Sources: CNN
France's "Autorité de la concurrence" fines Google a record €500M ($593M) for breaching an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate "in good faith" licensing deals with publishers and news agencies for any re-use of copyrighted content. The fine amounts to about 1.1% of the company's yearly profits. 2021-07-13
New Mexican Attorney General Hector Balderas sues Google for allegedly collecting private information of the state's schoolchildren without parental consent. 2020-02-20
The organizers of the Google Lunar X Prize announce that the $20 million grand prize for a commercial lunar lander will expire on 31 March 2018 without a winner because none of its five finalist teams would be able to launch a mission before the deadline. 2018-01-23
Google announces a new wireless network in the United States called Project Fi with a pay as you go data rate. 2015-04-22
Iran plans to block use of the Google search engine, as it prepares to switch its citizens to a domestic internet network. 2012-09-23
Google+, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
Google agrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network. 2011-03-31
US comedian Gilbert Gottfried is fired from doing voiceover work as the AFLAC duck for making a number of tasteless posts on the Japanese earthquake on the Twitter social network. 2011-03-14
The German government meets to discuss Google's Street View mapping service. 2010-09-20
A policy proposal by Google and Verizon regarding the way internet service is regulated comes under criticism from groups promoting net neutrality. 2010-08-10