Tag: Google

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  New chapter of the legal saga: Google will appeal a 2.4bn Euro penalty from the EU's antitrust regulator

  

  Google and the EU have a big day in court on Wednesday as the search engine giant enters a new phase of a legal saga that began a decade ago. The Silicon Valley juggernaut is appealing a 2.4 billion Euro (US$2.6 billion) fine from 2017 that was the first in a series of major penalties from the European Commission, the EU's powerful anti-trust regulator.

• 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.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Google bans political advisors' microtargeting, but decision could help incumbents and punish rookies

  

  Google's tightening of its political ad policy could help reduce the spread of misinformation on election campaigns, but at a cost for lesser-known candidates. The move by Google placing restrictions on how advertisers can target specific groups of voters also adds to the pressure on Facebook to modify its hands-off policy on political ads.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 20:37 UTC

  Google data center project in Uruguay under way

  

  Google plans to build a data centre for storage and server management within Uruguay's Science Park in the Canelones area, it was announced. It will be Google's second such facility in Latin America, the other one being in Chile.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  EC warns Facebook, Google, Twitter: tackle fake news or face regulatory action

  

  Facebook, Google and Twitter must do more to tackle fake news or face regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2019 - 18:54 UTC

  Australia files lawsuit against Alphabet Google for misleading consumers on stored personal data

  

  Australia's consumer regulator filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday, alleging it misled consumers about how it was collecting, storing and using personal location data.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 18:40 UTC

  Is Google's Sycamore machine a breakthrough to ”quantum supremacy”?

  

  Scientists claimed on Wednesday to have achieved a near-mythical state of computing in which a new generation of machines vastly outperforms the world's fastest super-computer, known as “quantum supremacy”.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Landmark ruling by Europe highest court strikes a balance between privacy rights and freedom of speech

  

  If you want your past to be forgotten on the internet, it might be best to move to Europe. Google will not have to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law globally, the continent’s top court ruled on Tuesday in a landmark case that has pitted personal privacy rights against freedom of speech.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 21:58 UTC

  Google settles tax dispute with France paying almost one billion Euros

  

  US internet giant Google has agreed a settlement totaling €945 million (US$1 billion) to end a tax dispute in France under an agreement announced in court on Thursday. The company will pay a €500 million fine for tax evasion, as well as a further €465 million to settle claims with French tax authorities.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 21:29 UTC

  Google to become “editor in chief” with logarithms outstanding original reporting

  

  Original reporting will be highlighted in Google's search results, the company said as it announced changes to its algorithm. The world's largest search engine has come under increasing criticism from media outlets, mainly because of its algorithms - a set of instructions followed by computers - that newspapers have often blamed for plummeting online traffic and the industry's decline.