Tag: Google

Google cuts RT and Sputnik apps from Play Store

Heather Hamilton · March 2, 2022 4:39 pm

RT, which airs in the U.S., is widely believed to be a propaganda arm of the Kremlin. Sputnik is largely based online and is said to serve the same function.

YouTube blocks Russian news channels RT and Sputnik over invasion

Nihal Krishan · March 1, 2022 5:41 pm

Big Tech suppresses Russian media in show of force

Nihal Krishan · February 28, 2022 8:25 pm

Google Maps temporarily disables live traffic features for safety in Ukraine

Heather Hamilton · February 28, 2022 2:20 pm

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, file photo, people attend a workshop, "New York Get Your Business Online," at Google offices in New York. Google Inc. reports quarterly earnings on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Google rolls back COVID-19 restrictions for US employees

Jenny Goldsberry · February 25, 2022 5:30 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2012 photo, Chinese people line up to enter a newly-opened Apple Store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing. A Chinese court has ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to eight Chinese writers and two companies who say unlicensed copies of their work were distributed through Apple's online store. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 that Apple violated the writers' copyrights by allowing applications containing their work to be distributed through its App Store, according to an official who answered the phone at the court and said he was the judge in the case. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Beltway Confidential

To whom are American corporations loyal?

Conn Carroll · February 17, 2022 8:25 pm

Bill targeting Apple and Google app stores moves out of Senate committee

Bill targeting Apple and Google app stores moves out of Senate committee

Jessica Melugin · February 10, 2022 11:00 pm

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

Bill cracking down on Google and Apple app stores advances in Senate

Nihal Krishan · February 3, 2022 6:06 pm

Ending Big Tech’s free ride

Ending Big Tech’s free ride

Conn Carroll · February 2, 2022 12:00 am

Bill targeting Big Tech advanced out of a Senate committee on bipartisan vote

Bill targeting Big Tech advanced out of a Senate committee on bipartisan vote

Jessica Melugin · January 27, 2022 11:00 pm

Early Tuesday morning, Internet shoppers started noticing and documenting digital gaffes after it appeared Google had started filtering shopping searches for the word "gun." (iStock)

Google fails to show results for ‘made in America’ shopping searches

Nihal Krishan · January 26, 2022 2:06 am

Washington Secrets

Google thwarted in Arizona attorney general’s suit to block user tracking

Paul Bedard · January 25, 2022 7:37 pm