Sources: VentureBeat
The United States Department of Justice files an antitrust lawsuit against Google. 2020-10-20
Alphabet Inc., parent company of Google, becomes the fourth American company to hit a stock market capitalization of US$1 trillion. 2020-01-16
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce they are stepping down as CEO and president respectively from the company. Sundar Pichai will become the new CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. effective immediately. 2019-12-3
Google+ starts deleting consumer accounts from its social network Google++ due to low user engagement and the discovery of security vulnerabilities which potentially exposed user data to developers. 2019-04-2
Google+ announces that it is shutting down its Google++ network for consumers after seven years due to "very low usage" and a software error, first reported by "The Wall Street Journal", that potentially exposed the data of 500,000 users. Google++ will fully shut down in August 2019. 2018-10-8
The U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information. 2014-01-27
Google+ announces Google++ now has more than 500 million user accounts, 235 million of which actively use Google++ features. 2012-12-6
Google vice president Sundar Pichai officially claims that Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world. 2012-06-28
Google++, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google+, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
The protests continue in Egypt for a fifteenth day, hours after a detained Google executive is released with the crowds the biggest yet. 2011-02-8