Tag: Google

• Wednesday, March 21st 2018 - 10:00 UTC

  Google pledges to combat fake news monitor misinformation during elections”

  

  Google has said it will invest US$300 million in helping news organizations to fight fake news and grow their businesses. The search engine giant will also invest in new technological tools to enhance online news consumption.

• Friday, January 26th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Soros blasts tech monopolies such as Facebook and Google: 'a threat to democracy'

  

  Hungarian born billionaire investor George Soros has criticised tech “monopolies” such as Facebook and Google, calling them a threat to democracy. At his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros warned that social media platforms were “obstacles to innovation”.

• Thursday, December 4th 2014 - 05:28 UTC

  UK to tax multinationals that siphon profits into low-tax havens

  

  Britain plans to introduce a tax to target multinationals such as Google and Amazon accused of using complex accounting schemes to cut their payments on earnings in the country.

• Friday, October 31st 2014 - 07:13 UTC

  Google victory in Argentina: search engines are not responsible for content they index

  

  In what is considered a leading case for Argentina, the country's Supreme Court said search engines are not responsible for any content they index, handing a victory to Google in what had become one of the most technologically complicated issues to reach Argentina’s highest court in recent memory.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 07:04 UTC

  European Court rules in favor of the 'right to be forgotten'

  

  Internet companies can be made to remove irrelevant or excessive personal information from search engine results, Europe’s top court ruled in a case pitting privacy campaigners against Google.

• Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:35 UTC

  France fines Google for ignoring local law on tracking and storing users info

  

  France's data protection watchdog has fined Google 150,000 Euros after the US search engine ignored a three-month ultimatum to bring its practices on tracking and storing user information in line with local law.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:29 UTC

  Washington pledges not to spy on UN communications system

  

  The United Nations said that the United States has pledged not to spy on the world body's communications after a report that the National Security Agency had gained access to the UN video conferencing system.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 16:37 UTC

  Spying on your neighbor: Rousseff demands from congress urgent legislation

  

  The US National Security Agency’s cyber spying on foreign heads of state from Angela Merkel to Dilma Rousseff is poised to produce its first high-profile corporate casualty: Google Inc.’s operations in Brazil.

• Monday, June 24th 2013 - 15:46 UTC

  Google is in a borderline crisis with European Union

  

  By Thomas Richardson - Google has reached a settlement with regulators of the European Union after antitrust charges were levied against the company. The EU accused Google of selectively displaying results based on its preferences. Google, which owns a virtual monopoly on Internet queries in Europe, is also accused of favouring the use of its own products in search results, which has drawn complaints from competitors, and the attention of regulators.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 07:43 UTC

  New Yahoo CEO compensation package could reach 70 million in five years

  

  New Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's compensation package could total more than 70 million dollars in salary, bonuses, restricted stock and stock options over five years, according to a regulatory filing made by the company Thursday.