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Google self-driving car project names general counsel as scrutiny rises

Google self-driving car project names general counsel as scrutiny rises

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Google notifies users of 4,000 state-sponsored cyber attacks per month: executive

A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016.

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Google to start asking your permission to track you for better ads

Notifications to begin in the coming weeks in Gmail or Chrome asking users if they want their ads personalised

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Google's My Activity reveals just how much it knows about you

Search company launches new opt-in ad service for non-Google sites and tools that show how it tracks your internet activity

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EU regulators readying third Google antitrust charge

Alphabet's Google may face a third EU antitrust charge as soon as next month, this time focusing on its revenue mainstay AdWords ad placement service, three people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

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British grandma delights Google with polite search request

​Grandmother May Ashworth recently caught the attention of Google and the internet with her polite googling.

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Will Google Or Facebook buy Twitter?

​The fate of the social-media company is becoming much clearer.

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Don't hand our TVs over to Google

​Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission resolved to “unlock the box,” requiring cable companies to give video streaming, programming and encryption data to companies like Google that make stand-alone alternatives to the traditional cable set-top box.

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French finance minister rules out Google tax deal, more firms could be targeted

France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids

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Google aims to kill passwords by the end of this year

Android users will be able to log in to services using a combination of their face, typing patterns and how they move

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Google faces record 3 billion euro EU antitrust fine: Telegraph

Google faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said.

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Business Insider Google’s 'Chirp' set to take on Amazon's Echo

Google is reportedly working on a competitor to Amazon's sleeper hit, the smart speaker Echo, and the project is adorably dubbed Chirp internally.

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Google tests black links in searches

Why would Google want to strip out its famous blue? Perhaps the money’s too good to refuse

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Google also has been ordered to help unlock phones, records show

Google has been repeatedly ordered to help federal agents open cellphones, according to court records in seven states that show Apple isn’t the only company facing government demands at the center of a fierce debate over privacy and security.