New Sony TVs join Google's own Chromecast in running the updated streaming platform.

Some third-party Chromium web browsers will lose Sync functionality and other functionality in March 2021 as Google will start to limit access to "private Chrome APIs" starting on March 15, 2021.

Google says burying links to some commercial news sites is an insignificant experiment, but experts argue the tech giant is throwing its weight around in retaliation to being asked to pay news organisations for original content.

Video-sharing site Rumble, citing a Wall Street Journal investigation, alleges in an antitrust suit that Google diverted traffic away from it toward YouTube.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation from the app favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Last June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law began an in-depth investigation into four major firms—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The subcommittee wanted to answer one key question: did Big Tech get big playing by the rules, or does it cheat to stay at the top? After 16 months of hearings, research, and analysis, the panel's findings are out... and the results look really bad for every company involved.

Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, and which pioneered the self-driving car business, says it's done with the term "self-driving."

Google employees take another step in their activism, Venmo adds a check-cashing feature and Slack has some issues. This is your Daily Crunch for January 4, 2021. More than 200 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet have announced that they have formed the Alphabet Workers Union.

The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all employees and contractors at Google’s parent company.

Google makes its money from being the world's middle man for online advertising. It's kind of a tech company too, but in a good-enough sort of way rather than the "hey, we invented the transistor" sort of way. It doesn't do anything nobody else can do, except leverage its search dominance into advertising dominance.

A detailed analysis of the yearly pirate site traffic trends shows that visitors from search engines dropped by roughly a third.

Google and Facebook pledged to help each other if they ever faced an antitrust investigation into their deal to work together in online advertising, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

90,000 Google employees have just received access to free weekly COVID tests. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news that every US Google employee (and its subsidiaries, including YouTube) will be eligible to sign up for a free at-home test. This differs from other companies, like Amazon, which are only offering tests to employees who still have to work in a physical location, like a retail location or warehouse.

Google employees won't be returning to the office until September. And when they do, they might not be going five days a week. In an email to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will test the idea of a flexible workweek where employees would work at least three days a week in the office for collaboration and at home for the rest of the time. The news was first reported by The New York Times.

Google has been hit with another lawsuit, making it the second major antitrust case against the tech giant within two months. “I’m proud to announce that the state of Texas is filing a multistate lawsuit against Google for anticompetitive conduct, exclusionary practices and deceptive misrepresentations,” Texas state attorney general Ken Paxton said in a video posted on Twitter.

Ten state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of illegally stifling competition in the advertising technology market.

Netflix might not be playing nicely with Google TV for some reason, but the company is pouring tons of resources into its Android app. The service got variable playback speeds and a screen lock feature this year, and now it looks like we're in for audio-only background playback. It could help you save some precious mobile data or leave your phone in your pocket while you're keeping up with your favorite series.

According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 11:56 GMT, and are affecting users worldwide

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Subscribe to YouTube TV? You may want to check your email! Google is sending out emails entitling subscribers of YouTube TV to a free Chromecast With Google TV. That’s a $50 value and a solid holiday gift.