Google agreed to pay $700 million and allow more competition within its Android app store as part of a settlement with all 50 states and millions of US consumers – a deal that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney decried as an “injustice to all Android users and developers.” The exact […]
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Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have kept a low profile as the Big Tech firm weathers a series of critical antitrust court battles – and it’s part of a long-running pattern of avoiding federal scrutiny, experts say. The search giant is reeling after a shocking court loss to […]
They’re one of the most privacy-invading technologies on the web. But from January 4, Google is starting to turn off third-party cookies – the intrusive computer files that track your behaviour. The tech giant is randomly selecting one per cent of Chrome users around the world – about 30 million […]
Everyone is looking for deals before Christmas, but many Google search results for bargains on certain tech products could carry hidden malware and viruses. The phenomenon is not new, as scammers have been known to conceal malware in searches for celebrities’ names. But a new study has revealed that Google […]
By George Sessions, Pa Published: 08:57 GMT, 15 December 2023 | Updated: 08:59 GMT, 15 December 2023 England captain Harry Kane has enlisted the help of Google’s AI tool Bard to help his family get ready to settle into their new life in Munich. Kane left boyhood club Tottenham in […]
Google is deleting a popular app in another shakeup at the company. The Google Play Movies & TV app is soon to be no more. The service is already removed from Roku devices and most smart TVs, and over the next few weeks, Google will continue to shut it down […]
The future of Google’s lucrative “Play Store” for Android apps has been thrown into doubt after the tech giant suffered a shocking antitrust loss to “Fortnite” maker Epic Games. In a stunning verdict that took just three hours, a federal jury in San Francisco found late Monday that Google was […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Google lost an antitrust lawsuit over barriers to its Android app store, as a federal court jury has decided that the company’s payments system was anticompetitive and damaged smartphone consumers and software developers. It’s a blow to a major pillar of Google’s technology empire. But it’s a […]