MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (NBC) – Google has announced it is cutting 12,000 jobs from its workforce. The tech giant’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, sent an email to employees Friday confirming the move saying the layoff inside the U.S. would begin immediately. ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon and 39 state attorneys general announced a $391.5 million settlement with Google. The settlement outlined Google misleading its users into thinking they have turned off location tracking, but it still continued to collect their location information. ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC News) — Republicans escalated charges of anti-conservative bias levied against major tech companies Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee hearing that left CEOs Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter defending how ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three big tech company leaders are testifying virtually before a Senate committee Wednesday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are answering questions from the Senate Commerce committee. Topics expected to ...
NBC NEWS — Google is getting into mobile banking. The company is teaming up with eight U.S. based banks, including Citi and BBVA. According to “The Verge” customers will be able to access checking and savings accounts digitally through Google ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (NBC) – Google has been fined $1.7 billion by the European Union for blocking rival online search advertisers. The fine announced Wednesday is Google’s third huge EU antitrust penalty in two years. The European Commission said in ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CNN) – A widespread phishing scheme is targeting people across the web. The sophisticated attack looks like it is coming from a trusted source. It asks you to open a Google document. Google issued a statement, reading ...
San Francisco, Calif. – Google has introduced a new guideline targeting “upsetting” or “offensive” content. According to a report by USA Today, in an effort to deliver more factually accurate and less inflammatory search results, Google is using “quality raters” ...
San Francisco, Calif. — The popular mobile app “Pokémon Go” does a lot more than track your location. Users who access the game using their Google credentials are apparently handing over the ability to see and modify nearly everything in ...