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Google will keep its employees working from home for at least another full year. Staff at the search giant — who were first sent home in March due to the coronavirus pandemic — are not expected to return in a large capacity until at least July 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal. The decision …

The House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel could release its report on antitrust allegations against four of the country’s largest tech juggernauts by late summer or early fall, senior committee aides said. The committee has received 1.3 million documents from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google thus far as it investigates whether the companies’ business practices hurt …

Slack shares tanked after Google announced new Gmail features designed to compete with the popular work-messaging app. The search giant announced this week that Gmail for businesses is getting a major upgrade which will see a slew of new features added to the email app. Corporate Gmail users will receive integration for Google Chat, Docs, …

Alphabet’s Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday. The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller …

ZeroHedge is back on Google’s ads platform after a several-week-long ban. The financial site, which is known for posting most of its articles under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, a fictional character played by Brad Pitt in the movie “Fight Club,” can once again tap into the search giant’s lucrative advertising money, a Google spokesperson confirmed. …

The feds are reportedly close to wrapping up their antitrust investigation of Google as they consider whether to bring a lawsuit against the tech giant. The US Department of Justice is waiting on a final set of documents before officials finish the probe, which is focused on Google’s dominance in online advertising, Reuters reported Friday. …

Google says it will pay to license content from select overseas publishers as scrutiny from US regulators mounts over its dominance over the news industry. The search giant said in a Thursday blog post that it will pay media groups in Germany, Australia and Brazil for “high-quality content for a new news experience launching later …

Justice Department officials will be meeting with multiple state attorneys general this Friday to discuss “next steps” in a potential antitrust case against Google, according to multiple reports. The meeting, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, will take place virtually between federal and state officials. On the agenda will be the scope …

The Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general will meet on Friday to discuss the scope of a possible antitrust suit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Federal and state officials will discuss how best to proceed with the suit, although it is not yet clear how many states …

Google is getting fat off the struggling news industry by using its position as the nation’s dominant search engine to force publishers into unfair agreements, according to a new research report. The Alphabet-owned internet company has become such a powerful force for driving Web traffic that it even dictates how news publications format their web …