Google has its fingers in every conceivable corner of industry, and then some. But investors can look past the mysteries and the spending splurges as long as the ad business keeps running.
Google parent Alphabet reported thinner profit margins as the Internet giant spent heavily to expand its cloud and YouTube businesses. The company’s shares slipped in late trading.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the soap opera that is the fight between Vodacom and its former employee, Nkosana Makate, over the “please call me” service.
Apple temporarily pulled important app-development tools from Google after the iPhone maker decided the Internet giant broke its rules, according to people familiar with the matter.
Google’s social network, Google+, will start to disappear from next week, as the company prepares for the site’s eventual closure in April.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Microsoft was the European Commission’s nemesis. Facebook should take some lessons for the software giant to overcome its regulatory challenges.
Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was blocked in China due to an accidental technical error rather than an attempt at censorship, according to people familiar with the matter.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, rendering yet another Western Internet service inaccessible to the world’s largest online population.
With the proliferation of smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the era of the paper map is over. That assumption is wrong.
Lawmakers in Europe are set to test how important Google thinks its news aggregation service really is.