Google unveils new products in virtual event
Earlier this week, Google unveiled a number of new hardware products through a live event which the company streamed online, including smartphones, a new Nest...
Google offers data pledge in bid to win EU okay for Fitbit buy
Alphabet Inc’s Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address...
Google co-founders step aside as Pichai takes helm of parent Alphabet
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping aside as leaders of the Internet behemoth they founded 21 years ago, ending an extraordinary run...
Google bars elections ads from using political leanings, voter data
Alphabet Inc’s Google will stop giving advertisers the ability to target election ads using data such as public voter records and general political affiliations, the company said...
U.S. to probe French plan to tax tech companies
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an investigation into France’s planned tax on technology companies, a...
Google and Durham University ‘virtually’ bring buffer zone to life
Cyprus is one of three places used for the project ‘Portraits of No Man’s Land’, launched on Google Arts and Culture this week and prepared...
Apple touts privacy in web sign-on war with Facebook, Google
By Stephen Nellis Apple Inc on Monday a “Sign In With Apple” function this week to rival Facebook and Google web login accounts, drawing a contrast with...
EU lawmakers back copyright reforms targeting Google, Facebook
By Foo Yun Chee STRASBOURG, March 26 (Reuters) – EU lawmakers have endorsed an overhaul of the bloc’s two-decade old copyright rules, which will force...
Huge upsurge in Google searches for Cyprus tourism
Google searches by people interested in tourism in Cyprus reach about 100 million a year, while in 2017 there was a 60 per cent increase,...
Fearful Google blocks gender-based pronouns from new AI tool
Alphabet Inc’s Google in May introduced a slick feature for Gmail that automatically completes sentences for users as they type. Tap out “I love” and...
White House probes Google after Trump accuses it of bias
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address...
Google staff demand more oversight of China search engine plan
Google is not close to launching a search engine app in China, its chief executive said at a companywide meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript seen...
Trump slams EU over fine on Google
US President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the European Union and said the bloc was taking advantage of the United States, pointing to the record...
EU fines Google record 4.34 bln euros over Android
EU antitrust regulators levied a record 4.34-billion-euro ($5.04 billion) fine against Google on Wednesday for illegal restrictions on Android smartphone makers and mobile network operators....
Moment of truth for Google as record EU antitrust fine looms
Google is set to face a record-busting EU antitrust fine this week over its Android mobile operating system but rivals hoping that an order to...
EU votes for tougher copyright rules to rein in tech giants
Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted in favour of tougher...
Washington state sues Facebook, Google over election ad disclosure
The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google for allegedly violating state campaign finance law by failing...
Google and Facebook accused of GDPR violations
As Europe’s new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data...
Britain to regulate young people’s use of social media
Britain’s health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they do more to protect young people using their services....
The art of predicting – a human vs machine battle?
Forecasting is a tricky business, but Nesta isn’t backing down from the human-versus-machine battle. Forecasting is a fool’s errand, so why we do fallible humans...
