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Google was fined 500 million euros ($593 million) in France after the search giant failed to follow an order to thrash out a fair deal with publishers to use their news content on its platform.

A group of state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit targeting Googles app store Wednesday, adding to the tech giants mounting regulatory woes, as government officials at both the federal and state level bring challenges to its business practices.

The European Union has launched an investigation to determine whether Google exerts too much control over the sprawling online marketing industry, in which advertisers can surveil, target and influence consumers through nearly any tech platform in which they engage.

Google will open its first retail store in New York City, highlighting the internet giants effort to promote its consumer hardware devices.

Google will let Android mobile software users opt out of being tracked by advertisers on their smartphone applications, following an earlier move by rival Apple Inc. to bolster privacy on iPhones.

Australia's recent attempt to make Google and Facebook pay for news content is one of many considered ways to strike a balance in wealth generation between the creative and the tech sectors. The problem statement for that policy was simple: news organisations create unique content; search and social media use the content to invite advertisers to their platforms. As a result, ads get siphoned off from TV and news media to social media -- for every AU$ 100, $81 goes to Google and Facebook.

Digital advertisers are pushing an alternative to web cookies that competes with a Google proposal, the latest industry effort to adjust to new curbs on how personal data is used online.

Many users of Android devices have recently been encountering app shutdowns, especially Gmail, and some have found that uninstalling the Android System WebView can stop these crashes.

Google Thailand and the Commerce Ministry today launched phase two of their “Saphan Digital” project to boost equal access to the digital economy and services for all Thais.

Technology giants Facebook, Amazon.com and Google and credit-card providers Visa and Mastercard are among those vying for unprecedented access to India's burgeoning digital retail payments market.

Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the web -- and made a mint from -- without paying a penny.

The mobile game market in South Korea logged sharp growth of over 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) last year amid the pandemic, data showed Thursday.