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Google parent company Alphabet Inc advanced nearer to joining peers Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp in the elite $2 trillion market valuation club on Wednesday as the search giant's shares surged more than 8% following a blowout quarterly report.

Tech stocks remain in focus for investors after Google's strong quarter and ahead of Facebook results due after the bell.

Google's massive stock split may attract a new crop of investors as shares become more affordable.

A group of conservative policy organizations sent a letter to U.S. senators Monday asking them to keep the app market open and free from anti-competitive practices.

Google will invest up to $1 billion in partnership with India’s Airtel to provide affordable access to smartphones to over a billion Indians and speed up use of cloud-based computing for business, the two companies said on Friday.

An Arizona judge on Tuesday refused to toss out the state's lawsuit against Google, which alleges that the company uses unfair practices to obtain users' location data.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai are both reaching out to senators personally in an effort to stop a bill aimed at reining in Big Tech

Google is facing a lawsuit headache after Utah also filed a lawsuit claiming the tech giant had engaged in antitrust practices with Facebook.

YouTube has deleted the account of a nonprofit counseling organization for “Hate Speech” days after a left-leaning group published a report about “conversion therapy” online, attacking the organization.

The top executives at Google and Facebook are being accused of conspiring together by approving a secret deal that gave Facebook an advantage in online advertising auctions.

Google is doling out $1 billion to purchase London's Central Saint Giles development, where it is currently a tenant, as the tech giant expresses optimism for a return to the office for its employees.

The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol has issued four subpoenas to social media companies, demanding documents “relating to the spread of misinformation, efforts to overturn the 2020 election, domestic violent extremism, and foreign influence in the 2020 election.”

The White House on Thursday is hosting leading tech companies, along with a number of relevant government agencies, to discuss ways to improve security for open source software libraries, with senior administration officials calling it a "key national security concern."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have written a letter to Google telling the tech giant to stop bullying a DOJ official into recusing himself from the government's antitrust actions against the company

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants.

YouTube TV subscribers lost access to channels including ESPN and FX after YouTube's agreement to carry programming from Walt Disney Co.

Leadership at the Mountain View, California, tech behemoth circulated a memo that reportedly showed the steps that the company will take before firing employees who are out of compliance with the company’s vaccine policy.

Google said it is delaying its required return-to-office plans that were scheduled to start Jan. 10 at the earliest for U.S. offices.

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are currently the only cloud service providers capable of meeting the requirements of the Department of Defense's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. The agency anticipates contract awards will be distributed in the third quarter of fiscal year 2022.

Several major websites, apps, and services, including Spotify, Discord, and Snapchat, experienced brief service interruptions on Tuesday afternoon during a global Google Cloud outage.