Sources: Reuters
Spotify announces it will suspend all political ads on its platform starting early 2020. It follows similar moves from Twitter and Google. 2019-12-27
Sixteen survivors use anti-terror legislation to sue Google, Twitter and Facebook, alleging the firms "provided support and resources" to the Islamic State. 2018-04-9
Chinese technology company Lenovo buys Motorola Mobility from Google for $3 billion to create its own mobile device unit. 2014-01-30
The Guardian obtains a copy of a document from April that reveals that the NSA is mining data using PRISM, spying on the e-mails and web activities of American citizens through direct access to Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk and AOL. The Guardian's report does not state from whom they obtained the document. 2013-06-6
Google expands its Google Maps map data coverage of North Korea for what has been blank on most of that country satellite images on its search engine. 2013-01-29
The European Union and United States approve Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Motorola. 2012-02-13
Reuters cites sources "familiar with the matter" as saying that Google will soon receive approval from both the European Union and the United States for its proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility. 2012-02-10
China says Google is "totally wrong" to stop censoring its search results. 2010-03-23
Google begins to phase out its support for Internet Explorer 6 after it was identified as a weak link in cyber attacks on the search engine. 2010-01-30