A Portuguese court has ruled against Alphabet’s Google in a landmark case involving a local app. Portuguese app store Aptoide revealed that the court has ordered Google to stop removing its app from users’ mobile phones without their knowledge. “This court’s decision is a signal...
Alphabet’s Google is gearing up to charge hardware companies as much as $40 per device to use its mobile apps as part of a new licensing system that will replace one the European Union found was anticompetitive. Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter, reported...
The New York Attorney General and the Connecticut Attorney General are investigating the Google data breach that may have exposed the private data of at least 500,000 users. Google announced Monday (October 8) that it is shutting down Google+ after finding a security bug that made...
Google is readying an appeal of the European Union’s record €4.34bn fine, which it was slapped with in July over its Android mobile operating system. According to the Financial Times, Google has until Wednesday (October 10) to file an appeal with the European Court of...
Google Assistant can now help users book a car from Uber, Lyft, Ola, Grab, GO-JEK and other ridesharing services. The feature, which works with Google Assistant-enabled speakers and on phones, allows users to request a car from a specific company or place a general request...
Google has acquired customer service automation startup Onward for an undisclosed sum. According to reports, Onward Co-founders Rémi Cossart and Pramod Thammaiah, as well as CTO Aaron Podolny, will be joining Google as part of the deal. “With Google, we’ll be able to expand the...
Google has handed over a second report to European Union (EU) antitrust regulators, detailing its proposal to allow more shopping rivals to bid for ads on top of its search page. Last year, the company was hit with a €2.4 billion (nearly $2.8 billion USD)...
Here’s the thing: Does Google know how to yell? Or even raise its voice from time to time? Odd questions, huh? But they came to mind when considering all the new ways in which Google — and other digital operations, no doubt, but Google is...
In order to remain Safari’s default search engine, Google reportedly has an arrangement with Apple. If that is the case, analysts claim the deal could be worth billions, 9to5 Google reported. Neither Apple nor Google have publicly discussed such a tie-up, but Analyst Rod Hall...