The European Publishers Council (EPC), an association that includes leading press publishers like The New York Times, Germany’s Axel Springer and the U.K.’s Guardian, has filed today, Feb. 11, a complaint with the European Commission against Google asking the regulator to “restore conditions of effective...
Earnings calls are an opportunity for executives and analysts to discuss everything from revenue drivers to tax rates, and increasingly, for Big Tech, the state of regulation and legislation aimed squarely at, well, Big Tech. As a rule, commentary on those subjects remains general commentary....
Google will be debuting new cloud features, a company blog says, which will help to support startups. That will consist of several steps, including aligning the cloud startup program with Google for Startups. This will make it so customers can enjoy a consistent experience across...
Google has launched “Offers,” a new tab in its Play Store to help users find deals in games and apps in a number of categories, including travel, shopping, entertainment and fitness. According to an announcement on the Google blog Thursday (Jan. 27), the rollout is...
Google has launched a Google Cloud digital assets team that will “support our customers’ needs in building, transacting, storing value, and deploying new products on blockchain-based platforms,” according to a Thursday (Jan. 27) blog post by Yolande Piazza, VP, Financial Services, Google Cloud. “Blockchain technology...
In the latest volley against Alphabet’s Google, a lawsuit has been filed alleging the Big Tech giant recorded customers’ locations after users tried to turn off the company’s tracking on their web browsers and smartphones. The complaint, filed Monday (Jan. 24) in the Superior Court...
It was only six months ago that Google began accepting ads for cryptocurrency wallets, loosening a 2-year-old crypto ban that had only allowed a few well-regulated exchanges onto its ad platform. Now, it’s building a new blockchain division and teaming up with crypto firms including...
Google is unveiling a new division focused on blockchain and related technologies under Engineering Vice President Shivakumar Venkataraman, who had been working on search advertising for more than a decade, according to a Bloomberg report Thursday (Jan. 20). Venkataraman is now running a unit focused...
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ruled that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates Europe’s privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a decision that could have a significant impact on U.S. cloud services. That’s according to the privacy advocacy group noyb, which...
