LENOIR — Google is doubling down on its North Carolina footprint with plans to invest $1 billion over the next two years to expand its data center campus in Caldwell County — part of a […]
NEW YORK — Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a […]
After deflecting the U.S. Justice Department’s attack on its illegal monopoly in online search, Google is facing another attempt to dismantle its internet empire in a trial focused on its abusive tactics in digital advertising. […]
European Union regulators last Friday hit Google with a 2.95-billion-euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, but the bloc’s latest move to crack down on […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Epic Games, the Cary-based maker of “Fortnite” is asking a federal judge to award more than $205 million in legal fees after its landmark antitrust victory against Alphabet’s Google, marking other high-stakes […]
In Spain, “digital sovereignty” now means putting up barriers to restrict American tech companies while outsourcing the country’s networks to the Chinese Communist Party. Across the EU, governments claim to be building independent systems to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fate and fortunes of one of the world’s most powerful tech companies now sit in the hands of a U.S. judge wrestling with whether to impose far-reaching changes upon Google in […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Google went to appeals court Monday in an attempt to convince a three-judge panel to overturn a jury’s verdict declaring its app store for Android smartphones as an illegal monopoly and block […]
China shocked the West with its announcement of DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence network capable of competing with OpenAI, Meta and Google. The fact that China was able to develop DeepSeek without a heavy supply of […]
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge last Monday ordered Google to tear down the digital walls shielding its Android app store from competition as punishment for maintaining an illegal monopoly that helped expand the company’s […]
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