Google plans to get rid of cookies

Amazon has become the latest tech giant to clamp down on microblogging and social network service Parler, notifying it of plans to suspend its web hosting service on Sunday.

The US tech giant and a group of French newspapers said their agreement calls for payments made for showing content through online searches. The first-in-Euorpe pact follows several months of negotiations.

Australia wants Google to pay for displaying local media content. In return, the tech giant has threatened to disable its search engine in the country. Could this confrontation set a precedent?

The tech giant paid female engineers less than men in similar positions. Unfair practices meant Asians and women were also overlooked for engineering roles.

Topping Google's search rankings is the dream of online publishers far and wide. Germany's government found a shortcut to the summit for its new health website, but a court in Munich has dragged it back down for now.

France's president admits for the first time that French soldiers murdered a top Algerian independence figure then covered up the crime. In South Africa, a top sponsor of South Africa's Love Island TV series pulls out of the production following outrage over the predominantly white cast in a country where 80 percent of people are black. And finally, an anti-poaching unit in South Africa has set up smartphone surveillance in a nature reserve to invite everyone with an internet connection to watch out for endangered species at Kruger National Park.

The tech company has posted record profits for two straight quarters as homebound people use more of its services during the pandemic. Google's dominance in online search means its dream run is likely to continue.

A Russian regulator has given Google one day to delete banned content or face punitive measures. In a clampdown on tech giants, Moscow has said it wants to beef up its so-called internet sovereignty.

Germany's Federal Cartel Office is probing tech giant Google under amended competition laws. The antitrust authority now has powers to prohibit major digital corporations from engaging in anti-competitive practices.

France's competition watchdog fined the American tech giant €220 miillion ($267 million). The regulator said Google had given its own advertising products preferential treatment.

Sotheby's is auctioning "the ultimate NFT": the source code with which Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Due to the historical and unprecedented "relevance and cultural impact" of the item on sale, the auction house recognized it was impossible to put an estimate on it. The bid is already higher than than $2 million dollars, with days to go before the sale.

Google has launched a new website and feature to help those facing food poverty find free food in their local community.