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Data reveals many more traveling to work than during first lockdown

January 23, 2021

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Internet signal-carrying weather balloon firm Loon to shut down

January 22, 2021

The company said it would have to prevent Australians from accessing its search engine (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Google threatens to pull search engine in Australia in row over Government plans

January 22, 2021

Epic has asked the tribunal to declare the removal of Fortnite (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Fortnite developer brings legal action against Apple and Google to UK

January 21, 2021

Google did not spell out how much money would be paid to the group’s members (Jonathan Brady/PA)

Google and French publishers sign copyright news payment deal

January 21, 2021

Firm’s global head of public policy strategy said Twitter should have taken more aggressive enforcement action earlier (Yui Mok/PA)

We didn’t get everything right, Twitter chief tells MPs following Capitol riots

January 20, 2021

Google has completed a £1.5 billion takeover of Fitbit (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Google assures takeover of Fitbit ‘not about data’ as £1.5bn deal finalised

January 14, 2021

The NHS track and trace app on a mobile phone (PA)

Contact tracing app bug fixed, Google says

January 13, 2021

Google said the issue appears to be delaying the app’s ability to carry out regular exposure checks – a key part of contact tracing (Steve Parsons/PA)

NHS Covid-19 app developers working on fix for Android ‘loading’ bug

January 13, 2021

US President Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (Niall Carson/PA)

Donald Trump was the social media president until he was banned

January 9, 2021

The Competition and Markets Authority will assess the impact of Google proposals to stop supporting third-party cookies in Chrome (Yui Mok/PA)

Watchdog investigates proposed Chrome changes over ‘Google walled garden’ fears

January 8, 2021

Selena Gomez has accused technology giants of allowing their platforms to be used to spread hate and partly blamed them for the shocking violence in Washington DC (PA)

Selena Gomez accuses tech giants of ‘failing the American people’ over DC unrest

January 7, 2021

Fitbit Charge 3 fitness trackers (Richard Drew/AP)

Australian regulator delays decision on Google-Fitbit merger

December 22, 2020

A Google office (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

EU clears Google’s purchase of Fitbit, with conditions over data

December 17, 2020

Lord Evans of Weardale, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (David Mirzoeff/PA)

Social media giants urged to make it easier to report abuse to police

December 17, 2020

Facebook says there will be ‘no change’ to the privacy controls or the services offered to people in the UK (Niall Carson/PA)

Facebook’s UK users to be overseen by firm’s US HQ after Brexit transition

December 16, 2020

Some of Google’s affected services are among the most widely used in the world (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Google outage due to internal technical fault, company says

December 14, 2020

Google said it has restored service for the ‘vast majority of users’ after a major outage took the firm’s key apps offline (Yui Mok/PA)

Google services return online after major global outage

December 14, 2020

Users have been unable to access many of the firm’s services including Gmail (PA)

Google outage leaves users unable to access YouTube and Gmail

December 14, 2020

The competition watchdog has called on the Government to introduce a legally binding code of conduct for tech giants such as Google and Facebook to follow in an effort to rein in their market dominance (Andrew Matthews/PA)

Proposed new pro-competition rules seek to rein in tech giants

December 8, 2020