Google seems to be striking a more humble and conciliatory tone in Europe — out of necessity. Eric Schmidt, the primary face of Google in...

Re/Code is reporting that Google’s SVP of Communications and Policy Rachel Whetstone is leaving for a similar role at Uber. She’ll...

As discussed in my companion article, it has been a year since the “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) was established in Europe by the EU...

As expected, the European Commission has filed a “Statement of Objections” against Google. These are formal antitrust charges against the...

According to anonymous sources (reported first by Economic Times of India), Google and India-based mobile ad network/platform InMobi are...

European governments for some time have been trying to collect more tax revenue from US based tech companies. A so-called “diverted...

Reuters reported this morning that Russia’s competition regulator had formally opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s control...

Under fire from European regulators since it consolidated its privacy policies into one in 2012, Google has maintained its privacy policy...

EU digital czar Günther Oettinger is signaling that he wants to make a series of moves to level the digital playing field for European...

Germany has been in some ways the epicenter of Google criticism in Europe. And that criticism is personified in the form of the new...

Just as Google’s US search market share seems to have topped out at about 67 percent, Android’s global market share may also have peaked...

In another blow to Google’s privacy policy in Europe, the German data-protection regulator Johannes Caspar is ordering the company to...

Under Vladimir Putin Russia has taken many steps backward toward its repressive, Cold War past. It’s apparently taking another by...

According to Reuters, Google was given formal privacy recommendations this week in response to its consolidated privacy policy, which...

A court in Berlin Germany has ordered Google to “stop ignoring customer emails and start offering a way to communicate with the company.”...

Reuters. The blog/online newspaper 14ymedio.com is the original source of the story. There were no official statements by Google or the...

settled its investigation of Google without any significant penalty or restrictions. More recently, the long European antitrust inquiry...

imposition of a fine by the French National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL) for violating consumer privacy, Google...

was fined for violating French privacy rules with its “unified” privacy policy. The French National Commission for Computing and Civil...

later confirmation of the $2.91 billion sale of Google’s Motorola hardware unit to Lenovo there were many theories presented about why...