement with Microsoft Corp. failed.
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Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral
While many of the examples were silly, others were dangerous or harmful falsehoods.
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Google, Justice Department argue whether search engine is a monopoly
The biggest antitrust trial in more than two decades has revolved around how much Google derives its strength from contracts with companies like Apple to make Google the default search engine preloaded on cellphones and computers.
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Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel
An activist group says Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war.