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The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an antitrust civil suit against tech giant Google.

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Google’s parent company has reached a $310 million settlement in a shareholder lawsuit over its treatment of allegations of executives’ sexual misconduct. Alphabet Inc. said Friday that it will prohibit severance packages for anyone fired for misconduct or is the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation. A special team will investigate any allegations against executives and report to the...

The Justice Department is expected to file an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar with the matter tells The Associated Press.

The 2020 Doodle for Google art contest is going on right now and thousands of students are hoping their design will be featured. News4’s Melissa Mollet spoke with one of the local finalists, Oakton High School junior Sarah Naidich.

Apple and Google have removed Fortnite from their app stores after the game implemented its own in-app payments.

Harvard student Uday Schultz, 19, is taking a summer cross-country road trip from the comfort of his Brooklyn home. The teen is using Google Street View to make the trip from Seattle to New York virtually. He’s using the trip to highlight how societal injustice is reflected in the geography of the country — and he’s documenting it all on...

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google parent company Alphabet were careful not to say too much as they were grilled by lawmakers on the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust last Wednesday. But internal documents released by the committee after the hearing say plenty. The release is a curated selection of the 1.3 million documents collected by the committee during its more than year-long investigation into competition concerns with the...

A former Google engineer who helped steer the company’s self-driving car project has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Google is paying $450 million for a nearly 7% stake in longtime home and business security provider ADT Inc., a deal that will open new opportunities for one of the internet’s most powerful companies to extend the reach of its Nest cameras and voice-activated voice assistant.

The leaders of big tech companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were interrogated by Congress on Capitol Hill this week for misusing their market power. Erik Gordon, a professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, joined LX News to discuss how much power Congress really has to rein in these digital giants.

Congressional lawmakers finally got a chance Wednesday to grill the CEOs of Big Tech over their dominance and allegations of monopolistic practices that stifle competition

Lawmakers accuse tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of creating monopolies and harming public discourse in fiery anti-trust hearing.

During a House Antitrust Subcommittee Hearing Wednesday, Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., claimed Google’s algorithm for marking emails as spam was targeting “only” conservative Republican campaign emails. Steube said a supporter told him campaign emails were “suddenly” going to his spam folder. Google CEO Sundar Pichai denied that was the case, and Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., offered her own rebuke. “I’m...

House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D, R.I., questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about his company’s treatment of Yelp. “The choice Google gave Yelp was, ’Let us steal your content or effectively disappear from the web,’” said Cicilline. “Mr. Pichai, isn’t that anti-competitive?”

Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple will face Congress Wednesday after a more than year long anti-trust investigation. They’re facing accusations of unfairly favoring their own products in the digital marketplaces they operate from Congress.

Google announced on Monday that it is extending its work from home option through June 2021 due to the coronavirus.

Google said on Monday it will extend its coronavirus work from home order to through June 2021. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021 for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to employees. Google had originally...

Many companies have been tweeting support of Black Lives Matter, but one in four companies still has an all-white executive suite. Jamillah Bowman Williams, an associate professor at Georgetown Law, says companies need to do a “culture check” and talk directly to their black employees about racism in the workplace.