Verizon Wireless officially rolls out the first security update of Android 6.0 Marshmallow to its versions of Google Nexus 7 and Nexus 6. The update helps optimize performance, resolve known bugs and provide latest security patches.
The writer's advocacy organization, Authors Guild, filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case against Google, following a lower court ruling that allowed Google to scan and post copyrighted books without author's permission.
The latest Android 6.0.1 update has reached several Nexus phones earlier this month and included several new features, and brought back the "Until Next Alarm" feature in the Do Not Disturb mode. The bug is not only limited to specific model or android versions. Several users have also figured out temporary solutions to the problem.
Google will be partnering with Ford in a joint venture to build self-driving vehicles. Google aims to decrease car accidents caused by human errors with driverless cars.
US tech companies is against UK's Investigatory Powers Bill that would require all tech companies to provide the government an access to personal encrypted date. Tim Cook expresses his concerns and how the bill will also affect the US.
A U.S. appeals court upheld the dismissal of federal claims and revived two California state law claims accusing Google of invading computer users' privacy by enabling the placement of "cookies" in their browsers to track their Internet use.
Google has hit back at EU antitrust regulators' warning of a possible hefty fine, saying this would be inappropriate because of the unusual nature of the case and its willingness to settle the case with concessions last year.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Google Inc (GOOGL.O) stifled competitors' access to its Android mobile-operating system, Bloomberg reported.
Chinese hackers have been accessing the private emails of top U.S. national security and trade officials since April 2010, according to an NBC News report on Monday, citing a U.S. intelligence official and top secret document.
The U.S. securities regulator has obtained a court order to freeze the assets of a Chinese online gaming CEO over what it described as "suspicious" trading activity ahead of a $10 billion deal by U.S.-listed Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd.
The founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR Inc, acquired by Facebook Inc for $2 billion, has been accused of taking confidential information he learned while working with another company and passing it off as his own, according to a lawsuit filed this week.
A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said.
The Obama administration has been locked in internal wrangling over what position to take in high profile litigation between two American technology giants, Google and Oracle, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. It faces an end-of-May deadline to decide whether to take sides in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will have wide implications for the technology industry.
The European Union's decision to take on Google last week stems from official complaints by 19 companies in Europe and the United States, including Microsoft and a number of small firms, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
The European Union will accuse Google on Wednesday of abusing its dominant position in Internet searches in Europe, a step that could see the Internet giant fined up to $6.6 billion, the Financial Times and Dow Jones reported on Tuesday.
Plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc (GOOGL.O) on Friday withdrew their case accusing the search engine company of harming smartphone buyers by forcing handset makers using Android operating system to make Google's own applications the default option.
Google Inc has combined its two European regional divisions as it seeks to meet the challenges of tougher regulation across the continent, a source close to the company said on Thursday.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the investment firm that has backed tech companies from Google to Amazon, fired a woman junior partner after she complained of gender discrimination, her lawyer said at trial on Tuesday.
