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Microsoft has given the federal government a major boost, pledging to soften the blow if Google carries out a threat to leave the Australian market.

Apple and Google have one of Silicon Valley’s most famous rivalries, but behind the scenes they maintain a deal worth $8 billion to $12 billion a year, according to a Justice Department lawsuit. Here’s how they came to depend on each other.

Multiple Google services including YouTube and Gmail simultaneously crashed across the world overnight, sending the internet into a spin.

For almost an hour, users across the world reported that Google services were not working for them. The company's main product, Google Search, appeared to be unaffected. The problem now appears to have been fixed.

France will require online technology giants to pay a new "digital tax" on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said Wednesday, breaking a truce with Washington over the long-running tax fight that could prompt a round of punitive US tariffs on French goods.

Perhaps Google felt that the optics of obsoleting a service and cutting off millions of users from something useful and beloved were not worth risking — after doing exactly that with Reader (RIP).

The US government has filed charges against Google, accusing the company of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising.

Google has dozens of popular hardware and software products.

The four big tech giants announced blockbuster earnings on Thursday, just a day after testifying before the Congress on anticompetitive behaviour.

Google-owned YouTube is blaming its own algorithms for automatically deleting comments on videos that are critical of China.

Newer technology addresses challenges including busy phone lines and website crashes

The high-profile discrimination dispute between Google and one of its former software engineers has quietly come to an end.

How long will work-from-home last? Most Google and Facebook employees likely will not be going back to the office full time until 2021.

France is pressing Apple to let its forthcoming coronavirus contract-tracing app work in the background on iPhones without building in the privacy measures the US company wants.

Scammers are sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail users every day, according to Google.

Google and the EU battled in court Wednesday as the search engine giant tried to persuade judges that it was unfairly accused of ill-treating rivals of its Shopping service.

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, said the advertising model for YouTube is changing an growing. Direct response is becoming increasingly popular with consumers and advertisers, he said, allowing for improved monetization of the social video network.

In that sweeping overhaul of the company, Page became CEO of Alphabet, Brin became president and Eric Schmidt became executive chairman. Schmidt stepped down in January 2017. Now all three figures have taken their hands off the wheel in the daily management of Alphabet.

The US is preparing tariffs on $2.4bn (£1.85bn) worth of French exports as retaliation against the country's new digital services tax.

Google has been hit by a massive backlash after it was revealed that the tech giant had been collecting health data of millions of Americans without their