Google decides to end one of its own ventures into solar-powered drones and instead looks for new opportunities to explore other developing technologies.
DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence division has been allowed access to patients’ data of three London hospitals run by Royal Free Trust. The data in encrypted form will be used to develop an app capable of alerting doctors about someone’s possible kidney injury. However, patients’ rights groups have criticized the move since the data may be used for any other purposes.
The EU competition commission is going to frame charges following complaints from four Google rivals for prioritizing own apps in Androids. Google has denied the allegations since consumers are allowed to choose apps for their own devices. If Google is found guilty, it may have to count monetary penalty while reviewing its existing business policy.
The artificial intelligence in a self-driving car can be treated as a human driver from the legal perspecrive, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ruled in a decision that could set an important precedent for Google's own self-driving car.
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Monday whether to nip in the bud a class action lawsuit against online search service Spokeo Inc in a case closely watched by Silicon Valley companies that face similar claims.
Deutsche Telekom AG is expected to file an antitrust complaint with European competition authorities against Google Inc, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Apple Inc patents covering the "slide to unlock" feature on smartphones are invalid, Germany's highest appeals court ruled on Tuesday, reaffirming a 2013 decision rejecting the U.S. company's claims by a lower court.
Facebook Inc cannot challenge search warrants New York prosecutors used to get information from its site on hundreds of users suspected of Social Security fraud, a state appeals court said on Tuesday, in a decision likely making it harder for New Yorkers to keep their digital lives private.
Google Inc will have to defend claims that its Street View mapping software violates patents held by Vederi LLC after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the company's appeal.
The Obama administration on Tuesday sided against Google Inc and said the U.S. Supreme Court should not hear the company's appeal in a case against Oracle Corp with wide implications for the technology industry, according to a court filing.
Google Inc should not have to remove an anti-Islamic film from its YouTube website because a woman complained that she was duped into performing in the film that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a pedophile, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
The Australian government on Monday announced a world-leading crackdown on alleged tax avoidance by 30 multinational companies in a move that could force the likes of Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp to restructure their businesses to escape huge penalties.
EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe has supported arguments made by Google Inc in its defense in an antitrust case, saying the two companies are direct competitors in online shopping, the Financial Times reported.
A California jury on Friday cleared venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers of gender discrimination claims brought against it by a woman former partner in a trial that transfixed Silicon Valley.
Workers accusing Apple (AAPL.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and two other Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to hold down salaries will try on Monday to win approval of a $415 million settlement from a U.S. judge who rejected an earlier deal as too low.
Four Silicon Valley companies including Apple Inc and Google Inc have agreed to a new settlement that would resolve an antitrust class action lawsuit by tech workers, who accused the firms of conspiring to avoid poaching each other's employees.
A German regulator handed Google Inc a victory on Friday as it said it would not pursue a complaint brought against the internet search engine operator by a group of publishers for giving users access to their news articles.
According to a report by the Irish Times, Google Inc is mulling over placing an alert at the bottom of every search page to indicate that it has removed certain links to information as per user request in compliance to a controversial ruling by the European Court of Justice on May 13th.
Greece Culture Minister Panos Panagiotopoulos said that the country has allowed Google's Street View service to go live after the company has addressed earlier reservations about the ground-level map application, including individual privacy, The Associated Press reported.
GreatFire.org wrote in a blog post on Monday that several services of Google experienced disruption days before the 25th anniversary of the pro-democracy demonstrations held at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Bloomberg observed that Google Inc has already devised an online form to accept personal information deletion requests and formed an advisory committee to aid the company in complying to the European Court ruling on a citizen's right to be forgotten.
