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The United States implements a 10% across-the-board tariff on Chinese products and eliminates the "de minimis" exemption for exports from China. In response, China imposes retaliatory tariffs on energy products, agricultural equipment, and automobiles from the United States, effective February 10, and export controls on critical minerals. It also adds U.S. companies PVH Corp. and Illumina Inc to its unreliable entities list and launches a probe into U.S. technology company Google for alleged anti-trust violations.
2025-02-4

The European Commission rejects an appeal from Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, regarding a €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion) fine charged against the corporation in 2017 for unfairly directing users to its own shopping services.
2021-11-10

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

Linux kernel developers, Apple, Google and Microsoft release emergency patches for their products to mitigate ZombieLoad.
2019-05-14

A large French bank, Groupe BPCE launches a service that allows its customers to use the social network Twitter to send one another money.
2014-10-14

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

Google is to give $100million to Eric Schmidt, an outgoing CEO.
2011-01-23

The Chinese military and several schools deny involvement in cyber attacks on Google, following a "New York Times" report cited investigators linking Lanxiang Vocational School and Shanghai Jiaotong University to the attacks.
2010-02-20