Google fined A$55m in Australia over anti-competitive telco deals
Google has agreed to pay an A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had…
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Egypt partners with Google to promote ‘unmatched diversity’ tourism campaign
Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Sherif Fathy, met with Hisham El Nazer, Country Director for Google in…
Amazon, Google back pledge to triple nuclear energy by 2050
Amazon, Google, and other major companies signed a pledge on Wednesday to support the goal of tripling the world’s…
Saudi c. bank to launch Google Pay this year
Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) announced on Thursday that it had signed an agreement with Google to launch Google Pay in…
EU investigations into tech giants under review
The European Commission is reassessing its investigations into major tech companies, including Apple, Meta, and…
Australia to charge large tech firms for news content
The Australian government has unveiled new regulations designed to compel tech giants like Meta and Google to pay…
EU expands scrutiny of Microsoft’s $13b OpenAI investment
The European Union's (EU) antitrust regulators are intensifying scrutiny of Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in…
Russia fines Google for failing to remove banned content
A Russian district court fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($38,057) on Monday for not removing…
Nigerian Moniepoint raises $110m to expand African FinTech solutions
Nigeria-based fintech Moniepoint has secured $110 million in new funding from investors, including Google, to…
Asian stocks mixed ahead of tech earnings reports
Asian stocks had a mixed performance on Tuesday due to volatile trading as investors were preparing for three days…
TSMC’s quarterly revenue soars 39%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's leading chipmaker, reported a 39 per cent revenue…
Amazon leads companies in $180m deal to conserve rainforest
Amazon and other companies are buying carbon offset credits to support the conservation of the Amazon rainforest in…
Google wins EU legal battle over €1.5b fine
Google won a significant legal battle against the European Union (EU), overturning a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion)…
Google loses appeal against €2.42b EU antitrust fine
Alphabet's Google has lost its appeal against a 2.42 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine imposed by EU antitrust…
Google’s ad tech practices under antitrust scrutiny
Google is facing a new antitrust lawsuit over its advertising technology, with the trial starting Monday in…
Israeli cybersecurity Wiz cancels $23b acquisition by Google
Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz has terminated negotiations with Alphabet, Google's parent company, on a…
Google invests in Taiwan’s NGP for renewable energy push
Google announced a strategic investment in Taiwan's New Green Power (NGP), a company owned by BlackRock's climate…
Apple, 1st brand to break $1t threshold
Apple has become the first brand to surpass $1 trillion in brand value, marking a 15 per cent increase from the…
Turkey fines Google $14.85m over hotel searches
The Turkish competition authority imposed on Monday a fine of approximately 482 million lira ($14.85 million) on…
Google to invest RM9.4b in Malaysia’s 1st data centre
Google is investing RM9.4 billion in Malaysia for its first data centre and Google Cloud region, a major step in…
Google plans major smartphone production in India
Google intends to invest significant sums in India's Tamil Nadu state to establish smartphone manufacturing…
Google to invest $1.1b in Finnish data centre
Google announced on Monday a further investment of 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to expand its data centre campus…
Apple faces pressure as iPhone sales slide
Apple is set to report its quarterly earnings on Thursday as it battles sagging iPhone sales, a resurgent China…
Google terminates 28 employees over Israel cloud contract
Google announced the termination of 28 employees on Thursday, following protests against the company's cloud…
Google Malaysia apologises for misquoting currency
Google Malaysia apologised for misquoting the ringgit's exchange rate against the dollar after the central bank had…
Google sets up cybersecurity hub in Tokyo
Google has established a cybersecurity hub in Tokyo, its first in the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reported on…
Google plans to manufacturing Pixel phones in India
Google plans to start producing its Pixel smartphones in India by the next quarter, CNBC reported on Thursday,…
Google pledges €25 mln to enhance AI skills in Europe
Google has pledged 25 million euros ($26.98 million) to support AI education in Europe, with a particular focus on…
Snap loses ground to bigger competitors
Snap's stock fell 31 per cent on Wednesday as its revenue for the fourth quarter fell short of Wall Street's…
Google inks offshore wind energy deal
Technology giant Google announced on Thursday that it has signed its largest ever power purchase agreement (PPA)…
Google may keep cutting jobs in ’24 – CEO
Google CEO, Sundar Pichai warned employees that more layoffs are likely at the Alphabet-owned company this year.
Google lays off hundreds of employees to cut costs
Alphabet’s Google announced it would lay off hundreds of employees across various teams as the company continues to…
Meta, Google, Tiktok debts removed from Russian database
Alphabet’s Google and YouTube, along with Meta, TikTok, and Telegram are no longer registered as debtors in the…
Moscow court fines Google $164K for breaking data storage rules
Moscow court fined Google 15 million rubles ($164,200) on Tuesday for not keeping the personal data of its Russian…
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave resigns after posting an anti-Israel post on X
Tech conference Web Summit CEO, Paddy Cosgrave has resigned a week after his pro-Palestine post on X, formerly…
Microsoft CEO accuses Google of dominating online searching
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has accused Google of dominating market share in online searching through locking up…
Google’s Bard expands to Europe, Brazil
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Bard, in Europe and…
Elon Musk launches xAI, rivaling OpenAI
Elon Musk launched his artificial intelligence startup, xAI on Wednesday, with a team of engineers from other US…
Google launches new AI advertiser features
Google is launching two new artificial intelligence-powered features for advertisers to automatically find the best…
Jack Dorsey accuses India of Twitter shutdown threats
Jack Dorsey, Twitter's former CEO, has accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Monday of…