Tag: Google

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Google restores services after a widespread outage around the world on Monday

  

  Services from Alphabet Inc’s Google were restored for most users on Monday after it experienced widespread outages around the world, preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay/Google Tannat cable system links with Brazil and Argentina

  

  The Tannat cable system connecting Uruguay and Brazil by sea has now been officially extended to Argentina. The cable is co-owned by Uruguay’s state-run telco Antel and by Google. Active since 2018, the 2,000km system links Maldonado, near Montevideo in Uruguay, to Praia Grande/Santos in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

• Wednesday, October 21st 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  US government and 11 sates sue Google; rare bipartisan Democrat/Republican coincidence

  

  The US sued Google on Tuesday, accusing the US$1 trillion company of illegally using its market muscle to hobble rivals in the biggest challenge to the power and influence of Big Tech in decades.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Ex Uber engineer sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing Google trade secrets

  

  A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from Google related to self-driving cars months before becoming the head of Uber Technologies Inc’s (UBER.N) rival unit.

• Thursday, July 30th 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Big Tech CEOs grilled in US congress, Google and Facebook accused of abusing market power

  

  Google and Facebook took particularly sharp jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from Democrats and Republicans on Wednesday in a much-anticipated congressional hearing that put four of America’s most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat.

• 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.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  Google unit workers petition the company to stop selling services to police departments

  

  More than 1,600 workers at Alphabet Inc are petitioning its Google unit to stop selling email and other services to police departments. The workers in a petition expressed disappointment with Google not joining the “millions who want to defang and defund” police departments.

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 21:10 UTC

  US and EU clash over taxes on digital firms; accord or no accord France will apply a 3% levy by end of the year

  

  France said a U.S. decision to quit global talks on how to tax big digital firms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook was a “provocation” and the European Union said it could impose taxes even if no deal was reached by year-end.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Google faces US$ 5bn class action for illegally and pervasively invading privacy of millions of users

  

  Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the Internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their Internet use through browsers set in “private mode.”

• Monday, May 18th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Google retracts itself, Cristina Fernandez is not the “thief of the Nation”

  

  Googling has become for many the source of virtual knowledge, but it is also a source of many errors and misinformation, even when accepted as the undisputed revelation. Such is the case of what happened over the weekend with the name of the Argentine leader, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Google since the first search result returned a “thief of the Nation”.