Google is temporarily closing its China offices amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, a spokesperson said. The shutdowns, first reported by The Verge, will affect Google’s offices in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The company has also …
Google’s parent company Alphabet is now the fourth U.S. company to hit a market cap of $1 trillion. Apple was the first US company to hit a $1 trillion cap in 2018, followed later that year by Amazon (which has since dropped below …
Six new Android apps will let users set limits on how they use their smartphones
The U.S. Commerce Department said it will allow China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to purchase American-made goods in order to maintain existing networks and provide software updates to existing Huawei handsets. The world’s …
Trump is “very happy” with how negotiations with China are going
The Kremlin wants Russia's territorial possession of Crimea to be indicated correctly on various maps, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Of course, it does matter for the Kremlin [how Crimea …
Crimea is shown as a Russian region on Google Maps now, the Russian State Duma's information policy committee chair Leonid Levin said. "When accessing the maps from Russia, Crimea is shown as a Russian …
Google Doodle today celebrates the 111th birthday of Soviet physicist Lev Landau. Landau was born in Baku on January 22, 1908, and later went on the win the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1962, Lev Landau won …
Turkey’s competition authority said on Thursday it had fined Google some 93 million Turkish lira ($15 million) for violating competition laws with its mobile software sales, Reuters reported. In a statement, the competition …
US President Donald Trump has attacked the European Union’s decision to fine Google $5.1billion for “serious illegal behaviour”. "I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion …
The Crimean Bridge, the motorway section of which opened on May 15, finally appeared on Google Maps today. At 14:00 Moscow time, the bridge could be seen on Google Maps. However, the service cannot plot a route through the Crimean …
Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked a range of IP addresses belonging to Google since the company allows the Telegram messenger to use them to avoid being blocked in Russia, the organization said Sunday, Sputnik reports. …
Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor has requested App Store and Google Play remove the Telegram app, the watchdog’s press service said. "Roskomnadzor has demanded Apple and Google remove Telegram’s apps from …
Google Doodle today celebrates the 101th birthday of famous Baku woman Veronika Dudarova. Dudarova was a Soviet and later Russian conductor, the first woman to succeed as conductor of symphony orchestras in the …
Google has introduced four new measures to tackle the spread of terrorist material online, saying the threat poses a serious challenge and that more immediate action needs to be taken. Google will devote more engineering resources to …
Google Doodle commemorated the life and achievements of legendary architect Zaha Hadid on Wednesday. The visionary Iraqi-British architect was considered one of the greatest in the world during her life. Hadid's …
Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company's hardware efforts, two people with knowledge of the …
The adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the internet, German Klimenko, stated that Google and Facebook may be blocked in Russia, so sooner or later they have to start to comply with Russian law. However, he …
