Google launches `Google News Showcase’; to pay publishers for content
01 Oct 2020
Australia wants to force Google and Facebook to share advertising revenue with local media groups while European groups see Google’s News Showcase as another product to dictate terms and conditions
Indian tech firms join to fight Google’s app store monopoly: report
01 Oct 2020
Google has demanded that starting next year developers with their app on its Play Store must give the company 30 per cent share of all app-related payments
Google to end its free Wi-Fi programme
18 Feb 2020
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down; Pichai to head Google and Alphabet
04 Dec 2019
“There is no one that we have relied on more since Alphabet was founded, and no better person to lead Google and Alphabet into the future,” Larry Page and Sergey Brin stated in a letter they wrote about the transition at blog.google
Google pushes online gaming industry with its Stadia
26 Mar 2019
Instead of a console, Google’s Stadia would use a cloud platform to do all the processing online, with the devices requiring only a fast internet connection
European Commission hits Google with $1.7 bn antitrust fine
20 Mar 2019
The latest fine on Google, for allegedly forcing customers of its AdSense business to sign contracts barring rival search engines, takes total EU fine on Google over the last three years to $9.3 billion
