Sources: CNN
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
Google completes its reorganization into Alphabet Inc., becoming its leading subsidiary. Sundar Pichai becomes CEO of Google. 2015-10-2
Google creates a new holding company called Alphabet Inc. containing Google Inc. and Calico containing Google Ventures, Google Capital, Google X, and other subsidiaries. 2015-08-10
The U.S. International Trade Commission sides with Apple against a claim by Google that Apple's popular iPhones violate a Google patent. 2013-04-22
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
The Organization of American States urges Nicaragua and Costa Rica to withdraw their security forces from an island in the San Juan river. Google is blamed for the dispute and revises its maps. 2010-11-14
Google stops censoring its search results in China, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. 2010-03-22
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
Foreign journalists in China say their emails have been hacked, as Google pulls out of launching its Android mobile phones. 2010-01-19