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The percentage of the population that is fully vaccinated in South Korea surpasses 70%, allowing the government to ease their COVID-19-related restrictions in November.
2021-10-23

Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, announces that it has settled an antitrust suit with the French "Autorité de la concurrence" with a payment of €220m (US$270 million). The settlement amounts to less than 0.7% of Alphabet Inc.'s yearly earnings.
2021-06-7

Epic Games sues both Apple Inc. and Google in an antitrust case after the removal of "Fortnite" from the Apple App Store and Google Play earlier in the day, alleging that the two companies hold an unfair monopoly over development for their respective ecosystems. The game was removed for implementing a feature allowing Epic to directly sell microtransactions while bypassing the 30% cut imposed on developers per transaction by both Apple and Google.
2020-08-13

The European Commission imposes a record €2.42bn antitrust fine on internet giant Google for allegedly manipulating its search engine results.
2017-06-27

Google's DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence program defeats South Korean grand master Lee Se-dol in the ancient game of Go.
2016-03-9

Activists descend on the city of Paju to float 50,000 propaganda leaflets on balloons into North Korea, despite protests from local South Korean residents concerned at provoking a military response.
2012-10-29

Reuters reports on the basis of "people familiar with the matter" that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is close to bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its dominance of the search engine market.
2012-10-13

South Korean silicon chip maker Hynix Semiconductor claims that a US court has rejected an antitrust claim against it by Rambus Inc.
2012-02-16

The United States Federal Trade Commission considers taking antitrust action against Google.
2011-04-5

Microsoft lodged an antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission.
2011-04-1