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Google Slapped With HUGE Fine For ‘Stifling Competition’ In Online Advertisement
The European Union on Wednesday ordered Google to pay 1.49 billion euros ($1.69 billion) for stifling competition in the online … More
Google’s Toronto ‘Smart City’ Facing HUGE Resistance
The world’s most ambitious “smart city,” known as Quayside, in Toronto, has faced fierce public criticism since last fall, when … More
Top Facebook Executive Forced Out Of Job For Being Trump Supporter: Our Polarized Nation
Executives from Facebook, Twitter Inc. and Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., have had to answer questions from lawmakers about potential bias in their treatment of … More
Google Cuts Deal With Mastercard To Track Offline Sales
For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads … More
Google CEO Refuses To Testify At Senate Intelligence Hearing
Google’s Sundar Pichai is facing bipartisan criticism for refusing to testify at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing next week, but … More
Not Going As Planned: Residents In Arizona Reportedly ‘HATE’ Google Self-Driving Cars
Early rider use the Waymo driverless vehicles to get to school. Alphabet‘s self-driving cars are annoying their neighbors in Chandler, … More
Google’s Orwellian Toronto ‘Smart City’ Sparks Fears In Many
Illustration by Ben Fearnley It could be the coolest new neighborhood on the planet—or a peek into the Orwellian metropolis … More
Police Push For Civilian Drone Surveillance
At a recent apartment blaze in Oakland, California, a sheriff deputy directing firefighters with a drone-mounted video camera encountered a new … More
Facebook To Start Monitoring NON-Facebook Users
Facebook has set out to power all advertising across the Internet. To that end, the social network and online advertising … More