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Google's Russian subsidiary announces its intention to file for bankruptcy after Russian authorities seize the company's bank account.
2022-05-18

Roskomnadzor, the state communications watchdog, states Google and Facebook published political advertising the day before and during the election, even though it requested them to ban such publication "in line with Russian law". The watchdog labels the tech giants' actions as "interference in Russia’s sovereign affairs".
2019-09-8

Warner Brothers is accused of self-censorship after it tagged its own websites for copyright infringement through the search engine Google.
2016-09-6

Bloomberg News reports Verizon Communications plans a bid for Yahoo Inc.’s Web business, including Yahoo Japan Corp., next week. Google, Time Inc., and private equity funds Bain and TPG are considering bidding for Yahoo’s core business. AT&T Inc., Comcast, and Microsoft Corp. reportedly aren't interested.
2016-04-7

The European Court of Justice decides an international agreement, generally known as a Safe Harbor rule, used by thousands of companies for moving people’s digital data between the European Union and the United States is invalid, effective immediately. The decision throws into doubt how global technology giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google can collect, manage, and analyze online information from their millions of users in the 28-member bloc. Decisions by this court, the highest legal authority in the EU, cannot be appealed.
2015-10-6

The U.S. Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence reach a preliminary joint agreement, likely resolving a lawsuit with the major American Internet provider companies (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn), about the information the companies can release to customers regarding requests by the intelligence agencies for information.
2014-01-27

For an undisclosed price, Google acquires the robot-making company Boston Dynamics which had previously been contracted by the U.S. military.
2013-12-16

Google calls one of its search engine websites "Google Palestine" instead of "Google Palestinian territories".
2013-05-3

Trading of Google stock on NASDAQ is temporarily suspended after it drops 9% following an inadvertent early release of its quarterly report showing a 20% decline in profits.
2012-10-18

Iran plans to block use of the Google search engine, as it prepares to switch its citizens to a domestic internet network.
2012-09-23