EU regulator finds Motorola violated FRAND patent terms
06 May 2013
The EC launched a formal probe into Motorola in April 2012 after Apple and Microsoft accused it of seeking injunctions to block the use of patents under FRAND, which Motorola was refusing to licence
Media buyers say they dealt with UK ad sales teams
06 May 2013
While Google claimed before a UK parliamentary panel that its staff in the country was not involved in sales, digital media buyers claim they had been dealing with the internet giant's sales teams in the country
Google’s chief Schmidt: YouTube has displaced TV
03 May 2013
Schmidt defends Google’s low tax payments
23 Apr 2013
German watchdog fines Google €145,000 for Street View privacy breach
23 Apr 2013
The fine slapped by the Hamburg data protection office comes after it was found that Google's Street View cars had taken city snapshots between 2008 – 2010 for its map service, and also illegally collected data from open Wi-Fi networks.
Google doodles 160th anniversary of India’s first passenger train
16 Apr 2013
Google today marked the 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train journey with a doodle on its India home page
Google bows to EU demands; will alter face, give clear links
13 Apr 2013
The internet giant has agreed to legally binding constraints on how it presents search results and to revamp its results page to include prominent links to rival search engines
Google unveils key to cyberlife after death
12 Apr 2013
Called the Inactive Account Manager, the service allows users of Google's Gmail, Drive, Google+, Picasa etc to decide what happens to their data after they die or become inactive
Anti-Google search rivals gang up, complain to EU regulator over Android
09 Apr 2013
A European search lobby which includes Nokia, Microsoft, Oracle among others has complained to the EU regulator against Google's Android strategy
Six European regulators to act over Google’s privacy policy
03 Apr 2013
Data protection authorities from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK will launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions against Google for not bringing its privacy policy in line with European regulations
Asus to offer 32GB Nexus 7 tablets in India soon
03 Apr 2013
Google announces shutdown in April Fool hoax
01 Apr 2013
Some absolutely 'over the top' pranks mark April Fool's Day efforts from tech innovators like Google, such as the "scentsational", Google Nose, a service that would allow Googlers to search for smells which would be transmitted through the screen.
Google to move into grocery delivery with Shopping Express
30 Mar 2013
The delivery service is part of Google's strategy to expand consumer reliance on the internet to enable it to expand into new avenues of online ads, its primary revenue source
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