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A jury in California, United States, rules in favor of a woman who sued Google and Meta Platforms for her addictions to websites Instagram and YouTube as a child.
2026-03-25

Meta Platforms experiences a large-scale outage of most of its services, including Facebook and Instagram. Isolated outages are also reported by users of Google, X, and Microsoft Teams.
2024-03-5

Google announces that it will suspend Parler from their Play Store due to concerns of incitement of violence. Apple also threatens to follow suit after 24 hours following the storming of the Capitol.
2021-01-8

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

Google is being sued over alleged inequality in the pay of male and female employees.
2017-09-14

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalist Yuri Milner jointly establish the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences to reward excellence in life sciences with 11 individual prizes of $3 million.
2013-02-20

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

A study indicates that the Pac-Man game Google put on its home page Friday led to the loss of almost five million man-hours (or 550 years) of work time.
2010-05-25