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| Google faces record three billion euro EU antitrust fine: Telegraph | -9 | 2016-05-16 09:47:46+00 | REUTERS/Stephen LamLONDON Google (GOOGL.O) faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said. The biggest antitrust fine to date was a 1.1 billion-euro fine imposed on chip-maker Intel (INTC.O) in 2009. The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California November 13, 2015. The Commission can fine firms up to 10 percent of their annual sales, which in Google's case would be a maximum possible sanction of more than 6 billion euros. Google will also be banned from continuing to manipulate search results to favour itself and harm rivals, the newspaper said. | GOOGL | {"Reuters Editorial"} | 1249 |
| Fred Korematsu: Google Honors Activist Who Fought Internment | -14 | None | He and his family were then sent to the Central Utah War Relocation Center until the end of the war in 1945. With the help of the ACLU, Korematsu appealed in the landmark Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States, but in 1944 the court ruled against him. Civil rights activist Fred Korematsu , an Oakland native who fought the government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was honored by Google Doodle on Monday on what would have been his 98th birthday. Korematsu's birthday, Jan. 30, is now officially recognized as Fred Korematsu Day in Hawaii, Virginia, California and Florida. Korematsu, the son of Japanese immigrants, refused to go into the government's internment camps and was arrested and convicted of breaking military law. | GOOGL | {} | 1263 |
| Trump executive order prompts Google to recall staff | -17 | None | However, green cards are not specifically mentioned in the executive order, and so the status of green card holders remains unclear. Mr Trump said the measures detailed in his executive order would "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US". A petition organised by academics in the US opposed to the executive order includes the signatures of 11 Nobel laureates. The American Civil Liberties Union says it has filed a suit challenging the executive order. Four-month suspensionUnder Mr Trump's wide-ranging executive order, all refugee admissions have been suspended for four months. | GOOGL | {} | 1246 |
| Google Fined for Breaking Russian Antitrust Rules With Android | -27 | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 | They filed a third set of charges in July linked to Google search services offered to third-party websites, like newspapers and online retailers. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s top antitrust official, charged Google in April with unfairly using Android to promote its own services — like Google Maps and Google Search — over those of its rivals. Google denies breaking Russian competition rules. Russian authorities ruled last year that Google had abused its market position with Android, its mobile operating system, by favoring some of its digital services over those of rivals, including the Russian company Yandex. PhotoRussian antitrust officials fined Google $6.8 million on Thursday, a relatively small penalty that nevertheless represents the latest in a growing list of global regulatory problems for the American search giant. | GOOGL | {"Mark Scott"} | 1247 |
| Russia Fines Google $6.75 Million Over Android Mobile Dominance | -12 | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 | The Russian antitrust service is continuing talks with Google about an amicable settlement, according to the regulator. The fine was determined as a share of Google Play’s domestic sales, a Federal Anti-Monopoly Service representative said. Russia’s national regulator fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 438 million rubles ($6.75 million) for violating antitrust rules on tablets and mobile phones, after reviewing a complaint filed by local search engine Yandex NV last year. Yandex has seen its share on Android devices grow since June, the company said in a July 28 statement. Google received notification from FAS about the fine and will study the decision closely before determining further action, Google said in an e-mailed statement. | GOOGL | {"Ilya Khrennikov","More Stories Ilya Khrennikov"} | 1248 |
| Google Fined by French Privacy Regulator | -19 | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 | Google said that it would appeal the decision, adding that it had adopted Europe’s privacy ruling across its European operations. Despite this olive branch, Google was unable to convince French authorities that it was now in compliance with the country’s privacy rules. Google’s proposed solution, France’s privacy regulator said on Thursday, “does not give people effective protection of their right to be delisted.” The company was fined $112,000 on Thursday by France’s data protection watchdog for failing to comply with demands to extend a European privacy ruling across its global domains, including Google.com in the United States. The ruling allows anyone with connections to Europe to ask search engines like Google to remove links about themselves from online results. | GOOGL | {"Mark Scott"} | 1250 |
