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France's "Autorité de la concurrence" fines Google a record €500M ($593M) for breaching an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate "in good faith" licensing deals with publishers and news agencies for any re-use of copyrighted content. The fine amounts to about 1.1% of the company's yearly profits.
2021-07-13

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

A US$5 billion class action lawsuit is filed against Alphabet Inc. and Google, alleging the company violates users' right to privacy by tracking them in Chrome's incognito mode.
2020-06-2

Spotify announces it will suspend all political ads on its platform starting early 2020. It follows similar moves from Twitter and Google.
2019-12-27

Google artificial intelligence company DeepMind's AlphaGo program takes an unbeatable three to zero lead in a five-game Go match against grand master Lee Sedol.
2016-03-12

A U.S. appeals court has overturned a district court order that had banned the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus in the US, delivering a winning round for Google's Android against Apple Inc..
2012-10-11

Google reveals it has removed so-called 'terrorism videos' from the web at the request of governments, as well as blocking more than 100 YouTube videos which allegedly insult the Thai monarchy.
2012-06-17

Google is to give $100million to Eric Schmidt, an outgoing CEO.
2011-01-23

Google celebrates the 70th birthday of John Lennon with an animated Google Doodle.
2010-10-8

The Government of the People's Republic of China responds to Google's refusal to continue censorship of search results.
2010-01-13