Sources: BBC
Google lays off hundreds of employees in its core engineering team, and others working on Google Assistant and Google's hardware products. 2024-01-11
Linux kernel developers, Apple, Google and Microsoft release emergency patches for their products to mitigate ZombieLoad. 2019-05-14
Google strikes a $1.1bn (£822m) deal with Taiwan's HTC to expand its smartphone business. 2017-09-21
Google is being sued over alleged inequality in the pay of male and female employees. 2017-09-14
The European Parliament passes a symbolic motion calling for the break-up of American tech giant Google. 2014-11-27
In Germany, a Hamburg court fines Google €145,000 for violating privacy laws with its Street View service. 2013-04-22
Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle an investigation into the collection of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks from 2007–2010 in the United States. Google company cars taking street-level photos for its online mapping service also had been vacuuming up personal data transmitted over wireless networks that weren't protected by passwords. 2013-03-9
Major websites, such as Google, Facebook, and others, participate in World IPv6 Day. 2011-06-8
Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices. 2010-10-22
Google admits it has been mistakenly collecting information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks for the past three years and grounds its Street View cars from collecting wi-fi information. 2010-05-15