Sources: CNN
Chile signs an agreement with Google to build the first submarine fiber-optic cable connecting between South America and Australia. Google invested at least $300 million while the Chilean government will invest $25 million. 2025-06-4
New Mexican Attorney General Hector Balderas sues Google for allegedly collecting private information of the state's schoolchildren without parental consent. 2020-02-20
Warner Brothers is accused of self-censorship after it tagged its own websites for copyright infringement through the search engine Google. 2016-09-6
For an undisclosed price, Google acquires the robot-making company Boston Dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military. 2013-12-16
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 unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone. 2011-10-19
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
New cables allege that the Communist Party of China was paranoid about the Internet with Li Changchun, the party's propaganda chief, stepping up pressure on Google after finding material critical of him in a search. The same source also claims that CCP is active in hacking against its rivals, especially the United States. 2010-12-4
Google stops censoring its search results in China, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. 2010-03-22