| France fines Google over 'right to be forgotten' | -12 | 2016-03-24 19:10:08+00 | But the CNIL rejected that approach, saying that a person's right to privacy could not depend on the "geographic origin of those viewing the search results. A spokesman for Google, now a unit of holding company Alphabet Inc, said the company had worked hard to implement the "right to be forgotten ruling thoughtfully and comprehensively in Europe. A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/IllustrationBRUSSELS The French data protection authority said it has fined Google (GOOGL.O) 100,000 euros ($111,720) for not scrubbing web search results widely enough in response to a European privacy ruling. The company did try to assuage the regulator's concerns in February by delisting search results across all its websites - including Google.com - when accessed from the country where the request came from. | GOOGL | {"Julia Fioretti"} | 1251 |
| Google Fined by French Privacy Agency for Not Removing Links | -9 | 2016-03-24 00:00:00 | While Google removed links from its French ".fr" domain, it didn’t take them off the ".com" domain visible to European web users. The agency, CNIL, ordered Google to remove links after it got several complaints from people who wanted the search engine to delete search results that pointed to personal information about them. Google was fined 100,000 euros ($112,000) by France’s data-protection authority for failing to remove “right-to-be-forgotten” requests from global search results. The ruling provoked a furor, with Alphabet Inc.’s Google creating a special panel to advise it on implementing the law. "Contrary to what Google asserts, delisting on all domains doesn’t limit the freedom of expression in that it doesn’t involve any removal of Internet content. | GOOGL | {"Aoife White","More Stories Aoife White"} | 1252 |
| Google's moonshots lost $1 billion last quarter | -8 | 2017-01-26 00:00:00 | Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30), Google's parent company, lost nearly $1.1 billion from its "other bets" division in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to earnings results on Thursday. Alphabet's overall sales for the quarter topped $26 billion, a gain of 22% from a year earlier. That brings the total loss for this division to about $3.6 billion in 2016, slightly more than the year before. Google is still struggling to bring the expenses for its moonshot projects back to earth. While the losses for its moonshot projects remained essentially unchanged, Alphabet did manage to grow revenue from this division substantially. | GOOGL | {"Seth Fiegerman"} | 1253 |
| Google battles the Department of Labor – HS Insider | -18 | None | On Jan. 4, The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Google for refusing to disclose company contact information. Google defended this belief reporting that the requests by the Department of Labor included thousands of employees’ private contact information, which Google claims to “safeguard rigorously.”Despite tensions being high, Google is handling the lawsuit well and is willing to work with the Department of Labor to find a compromise. Any form of discrimination based upon gender, religion, race or sexual orientation is thoroughly investigated by the Department of Labor. Google has repeatedly refused to disclose employee names, salary history, contact information, and job history. Google has gone as far as criticizing the Department of Labor, alleging that the requests were “overbroad in scope.”The board of directors of Google collectively feel strongly that it is the company’s responsibility to safeguard employees private contact information. | GOOGL | {"St Lucy's Laureate","Melody Shahsavarani"} | 1254 |
| Google antitrust concerns under Trump | -19 | 2017-01-30 00:00:00 | Bloom, a former general counsel to the senate antitrust committee, says the FTC does have a case against Google for an antitrust investigation. Shares of Alphabet underperformed the already sagging broader tech sector following a New York Times report that some advisers to the president are discussing subjecting Google to more antitrust scrutiny. In late 2012 FTC staff found Google was behaving like a monopolist but later dropped the case, he noted. "Antitrust is highly discretionary and the antitrust laws in the U.S. are rather vague and it really depends on who is doing the antitrust enforcement, and that is the big unknown as we go forward," said Bloom. "Some of the people who have been floated have been people who have expressed concerns about Google in the past and we'll have to see how that goes. | GOOGL | {"Harriet Taylor","Getty Images"} | 1258 |
