Google agrees to UK watchdog overseeing overhaul of cookie policy
The CMA will be directly involved in the design and development of the US firm’s Privacy Sandbox
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Sunak pushes for City exemption from new global tax regime
A spokesperson for the City said financial firms already contributed more than 10% of total government receipts from all taxes
Google to shake up ad business as it settles competition row with France
French regulators had a problem with Google Ad Manager and the AdX advertising exchange
Amazon, Apple, Google and other tech giant shares unmoved by proposed tax 'clampdown'
"The immediate market implications are likely to be minimal"
Google slapped with fine by Italian regulators over abuse of market position
The country's Antitrust Authority said the search engine had “unfairly limited the possibilities for end users" by blocking a third-party electric vehicle services app from its Android Auto service
How the ICP token is trying to rebuild the internet
The crypto token, created by the Swiss Dfinity Foundation, has emerged from relative obscurity to become the world's eighth most valuable digital currency with a market cap of just under £26bn
Big Tech results season rumbles on as Alphabet and Microsoft prepare to release numbers
Both companies are scheduled to report their numbers after Wall Street's close on Tuesday
US tech tax proposals get favourable response
Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon would be among 100 firms taxed locally with a 21% minimum
Google agrees to pay for News Corp journalism as Facebook blocks news in Australia over new law
Facebook is protesting an Australian law proposal requesting tech giants to pay for the content reposted from news organisations
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Why is it that Big Tech keeps on winning, while everyone else drifts, stagnates or craters?
For now, the brightest and best are in tech, but how long will that continue?
Google smashes through forecasts as YouTube booms during lockdowns
Google Cloud lost US$5.6bn during the year but earnings overall still rose by 20%
Google, Facebook and other tech giants should be broken up, DC thinktank urges
The American Economic Liberties Project has said the incoming Biden administration should implement a raft of new measures to counter what it said was “extreme" concentrations of economic power
Google investigated by UK competition watchdog over proposal to remove cookies
The Competition and Markets Authority will assess whether the proposal could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on Google’s ecosystem at the expense of its competitors
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US stocks close down sharply on first day of 2021 trading
The steep retreat came as investors fretted rising COVID-19 cases and eyed US Senate runoff elections in Georgia
Google and Facebook agree to support each other against antitrust lawsuit
A Wall Street Journal report has cited a recently filed lawsuit which states the two tech giants signed a deal in 2018 to cooperate in case an agreement over the use of advertising tools drew the ire of regulators
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Google, Facebook, Apple and the rest of Big Tech face regulatory pressure on both sides of the Atlantic
Regulators in the EU, the UK and the US are all gunning for the industry's big players, with a raft of new regulations and lawsuits aimed at curbing what some say is an effective monopoly on the sector
Google services hit by outage
The tech giant saw services including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive go offline briefly on Monday morning
Alphabet’s UK subsidiary DeepMind makes breakthrough protein shape discovery
The company has solved a 50-year-old challenge by finding out the shape of proteins using AI technology
Google and Facebook to face new regulatory agency in the UK from next year
The Digital Markets Unit will from April oversee a new pro-competition regulatory regime for online platforms
Google faces possible UK competition investigation after complaint
The CMA said it was taking the matter seriously would assess the issues carefully before deciding on whether to launch a formal investigation