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The self-driving car company says it needs to clamp down on violations in order to prevent another potential service shutdown.

Senate Democrats wrote a letter to YouTube’s CEO, citing concern about rampant election misinformation on the platform.

Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said Google is seeing employee productivity rise to pre-Covid levels again.

The coronavirus pandemic is having a big impact on all of our holiday traditions. Now Google is offering tools to help keep you and your loved ones safe this holiday season.

“We believe that our SEO results have been adversely affected by the launch of Google Travel and Google Vacation Rental Ads,” Airbnb wrote in its S1 IPO filing.

Republicans escalated charges of anti-conservative bias levied against major tech companies Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee hearing.

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an antitrust civil suit against tech giant Google.

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Google’s parent company has reached a $310 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of executives’ sexual misconduct. Alphabet Inc. said Friday that it will prohibit severance packages for anyone fired for misconduct or is the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation. A special team will investigate any allegations against executives and report to the...

The Justice Department is expected to file an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter tells The Associated Press.

Apple and Google have removed Fortnite from their app stores after the game implemented its own in-app payments.

Harvard student Uday Schultz, 19, is taking a summer cross-country road trip from the comfort of his Brooklyn home. The teen is using Google Street View to make the trip from Seattle to New York virtually. He’s using the trip to highlight how societal injustice is reflected in the geography of the country — and he’s documenting it all on...

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet were careful not to say too much as they were grilled by lawmakers on the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust last Wednesday. But internal documents released by the committee after the hearing say plenty. The release is a curated selection of the 1.3 million documents collected by the committee during its more than year-long investigation into competition concerns with the...

A former Google engineer who helped steer the company’s self-driving car project has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

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...