Google agrees to change when it scans emails for ad targeting
Google agreed to change its email scanning practice on Tuesday as part of a court settlement, The Verge first reported. The changes...
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Google to EU on Android: your way means less innovation and higher prices
The European Commission (EC) has three ongoing antitrust “complaints” against Google. One of the three involves Google’s Android...
Google creates its own antitrust woes with poor communication over search listings
Did Google deliberately try to reduce the rankings of ProtonMail, a tiny rival to Google’s own Gmail service? Almost certainly not. Even...
Google antitrust woes: new South Korean probe, Russian court rejects appeal
Google continues to face mounting antitrust challenges around the globe. Beyond the three active complaints in Europe, directed at...
Russia fines Google nearly $7MM for ‘anticompetitive’ app pre-install rules
Last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) found that Google violated its competition law by requiring...
Google touts YouTube anti-piracy moves, critics remain critical
Google is a long-standing target of critics who claim that the company “encourages piracy.” While this is not a uniformly held view, and...
With third EU antitrust complaint, Google confronts $20 billion in potential fines
As expected, the European Commission (EC) filed a third “Statement of Objections” against Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Thursday. The...
Court: Viacom, not Google, on the hook for tracking kids’ behavior online
In a class-action lawsuit that alleged illegal tracking of kids’ web browsing and video-viewing habits, Google was released from the...
Supreme Court allows AdWords class action against Google to proceed
According to Reuters, the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Alphabet/Google concerning an advertiser class action. The...
Google wins its Java case against Oracle (again), saves billions in fees — for now
Oracle was seeking roughly $9 billion in licensing fees and damages from Google for the use of Java APIs in Android. However, earlier...
French tax officials perform early morning raid on Google offices in Paris
Google’s offices in Paris were “raided” today by 100 tax officials, according to the BBC. The company is accused of owing France nearly...
Report: Europe readying “record-breaking” $3.4 billion antitrust fine against Google
According to the London-based The Daily Telegraph, Google is about to get hit with a “record-breaking” antitrust fine by the European...
Report: FTC looking at reopening antitrust investigation against Google
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) officials may be preparing to reopen the “search bias” antitrust investigation against Google. That’s...
Google, Microsoft agree not to fight proxy regulatory battles against one another
Last week, Microsoft and Google decided to play nice. The two companies agreed to stop filing complaints about one another with...
Europe says Google broke antitrust law with app rules, Android contracts
As expected, Google has been hit with a formal “Statement of Objections” (antitrust charges) by the European Commission regarding its...
Report: EU antitrust charges against Google’s Android could come this week
For several months, the European Commission has been hinting through its actions and various leaks that it will file a second antitrust...
Google fails in bid to overturn Russian “no default Android apps” ruling
In February 2015, Russian search engine Yandex asked the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) to initiate an...
Report: European Commission set to file charges against Google over Android
According to a report from Bloomberg, the European Commission (EC) is about to file an antitrust complaint over the Android operating...
Class action suit accuses Google of stealing “face prints” without permission
In a case called Weiss v. Google Inc., plaintiff Joseph Weiss has filed a potential class action accusing Google of stealing “face...
Seeking $1.7 Billion In Back Taxes, France Is Latest To Go After Google
France is the latest in a growing list of countries to seek “back taxes” from Google. France is trying to collect the equivalent of...
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