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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 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

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announces plans for a crowdfunded news website, "Wikitribune", that will publish stories by journalists, with contributions, including fact checking, by volunteers to, among other goals, counter the recent spread of so-called "fake news".
2017-04-25

A lawsuit brought against Google by Oracle Corporation accusing Google of using copyrighted code for the Android operating system is decided in Google's favor.
2016-05-26

Rolling Stone Magazine issues a partial retraction on Sabrina Erdely's "A Rape on Campus" story after additional fact checking identifies "discrepancies" in the account of the University of Virginia young woman identified as "Jackie" who alleged that seven men raped her as she lay on broken glass during a party at U.Va.'s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012.
2014-12-5

Internet analytics company ComScore says Google's Gmail has edged out Microsoft's Hotmail as the world's top e-mail service.
2012-11-1

China denies it is disrupting access to Google's email service in the country.
2011-03-22

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

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

Foreign journalists in China say their emails have been hacked, as Google pulls out of launching its Android mobile phones.
2010-01-19