
US states sue Google over app store
Tame Apple Press rejoices
Thirty-seven US state and district attorneys general sued Google alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones.

Apple loves Google really
Particularly on the cloud
Apple executives have taken swipes at Google in the past over its privacy practices. But the iPhone maker trusts Google enough so that over the past year it has dramatically increased the amount of Apple user data it stores in Google's cloud,

Former Googlers come up with a paid for search engine
No wait, they might have something
Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan helped turn Google into an ad giant but now they are offering a paid-for search engine.

Google delays third party cookie phase out
A year later than planned
Google is announcing today that it is delaying its plans to phase out third party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later than originally planned.

Google-paid politician angry that Microsoft is not a bad guy
Wants Vole dragged into antitrust hot water
Republican politician Jim Jordan, who takes home lots of campaign funds from Google is apparently furious that Microsoft does not appear to be involved in any antitrust hot water.

Google moves to AMD on cloud
Cloud’s not too sexy for Milan
Google will offer cloud computing services based on AMD's newest data centre chip, Milan in a move likely to intensify AMD's push to grab market share from rival Intel.

Google wants to increase Linux security
Moving to Rust
Google said it's funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system's core in Rust.

Google promises to remove third party cookies from Chrome
At least in the UK
The UK’s competition regulator said on Friday it had secured commitments from Google about the tech giant's proposal to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser.

Tech giants face tougher US laws
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google subject to five bills
House Democrats are set to introduce a package of five bills as soon as this week that would prohibit tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google from discriminating against rivals or buying potential competitors.

Google comes up with a new way of chip floorplanning
Fung Sui for chips
Google boffins have come up with a new way of designing the physical layout of a computer chip.