
Google fined €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules
Caught playing monoploy
The European Commission has fined Google €2.42 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules, saying the search engine outfit has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service.

Google faces more than €1 billion fine
EU expected to announce record antitrust fine
Search outfit Google is facing a record-breaking fine from the EU over its alleged abuse of its market dominance.

Google hires Apple chip bloke
Should Qualcomm be worried?
Google has head hunted Apple’s chip man to come up with future versions of Google's Pixel phone.

Google "fake news" filter serves up fake penis pills
Looks like it needs a bit of work
Search engine Google’s attempts to filter out fake news have cocked-up badly as its health section has fast filled with adverts for pills designed to, er, stiffen your resolve.

Big five tech companies gutted in Black Friday
Lost $97.5 billion in market value
The big five technology firms - Apple , Google, Microsoft , Facebook and Amazon - lost more than $97.5 billion in market value, sending Wall Street into a bit of a panic.

Softbank finds two droids they are looking for on Google
Two companies added to AI plans
After getting its paws on ARM, Softbank is still growing and has written a cheque for two firms that build walking robots from Google's parent company, Alphabet.

Uber self-driven to fire Levandowski
Our tech is independent
Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer who has been accused by Google of stealing trade secrets about self-driving cars and giving it to Uber.

Google makes pitiful excuses for underpaying women
Handmaiden's tale
Search engine Google has come up with a truly pitiful reason for treating women employees like second class citizens – it can’t search the data.

Google is a daydream believer
More than 10 million daydreamers in 2017
Google is confident that more than 10 million smartphones will support its Daydream platform 2017 – well, someone needs to believe in it.

Daydream standalone VR by Qualcomm
Snapdragon 835 VR
Qualcomm and Google have announced the development of a Daydream standalone VR headset reference design powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 VR platform.