Sources: VentureBeat
Apple and Google remove apps by the Chinese company ByteDance, including TikTok, Lemon8, and CapCut, from their app stores in the United States to comply with the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. 2025-01-18
The European Commission orders Google to sell off portions of its advertising services in order to comply with anti-competitive practices and threatens to fine the company up to 10% of its global turnover. Google, which relies on advertising services for up to 79% of its revenue, says that it will appeal the order. 2023-06-14
Apple Inc. and Google remove TikTok from their app stores in India after a high court in Madras ruled the app could expose children to sexual content and cyberbullying. 2019-04-16
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
In the United States, the NASDAQ and S&P 500 end at record highs spurred by strong results by tech giants Google, Amazon and Microsoft. 2015-04-24
Google expands its Google Maps map data coverage of North Korea for what has been blank on most of that country satellite images on its search engine. 2013-01-29
Google+ announces Google++ now has more than 500 million user accounts, 235 million of which actively use Google++ features. 2012-12-6
Google++, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google+, is released to the general public. 2011-09-21
China renews the internet content provider license for Google allowing it to continue operating in the country. 2010-07-9