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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 agrees to pay a record US$170 million penalty to settle accusations that YouTube broke the law when it knowingly tracked and sold advertisements to children, the Federal Trade Commission says.
2019-09-4

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

The European Commission fines Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust regulations, claiming that Google abused the dominant position of Android to promote their search product. Google announces it will appeal the ruling.
2018-07-18

In a five-day national dragnet last week, Operation Cross Check, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rounds up 2,059 people who had been convicted of crimes and had been living in the country illegally. Most were not violent criminals (none were implicated in terrorism; almost all the 912 misdemeanors were for driving under the influence, DWI; 476 of the felons were charged with an immigration violation, though some were convicted of manslaughter, robbery, rape, and child pornography).
2015-03-9

The smartphone wars are re-ignited, as Rockstar Consortium, a company owned by companies including Apple and Microsoft, starts wide-ranging legal action against Google, Samsung, and other makers of Android phones.
2013-11-1

Google agrees to pay $7 millions to settle a privacy lawsuit over the handling of wireless data.
2013-03-12

Google vice president Sundar Pichai officially claims that Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world.
2012-06-28

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are published online in a joint project between Israel's national museum and Google.
2011-09-26

The U.S.internet search company Google agrees to submit to official Chinese censorship of "law-breaking content".
2010-07-12