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The US government says Google should be forced to sell its popular Chrome web browser.

Will a US court break up Google in blockbuster case?

The US Justice Department says the best way to address Google’s monopoly in internet search is to break up the $2.8 trillion company.

  • David McCabe

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Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. A potential break-up of the company has been the most eye-catching – and controversial – aspect of the DoJ’s suggested remedies.

Google school ratings going, going, gone after trolls take over

As of next week, reviews and ratings for schools will disappear from the search giant as too many reviewers have been naughty in class.

  • Madeleine Heffernan and Kishor Napier-Raman
Signage outside Google’s new Bay View campus in Mountain View, California, US, on Monday, May 16, 2022. On Monday Google opened its newest campus near the San Francisco Bay shoreline a few miles east of its headquarters in Mountain View. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Google’s digital ad network branded an illegal monopoly by US judge

It comes on the heels of a separate decision that concluded Google’s namesake search engine has been illegally leveraging its dominance to stifle competition and innovation.

  • Michael Liedtke
Programs like Slack, Teams and Google Chat were designed to fix the issues with email. But with them has come a slew of other problems.

We tried to fix email. But what replaced it was just as bad

Programs like Slack, Teams and Google Chat were designed to fix the issues with email. But with them has come a slew of other problems.

  • Tim Duggan
Thumb’s up … to no good.

The digital age is a pain in the digit – and my texting thumb is over it

So you’ve never had this condition, “texting thumb”? Keep scrolling – and scrolling – and you’ll get the feel of it.

  • Cherie Gilmour
Pixel 9a

Google unveils its Pixel 9a as budget phone wars heat up

Apple released the iPhone 16e, its less expensive new smartphone, only a matter of weeks ago. It’s a different market now.

  • Tim Biggs
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Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport says the company will focus on its IPO plans.

‘Merciless’: Google’s biggest-ever deal to turn 41-year-old into a billionaire

Behind his unassuming demeanour and his T-shirt-khakis-and-sneakers wardrobe, Assaf Rappaport is a shrewd dealmaker.

  • Marissa Newman and Andrew Martin
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who last year won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in AI, has criticised his former employer Google.

‘Godfather of AI’ sounds alarm on Google weapons plan

Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton helped pioneer Google’s work in artificial intelligence. Now he has lashed out at the tech giant.

  • James Titcomb and Matthew Field
Donald Trump, during his first presidency, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 summit in 2019.

‘Very volatile’: Beijing retaliates with tariffs on US imports, Google probe

Within minutes of the new Trump-imposed tariffs hitting Chinese imports, Beijing fired back with a suite of tariffs and a probe into Google.

  • Lisa Visentin
Teal MPs Allegra Spender (left) and Monique Ryan.

Monique Ryan and Allegra Spender spend more than $150,000 on Google and Meta ads

In the last three months, the major parties, lobby groups and unions have also spent hundreds of thousands on social media in a bid to reach voters online.

  • Olivia Ireland

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