The Latest Breaking News from Alphabet Inc

The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.

The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court that social media companies in some cases can be held liable for promoting harmful speech, partially siding with a family seeking to sue Alphabet Inc.’s Google over a terrorist attack.

Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve a probe into controversial location-tracking practices that the Alphabet Inc. unit says it already discarded several years ago, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy settlement in US history.

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Renault SA is deepening its collaboration with Alphabet Inc’s Google in a bid to extend capabilities on remote software updates to new models, such as the electric Megane E-Tech and Austral.

Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, illegally cut off contract workers’ access to a spreadsheet about pay transparency, a union alleged in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board.

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was sliding an additional 1% at one point to a new 52-week low Wednesday after a big bearish day on Tuesday saw the stock fall 5.32%.

Pre-open movers U.S. stock futures traded mostly higher in early pre-market trade on Thursday after closing mostly lower in the previous session. The Nasdaq index dipped by more than 200 points on Wednesday following weak earnings results from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).