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Google is paying $450 million for a nearly 7% stake in longtime home and business security provider ADT Inc., a deal that will open new opportunities for one of the internet’s most powerful companies to extend the reach of its Nest cameras and voice-activated voice assistant.

The leaders of big tech companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were interrogated by Congress on Capitol Hill this week for misusing their market power. Erik Gordon, a professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, joined LX News to discuss how much power Congress really has to rein in these digital giants.

Four Big Tech CEOs are set to answer for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry

Lawmakers accuse tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of creating monopolies and harming public discourse in fiery anti-trust hearing.

During a House Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing Wednesday, Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., claimed Google’s algorithm for marking emails as spam was targeting “only” conservative Republican campaign emails. Steube said a supporter told him campaign emails were “suddenly” going to his spam folder. Google CEO Sundar Pichai denied that was the case, and Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., offered her own rebuke. “I’m...

House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D, R.I., questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about his company’s treatment of Yelp. “The choice Google gave Yelp was, ’Let us steal your content or effectively disappear from the web,’” said Cicilline. “Mr. Pichai, isn’t that anti-competitive?”

Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple will face Congress Wednesday after a more than year long anti-trust investigation. They’re facing accusations of unfairly favoring their own products in the digital marketplaces they operate from Congress.

Google announced on Monday that it is extending its work from home option through June 2021 due to the coronavirus.

Google said on Monday it will extend its coronavirus work from home order to through June 2021. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees. Google had originally...

Many companies have been tweeting support of Black Lives Matter, but one in four companies still has an all-white executive suite. Jamillah Bowman Williams, an associate professor at Georgetown Law, says companies need to do a “culture check” and talk directly to their black employees about racism in the workplace.

Google-owned YouTube is raising its price for its television subscription service to $64.99 a month, an increase of $15, the company said Tuesday. This new price takes effect June 30 for new members and the July 30 billing cycle for existing subscribers. The service, which allows customers to watch more than 80 TV channels over the internet, had 2 million…

The Justice Department is proposing that Congress roll back legal protections for online platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that generally could not be held legally responsible for what people post on the sites

A new report claims that Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to Chinese surveillance firms accused of human rights abuses and which are now on a U.S. blacklist. Top10VPN, a site that reviews virtual private network (VPN) services and researches topics on privacy, said in a report that it had identified U.S. technology giants...

Apple and Google have released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus

Google has developed a tool that it says can protect people from online scams, which have dramatically risen now that so much of life has moved into the virtual realm during the coronavirus pandemic.

Google is making its video conferencing tool, Meet, available for free to everyone, the Mountain View-based search giant announced Wednesday and detailed in a blog post.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai began discussing the company’s plans to allow workers back into the office, according to an email sent to employees Monday that was viewed CNBC. In the email, Pichai said that workers can expect a “staggered” and “incremental” return to the office, but nothing will happen until at least June 1. Alphabet, the parent company of Google,...

Google wants you to stay at home and doodle. On Monday, the company revealed it was launching a series of its classic popular interactive games from its archives.

Tech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to let you know through smartphones if you’ve been in close contact with someone who has coronavirus symptoms. The so-called “exposure notification” is set to push out through new software to IOS and Android phones, the companies said. The system sends out bluetooth codes to phones, which Apple and Google said...

Facebook, Google and other platforms are taking unprecedented steps to protect public health as potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation spreads around the world