| Trump administration will do 'evil things' | -15 | 2017-01-31 00:00:00 | Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google's parent company, told an audience of Google employees on Thursday that the Trump administration is "going to do these evil things as they've done in the immigration area and perhaps some others. "But meeting with Trump was a public statement," one Google employee told BuzzFeed News on Monday. He had close ties to the Obama administration and supported Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, facts not lost on Trump's advisers. "According to an earlier report by Vice about the same meeting, Schmidt told employees that he had tried to fight the immigration order. Referring to a "summit" meeting of tech leaders at Trump Tower, the employee continued, "Eric meeting privately with Trump after the summit was a public statement because that was reported on. | GOOGL | {"Marlene Awaad","Nitasha Tiku","William Alden","Bloomberg Getty Images"} | 1260 |
| Global Criticism of Trump Ban Builds From Germany to Google | -23 | 2017-01-29 00:00:00 | Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, likened the order to the country’s slow response to the Holocaust prior to U.S. entry into World War II. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said refugees deserve a safe haven regardless of their background or religion, while Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said the U.S. decision was unfair. Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith.” Merkel expressed her concerns about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, her chief spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement. Sudan also summoned the U.S. envoy to protest the ban, the state-run Sudan New Agency reported. Her earlier refusal to condemn the order unleashed a flood of criticism in the U.K., including from some of her own Conservative Party colleagues. | GOOGL | {"More Stories Shannon Pettypiece","Shannon Pettypiece","More Stories Steve Geimann","Steve Geimann"} | 1262 |
| Google Doodle Honors Fred Korematsu, Activist Who Fought Japanese Internment | -13 | 2017-01-30 11:38:43+00 | Fred Korematsu's 98th Birthday - #GoogleDoodle in United States. Monday’s Google Doodle celebrated the birthday of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who defied government orders to relocate to an internment camp during World War II. #FredKorematsu pic.twitter.com/CfZdeKVMRQ — Doodle Finder (@Doodle_Finder) January 30, 2017In 1942, Korematsu was one of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent who were forced to leave their homes and most of their worldly possessions under Executive Order No. Korematsu refused to comply with the order and fled from his home in San Leandro, California to Oakland. The effort was later considered a low point in U.S. history, a moment where fear overwhelmed tolerance. | GOOGL | {"Assignment Editor","Alana Horowitz Satlin","The Huffington Post"} | 1264 |
| Was It a 400-Pound, 14-Year-Old Hacker, or Russia? Here’s Some of the Evidence | -16 | 2017-01-06 00:00:00 | She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia, but I don’t — maybe it was. Source: googleusercontent.comThe hackers’ link is no longer active, but earlier last year it displayed the fake login page seen below. Alarmed, the team began to work with United States law enforcement agencies. In this case, the Bitly link served as a mask, hiding the real destination of the address from careful scrutiny, and potentially from Google’s automatic anti-phishing defenses. Instead, it’s a Bitly link. | GOOGL | {"Jeremy Ashkenas"} | 1265 |
| Google 'must review its search rankings because of rightwing manipulation' | -22 | 2016-12-05 00:00:00 | As a company, we strongly value a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures.”Danny Sullivan, the editor of Search Engine Land and one of the leading authorities on Google search, said Google faced a “very difficult, very challenging issue”. This means that sometimes, unpleasant portrayals of sensitive subject-matter online can affect what search results appear for a given query. It said: “Our search results are a reflection of the content across the web. Google refused to comment on the individual search results, but on Sunday, it moved to change some but not all of the autocomplete suggestions that the report highlighted. It can and does change search results when it suits them. | GOOGL | {"Carole Cadwalladr"} | 1268 |
| Mexico's lower house becomes 'Chamber of Rats' on Google Maps | -9 | 2017-01-11 01:39:21+00 | The lower house, also known as the Chamber of Deputies, became the "Chamber of Rats", using the Spanish word "rata," which is also slang for thief in Mexico. MEXICO CITY Pranksters changed the name of Mexico's lower house of Congress to the "Chamber of Rats" on Google Maps on Tuesday in the latest dig at the political class during a testing start to the year for the country's government. Mexican media reported at the weekend that the presidential residence appeared as the "Official Residence of Corruption" on Google Maps before Google Mexico removed it from the map and apologized for "inappropriate content" created by a user. A 2013 Transparency International study showed that 91 percent of respondents felt political parties were corrupt or extremely corrupt. "Our teams are working fast to resolve this incident," Google Mexico said in a statement, explaining that place names on the online mapping service came from third parties, public sources and contributions from users. | GOOGL | {"Reuters Editorial"} | 1269 |