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After nearly a decade in court, Google has agreed to pay $13 million in a class-action lawsuit alleging its Street View program collected peoples private data over wifi from 2007 to 2010. In addition to the moolah, the settlementfiled Friday in San Franciscoa…

Match Group spokeswoman Justine Sacco characterized this as an experiment to Bloomberg, saying that the firm "constantly" tests new features and that payment options which "benefit experience" were an example of this. We've asked Google for comme…

Google recently removed several apps from the Google Play Store after discovering they violated the Play Store terms of serviceand, more importantly, could be used as stalkerware. That doesnt mean theyre deleted from your Android device, though, so nows a gre…

Google today announced an update to YouTube Music on iOS and Android that will make it easier to seamlessly switch between merely listening to the audio and watching a song’s music video. To do so, you only have to tap a button at the top of the screen. This …

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Another wave of sketchy apps has been banned from the Google Play Store. This time around, the offending apps all came from one publisher, CooTek, who has been accused by the security firm Lookout of deploying the malicious adware BeiTaAd in its apps. Accord…

On Tuesday, Google vice president of public policy Karan Bhatia told members of the Senate Judiciary that the companys Project Dragonflya search engine for the Chinese market that was widely reported to involve huge concessions to state censors and protested …

Google employees stand outside the companys London offices during last years protests. Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Getty Images A Google employee who helped lead protests over the companys work for the military, its handling of AI ethics, and it…

You might not even need that keypad anyway if you're calling contacts you get in touch with often. When you hover over a contact's name in your call list, a phone icon will now show up -- just click it to call that particular contact. Finally, a new audio ico…

Google has never made a successful social network, but you have to give the company some credit for never giving up. After the shutdown of platforms like Orkut, Google Buzz, and Google+ (and the shuttering of messaging services like Allo and Google Wave) it a…