Google’s $2.1-billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale European Union antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Google and Facebook took particularly sharp jabs for alleged abuse of their market power from politicians on Wednesday in a much-anticipated hearing that put four of the US’s most prominent tech CEOs in the hot seat.
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Google and Samsung Electronics are negotiating a major deal that would give Google products more prominence on the South Korean company’s smartphones.
Chief executives from four of the biggest US technology companies will face a moment of reckoning on Wednesday in an extraordinary joint appearance before lawmakers.
Google will build a new subsea cable linking the US, the UK and Spain, further entrenching the technology giant’s role in global Internet infrastructure.
Google will keep its employees at home until at least next July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The biggest US technology companies have gone on a buying spree this year, waving off intense scrutiny from competition watchdogs and critics who say they’ve bolstered their power by snatching up nascent rivals.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says YouTube has for months allowed scammers to use his name and likeness as part of a phony bitcoin giveaway similar to one that was quickly extinguished by Twitter last week.
Microsoft president Brad Smith raised concerns to US lawmakers about what the company regards as Apple’s anticompetitive behavior around its app store, according to a person familiar with the matter.