They have killed local news

Newspapers all over the US have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, alleging the two firms monopolised the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news. 

Apparently minions don't like evil much

A group of former Google minions has sued the company for breaching their employment contracts by not honouring its famous motto "don't be evil".

To make the British happy

Google has pledged more restrictions on its use of data from its Chrome browser to address concerns raised by Britain's competition regulator about its plan to ban third-party cookies that advertisers use to track consumers.

$11.23 million each for being too aggressive with customer data 

Italy's antitrust regulator has fined Google and Apple $11.23 million each for "aggressive practices" linked to the commercial use of user data.

But don’t worry Google saves fanboys

Google researchers caught hackers targeting users in Hong Kong exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple's Mac operating system.

Courting the US military again

Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon programme that used artificial intelligence, the company is aggressively pursuing a major contract to provide its technology to the military.

Will no one think of the small businesses?

It seems that Big Tech has suddenly become rather protective of small businesses with Google claiming that antitrust bills before different governments could harm SMES.

Ad sales on the rise

Google owner Alphabet did better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted due to higher than expected third-quarter ad sales.

Also set to rain on their clouds

Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook  should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.

$599 and $899 for Google's Tensor SoC phone

Google has now officially announced its new Pixel phones, the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 6 Pro, both featuring the 5nm Tensor custom SoC focused on AI and ML, new camera systems, and more, all starting at $599 and $899, respectively.