Tag: Alphabet

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Alphabet Google removes search ads for paid voting information and registration

  

  Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:23 UTC

  Google-parent Alphabet reaches plus US$ 1 trillion market value: time to cash on the extraordinary gains?

  

  As Google-parent Alphabet became on Thursday the fourth US company to top a market value of more than US$1 trillion, some funds holding its shares are wondering whether now is the time to cash in on the stock's extraordinary gains.

• Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 10:02 UTC

  EU fines Google €1.49 billion for blocking rival online search advertisers

  

  Google was fined €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, in the third large European Union antitrust penalty for the Alphabet business in two only years.

• Friday, August 17th 2018 - 12:33 UTC

  Google employees protest plans for a “censored search engine” in China

  

  Hundreds of Google employees have written to the company to protest against plans to launch a “censored search engine” in China. They said the project raised “urgent moral and ethical questions” and urged the firm to be more transparent.