All posts tagged "Alphabet"

From Alphabet to X, eight of the largest tech giants spent a record of $71 million combined on U.S. political lobbying in 2025, according to a new report from Issue One, a bipartisan nonprofit working to reduce the influence of money in politics.

“Big Tech is using every tool in the toolbox to gain access and influence in Trump's Washington,” said Michael Beckel, senior research director at Issue One and report co-author.

It’s the latest example of “pay-to-play politics” under President Donald Trump, the report says — highlighting how tech, artificial intelligence (AI) and social media companies spent nearly $330,000 each day Congress was in session in 2025, and came away with a series of wins around industry regulations. ...

Justice Department officials are considering a bid to break up Alphabet, the parent company of Google, according to a new report from Bloomberg News.

This comes a week after a landmark ruling from a federal judge that Google holds an illegal monopoly over the search engine business, due to distribution contracts with device manufacturers that make it the "default" search option on many devices.

This has a far-reaching impact, as advertisers depend on Google for traffic and tweaks to its algorithm can make or break websites and shape their content....

A federal court judge this week shot down Google’s attempt to scuttle a multi-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit accusing it of making an Orwellian grab of “potentially embarrassing” data from users’ “Incognito mode” and other private browsing. The three Californians and two others suing Google on behalf of themselves and tens of millions of other internet users claim Google captured the data despite promising it would not. Google, in its bid to get the case thrown out, argued in a March court filing that it “never made any such promise.” In her order in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Califo......

San Francisco (AFP) - US tech titans looking to the future are seeing growth take a beating in the face of foreign competition and a tough economy. Apple and Amazon shares were casualties on Thursday, and their respective quarterly earnings reports disappointed investors hoping for rays of sunshine on a dark economic landscape. Meanwhile, shares of Meta and Google-parent Alphabet have tanked after disappointing financial results this week. "This week will go down in the history books of earnings season as one of Big Tech's worst and ultimately could be a 'fork in the road moment' for the stalw......