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District of Columbia District Judge Amit Mehta finds Google guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by illegally maintaining a monopoly over internet search.
2024-08-5

Epic Games sues both Apple Inc. and Google in an antitrust case after the removal of "Fortnite" from the Apple App Store and Google Play earlier in the day, alleging that the two companies hold an unfair monopoly over development for their respective ecosystems. The game was removed for implementing a feature allowing Epic to directly sell microtransactions while bypassing the 30% cut imposed on developers per transaction by both Apple and Google.
2020-08-13

Google receives a United States patent for an adhesive for its self-driving cars, so-called "human flypaper", designed to minimize injuries in a pedestrian accident by holding the person to the car rather than being thrown after impact.
2016-05-19

Britain's Information Commissioner's Office orders Google, Inc. to remove, from its search engines, links to news stories about Google's implementation of a "right to be forgotten" request, that include identifying information about a decade-old shoplifting conviction, which the Information Commission's Office considers as being no longer relevant. The order applies only in the United Kingdom.
2015-08-21

Chinese technology company Lenovo buys Motorola Mobility from Google for $3 billion to create its own mobile device unit.
2014-01-30

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 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

After six years, Google reaches a deal with a publishing group that opposed its scanning and publishing of books online.
2012-06-11

Google launches Google Music, an application that will enable users to upload their music libraries to company servers.
2011-05-10

Google begins to phase out its support for Internet Explorer 6 after it was identified as a weak link in cyber attacks on the search engine.
2010-01-30