Google News

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary Google has averted a potential news block in Canada by agreeing to an annual payment of $74 million to the Canadian news sector. What Happened: Google and the Canadian government have come to terms regarding a disputed law...

In a surprising move, Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) has laid off dozens from its news team this week. This decision comes at a time when the role of online platforms in battling misinformation is increasingly under scrutiny. While the Google spokesperson confirmed the layoffs, they did not...

Eight years after shutting down, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) reopened Google News services in Spain on Wednesday.  What Happened: The company had, earlier in 2014, stopped its news services due to a Spanish rule that forced Google and other news aggregators to pay publishers...

The battle between news publishers and Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) kickstarted in Australia got further intensified as it made way into the U.S., Bloomberg reports. What Happened: Policymakers...

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google launched its News Showcase platform in the U.K. offering news paid for by it, CNBC reports. The move comes within a week after Google rolled out the News Showcase platform in Australia to bypass their content...

As part of Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) $1 billion investment in news, Google will start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers, the company said in a blog post. What Happened: Google News Showcase...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Sundar Pichai announced Thursday the tech giant’s initial $1 billion commitment to license news content for a novel service called Google News Showcase. What Happened: It is the company’s largest financial commitment to date to news...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said Monday it would have to “reluctantly” stop people in Australia from sharing local and international news on both its and subsidiary Instagram's social media platforms, should a draft law that mandates revenue sharing with news organizations...

Is there something wrong inside of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s headquarters? If you ask Jason Calacanis, the founder of Inside.com, there are many things that aren't right with one of the world's biggest and most visible companies. Alphabet hasn't released an...

According to a new report by The Financial Times, BP (NYSE: BP) may be on the verge of selling its Texas City refinery to Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC). Although the refinery has been for sale since February 2011, why is BP so desperate to sell a once profitable location to the competition?...